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"The Greater Part of My Life Has Been Spent in India": Autobiography and the Crisis of Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002
- pp. 130-150
- 10.1353/bio.2002.0011
- Article
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British men and women in India linked the intimate personal events of their individual and family histories with the public, political questions of empire during the twentieth century. In their autobiographies they conflated the personal and the political to validate not only their own lives, but the role of British imperialism in India as well.