![]() ![]() The book portrays their dilemma in being in charge in a very different land, and talks about the two types of people who came over to do the Queen’s work : some who are contemptuous of the country bumpkin natives and some who genuinely are interested in knowing what makes the subcontinent tick. Even though it was written in the seventies, the author spent a lot of time in colonial India as the daughter and wife(?) of the British rulers. It does not fall victim to the ‘Englishman’s view’ of India that many authors of the seventies fell prey to.įirst the attitude. ![]() But reading it as a person with a completely different background, and in a very different time,it still resonates. I like this book.I think it serves the intended English audience for the time for which it was written. ![]()
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