Ribbons Among the Rajahs: A History of British Women in India Before the Raj

"Evokes life for upper-class British women [in India] . . . .Extensive quotes from letters tell the women's story in their own words." —Who Do You Think You Are magazine

From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started traveling in 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 huge distances. Some kept jour...