Buy this book on-line MacMillan, Margaret : Women of the RajThames & Hudson, New York, 1988 ISBN 0500014205
256pp. B&W Illustrations How women tried to replicate British society in India, 8vo, Very Good in Very Good DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MacMillan, Margaret : Women of the Raj. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. MacMILLAN,MARGARET: : Women of the RajLONDON.THAMES & HUDSON,1988. ISBN 0500014205.
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The role of the women of the Raj was to create a replica of British society in the face of almost insuperable difficulties.Exiled to a strange land,surrounded by people whose language,customs and religion were mysterious and for the most part alien,and lacking the professional commitment that inspired the men and gave them natural contacts with Indians,how did these women react and how did they live? How did they adjust - if they adjusted at all - to life in bungalows,to the teams of servants,
to the repeated moves (in a bewildering variety of vehicles) that kept them from putting down roots,to heart-breaking separations from their children or their husbands,to the heat,illness,
loneliness and boredom,to holidays in hill-stations,and to the unforgettable landscapes of India?
Looking at the whole of Britain's three and a half centuries of involvement with India,but especially at the actual period of empire from the mid-nineteenth century to 1947,Margaret MacMillan provides answers,from the women's own letters,from memoirs and novels,
and from interviews with survivors, among them her own grandmother.The women's experiences - exotic,jolly,
humdrum,tragic - are further brought
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