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Memsahibs - British Women in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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Memsahibs - British Women in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and
sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they'd ever
experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a
perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India
offered a chance to fling off the shackles of Victorian social
mores. The word 'memsahib' conjures up visions of silly
aristocrats, well-staffed bungalows and languorous days at the
club. Yet these women had sought out the uncertainties of life in
Britain's largest, busiest colony. Memsahibs introduces readers to
the likes of Flora Annie Steel, Fanny Parks and Emily Eden,
accompanying their husbands on expeditions, travelling solo across
dangerous terrain, engaging with political questions, and recording
their experiences. Yet the Raj was not all adventure. There was
disease, and great risk to young women travelling alone; for
colonial wives in far-flung outposts, there was little access to
'society'. Cut off from modernity and the Western world, many women
suffered terrible trauma and depression. From the hill-stations to
the capital, this is a sweeping, vividly written anthology of
colonial women's lives across British India. Their honesty and
bravery, in their actions and their writings, shine fresh light on
this historical world.
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