The white women of colonial India wrote extensively; they maintained journals and diaries, wrote letters home, authored novels and penned their memoirs. This anthology brings together a fascinating collection of such writings written over the period 1820s–1920s, focusing on their relations with ‘native’ women.
The compilation draws on the experiences of medical missionaries, travellers, journalists and administrators’ wives and is organised around key sites of contact.
A comprehensive introduction by Indrani Sen places these writings in historical perspective.