In Custody

In Custody Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Desai, Anita. In Custody. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
  • Yaqin, Amina. "The Communalization and Disintegration of Urdu in Anita Desai's 'In Custody,'" in Morey, Peter, and Tickell, Alex, eds. Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation, and Communalism. Amsterdam: BRILL, 2005. Accessed July 20, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central.

  • Tripathi, J.P. "ANITA DESAI'S "IN CUSTODY": A STUDY IN THEMATIC DESIGN AND MOTIVE." Journal of South Asian Literature 21, no. 2 (1986): 204-07. Accessed July 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40874101.

  • D’Souza, Karen. "Enabling Modernisms: Discrete/Discreet Feminisms in Katherine Mansfield and Anita Desai." Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL), no. 38.2 (2020): 59-81. Accessed July 22, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26944128.

  • Prasad, Madhusudan. "Imagery in the Novels of Anita Desai: A Critical Study." World Literature Today 58, no. 3 (1984): 363-69. Accessed July 22, 2021. doi:10.2307/40139375.

  • Swain, S.P. "The Incarcerated Self And The Derelict House: HOUSE IMAGERY IN ANITA DESAI'S NOVELS." Indian Literature 39, no. 5 (175) (1996): 120-23. Accessed July 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24159205.

  • Hasan Abdullah. "Minorities, Education and Language: The Case of Urdu." Economic and Political Weekly 37, no. 24 (2002): 2288-292. Accessed July 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4412236.

  • Jasbir Jain. "Daughters of Mother India in Search of a Nation: Women's Narratives about the Nation." Economic and Political Weekly 41, no. 17 (2006): 1654-660. Accessed July 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4418143.

  • " In Custody and Beyond: A Conversation with Anita Desai ." Cairn. 7/21/21. <https://www.cairn-int.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_ETAN_623_0370>.
  • "In Custody." Postcolonial Web. 7/21/21. <http://www.postcolonialweb.org/india/desai/custodyov.html>.
  • Landow, Shoshana. "Male and Female Characters in Anita Desai's In Custody." Postcolonial Web. 7/21/21. <http://www.postcolonialweb.org/india/desai/sml6.html>.
  • Sharma, Narinder . "Duality of Illusion and Reality in Desai's In Custody." Purdue. 7/22/21. <https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1962&context=clcweb>.
  • Sharma, Anjali. "Anita Desai’s In Custody – A War ." The Criterion. 7/22/21. <https://www.the-criterion.com/V2/n3/Anjali.pdf>.
  • Sharma, Bhasha Shukla. "Anita Desai’s ‘in custody’: Unlocking the web of time and space ." Academic Journals. 7/22/21. <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJEL/article-full-text-pdf/F568B691355>.
  • Vanitha, S. "SELF-ALIENATION IN ANITA DESAI’S “IN CUSTODY”." International Journal of Research. 7/22/21. <http://ijrpublisher.com/gallery/74-february-887.pdf>.
  • "Urdu." 8/5/21. <https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/urdu>.
  • " Urdu Language – history and development." Unviersity College, London . 8/5/21. <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/atlas/urdu/language.html>.
  • " The History of the Urdu Language ." World Digital Library. 8/5/21. <https://www.wdl.org/en/item/9700/>.
  • Roy, Basudhara. "Breaking the Seals of Silence: Locating Female Voices in Anita Desai’s In Custody." 8/5/21. <https://www.thecho.in/files/Basudhara-Roy.pdf>.
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