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Reading List on “Native” Consorts and the East India Company

Megan Eaton Robb

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Arondekar, Anjali. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009).

Beveridge, ​​H. “Old Places in Murshidabad, No. II,” Calcutta Review 95, no. 190 (October 1982).

Busteed, H. E. Echoes from Old Calcutta: Being Chiefly Reminiscences of the Days of Warren Hastings, Francis and Impey 2nd ed. (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Col, 1888).

Chatterjee, Indrani. Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Chatterjee, Nandini. “Muslim or Christian? Family Quarrels and Religious Diagnosis in a Colonial Court,” American Historical Review 117, no. 4 (October 2012): 1101-1122.

Dalrymple, William. White Mughals (New York: Penguin, 2003).

Evans, T. 2012. “The use of Memory and Material Culture in the History of the Family in Colonial Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 36 (2): 207–228.

Fisher, Michael. “Becoming and Making ‘Family’ in Hindustan,” in Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia, ed. Indrani Chatterjee (New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2004).

Fisher, Michael H. “South Asians in Britain up to the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” in Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora (New York: Routledge, 2013).

Finn, Margot and Kate Smith, East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 (London: University College London Press, 2018).

Michael Herbert Fisher, Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600–1857 (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004).

Ghosh, Durba. Sex and the Colonial Family: The Making of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Ghosh, Durba. “Decoding the Nameless: Gender, Subjectivity, and Historical Methodologies in Reading the Archives of Colonial India,” in A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, Modernity, 1660–1840, ed. Kathleen Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Harris, Katherine D. “Archive,” in Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture Edited by Benjamin Peters (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2016).

Higgs, E., and P. F. Radosh. 2013. “Quilts.” Journal of Family History 38 (1): 55–77.

Holtschneider, Hannah. “Narrating the Archive? Family Collections, the Archive, and the Historian.” Shofar Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019): para. 1.

Iftikhar, Rukhsana. “Cultural Contribution of Mughal Ladies,” South Asian Studies 25, No. 2 (Jul–Dec 2010): 323–339.

Ipsen, Pernille. Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Karam ʻAlī, Shāʼistah Ḵẖān, Tārīḵẖ-i Bangāl va Bihār sadah-ʾi hīzhdahum: Muẓaffarnāmah (Paṭnah: Ḵẖudā Baḵẖsh Oriyanṭal Pablik Lāʾibrerī, 1992), 239–40.

Khan, Abdul Majed. The Transition in Bengal: The Transition in Bengal: A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Leong, E. “Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household.” Centaurus; International Magazine of the History of Science and Medicine 55 (2) (2013): 81–103.

Mishra, Ratneshwar. History of Purnea, c. 1772–1793 (Calcutta: India Book Exchange, 1978).

Moran, Arik. “‘The Rani of Sirmur’ Revisited: Sati and Sovereignty in Theory and Practice,” Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 2 (2015): 302–335.

O’Hanlon, Rosalind.“Recovering the Subject: Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in Colonial South Asia.” Modern Asian Studies vol. 22, no. 1 (1988).</p>

Ong, Aihwa. “Cultural Citizenship as Subject Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States,” Cultural Anthropology 37 (1996).

Prasad, Pratima. Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination (London: Routledge, 2009).

Price, Kenneth. “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3:3 (Summer 2009).

Rothschild, Emma. The Inner Life of Empires (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).

Said, Edward. Orientalism (New York: Pantheon, 1978).

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “The Rani of Sirmur,” History & Theory 24, no. 3 (October 1985): 247–272.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in C. Nelson & L. Grossberg (eds) Marxism and Interpretation of Culture, ed. C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988).

Stoler, Ann. “Colonial Archives and the Art of Governance: On the Content in the Form,” in Refiguring the Archive, ed. Carolyn Hamilton et al. (Cape Town: David Philip, 2002).

Woodham, Anna. “We Are What We Keep: The ‘Family Archive,’ Identity and Public/Private Heritage,” Heritage & Society Vol. 10, No. 3 (2017).

Viswanathan, Gauri. Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).​​

Voss, Paul, and Marta Werner. Introduction. “Towards a Poetics of the Archive.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 32:1 (1999): i– vii.

Wheeler, Roxann. “Romanticizing Racial Difference: Benevolent Subordination and the Midcentury Novel,” in The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).


Other Digital Archiving Specialists and Resources:


1947 Partition Archive
Aanchal Malhotra’s Partition Archive
Anuradha Mathur
Baroque Topologies
Cabinet
Harvard Centre for Geographical Analysis
Jamaica Slave Revolt Project
Mukurtu
Pandit
Rekhta.org
Sarit
South Asia Open Archives
Stanford Spatial History Project
The Delivering Post project
The South Asian American Digital Archive
Torn Apart/Separados
XP Method
Zooniverse