Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial IndiaDwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the Indian National Congress. Her unpublished Family History (1935) stages the story of her parents' transnational marriage as a series of homes the family inhabited in