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Introduction: Claims to Belong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Susan Pedersen
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 4: At Home in the Empire , October 2001 , pp. 447 - 453
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2 For which, see Kennedy, Dane, The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (Berkeley, 1996), chaps. 3 and 5Google Scholar.

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5 Again, this literature is now substantial, but for the cases mentioned here, see Sharpe, Jenny, Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text (Minneapolis, 1983)Google Scholar; Inglis, Amirah, “Not a White Woman Safe”: Sexual Anxiety and Politics in Port Moresby, 1920–1934 (Canberra, 1974)Google Scholar; Sayer, Derek, “British Responses to the Amritsar Massacre,” Past and Present, no. 131 (May 1991): 130–64Google Scholar.

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