Women of the Raj by MacMillan, Margaret - 1988

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. First Edition in clean dust jacket. Clean golden cloth boards with gold oval decoration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper. Illustrated with 57 wonderful photographs, prints. 256 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

The role of the women of the Raj was to create a replica of British Society in the face of almost insuperable difficulties. Exi8led to a strange land, surrounded by people whose language, customs and religion were mysterious and for the most part, alien, how did these women react and how did they live? 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.