This August, Virago Modern Classics republished two of Attia Hosain’s books on the 60th anniversary of her influential novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column. Attia Hosain is an important yet relatively obscure figure of South Asian literary history, compared to her contemporaries Anita Desai and Bapsi Sidhwa . Hosain was born in Lucknow in 1913. While her father had studied at Cambridge University, her mother had established an institute for women’s education and welfare in Lucknow. She got her education from Lucknow’s Isabella Thoburn College and was also fluent in Arabic and Persian. Her family subscribed to progressive ideas and so did her husband. "Hosain evokes the
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