A lively, social history based on memoirs, letters and diaries of the women seeking husbands in the Raj's heyday, highlighting the discrepancies between their privileged backgrounds and their frequently difficult lives in far-off regions once their goal was achieved. Perhaps unwittingly by underlining the polarity between the British and the Indian and the former's wasteful expenditure to maintain prestige, It serves as a marker to show how the world and attitudes have changed in so short a time.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 70 Autumn 2013 ) |
