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Line 33: ==Early life== ===Youth: 1863–93=== Margaret Murray was born on 13 July 1863 in [[Kolkata\|Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], then a major military city inand the capital of [[British Raj\|British India]].{{sfnm\|1a1=Williams\|1y=1961\|1p=433\|2a1=Drower\|2y=2004\|2p=110\|3a1=Sheppard\|3y=2013\|3p=2}} An [[Anglo-Indian people\|Anglo-Indian]], she lived in the city with her family: parents James and Margaret Murray, an older sister named Mary, and her paternal grandmother and great-grandmother.{{sfn\|Sheppard\|2013\|p=2}} James Murray, born in India of English descent, was a businessman and manager of the [[Serampore]] paper mills who was thrice elected President of the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce.{{sfnm\|1a1=Drower\|1y=2004\|1p=110\|2a1=Sheppard\|2y=2013\|2p=6}} His wife, Margaret (née Carr), had moved to India from Britain in 1857 to work as a [[missionary]], preaching [[Christianity]] and educating Indian women. She continued with this work after marrying James and giving birth to her two daughters.{{sfnm\|1a1=Drower\|1y=2004\|1p=110\|2a1=Sheppard\|2y=2013\|2pp=8–10}} Although most of their lives were spent in the European area of Calcutta, which was walled off from the Indian sectors of the city, Murray encountered members of Indian society through her family's employment of ten Indian servants and through childhood holidays to [[Mussoorie]].{{sfn\|Sheppard\|2013\|pp=3–4, 13}} The historian [[Amara Thornton]] has suggested that Murray's Indian childhood continued to exert an influence over her throughout her life, expressing the view that Murray could be seen as having a hybrid transnational identity that was both British and Indian.{{sfn\|Thornton\|2014\|p=5}} During her childhood, Murray never received a formal education, and in later life expressed pride in the fact that she had never had to sit an exam before entering university.{{sfnm\|1a1=Williams\|1y=1961\|1p=434\|2a1=Oates\|2a2=Wood\|2y=1998\|2p=9}}

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