Patrick Wheeler: 1 book
Ribbons Among the Rajahs
A History of British Women in India Before the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started traveling in any numbers to the East Indies, mostly to accompany husbands, brothers or fathers. Very little about them is recorded from the earlier years, about the remarkable journeys that they made and what drove them to travel those...
