An anthology of the writings by the often overlooked women of the Raj, many of whom flourished in India – Fanny Parks, Emily Eden et alia. A fascinating counterpoint to the stereotypical view of the stuffy ‘memsahib’.
Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India
(author)
£30.00
Edition:Hardback978178738708916/06/2022
Categories: 02. Books for Christmas 2022: History, Books for Christmas 2022, History
Tags: Empires & Colonialism, Feminism, India, South Asia
From a Bookshelf nearby
-
He left his young family in the '60s for sex, drugs, and enlightenment with the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh; he would reappear from time to time, bringing chaos in his wake.
-
Forster is always undoing, and no less so in this account of the remote princely court of Dewas in Madhya Pradesh, where he visited and worked as private secretary to the Maharajah in the ea... read more
-
The Pavilion in the Clouds
Hardback £14.99 -
The Swedish dynamo has many hard borders to negotiate as she tries to travel the length of the southern watershed of the Himalayas.