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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Antoinette Burton. At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1998. Pp. xv, 278. $55.00.

In her prolific and diverse writings on the cultural interactions between Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton has established herself as a major scholar of British imperialism. With her deep knowledge of both British and Indian sources and of the burgeoning recent scholarship on imperialism, her grounding in feminist and deconstructionist theoretical frameworks, and her sharp analysis of the nuances of imperial rhetoric, Burton has succeeded in revising conventional historical assumptions about the workings of imperialism. 1

What makes Burton's examinations of imperialism of particular note is that she has located her studies "at the heart of the empire," in Britain and not in the colonies. Challenging the conventional binary view of Britain as separate from "the empire," she supports the recent interpretations of British domestic history as fundamentally shaped by and integral to the colonial world. In The Burdens of History: British Feminism, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865–1915 (1994), for example, she showed how intertwined with and exploitative of campaigns to "improve" the status of Indian women the British women's suffrage movement was. In her new study, she makes the argument of the inseparability of British domestic and imperial history all the more explicit and convincing. . . .

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