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Title: A woman's lot throughout the British Raj
Review: Like 'em or loathe 'em, memsahibs played a vital role in the maintaining of the British Raj. This book is packed with first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, that "tell it how it was" - frightening or exhilarating, uncomfortable or exotic, depending on each woman's imagination and strength of character. Quotations (invariably hilarious or naive)from magazines, periodicals or "How to ...." manuals throw further light on the socially complex, often perplexing, but always busy lives that the women of the Raj had to live.My husband was a "child of the Raj" and in reading this to him he is reminded of so much in his early years.The photos add immensely to the author's picture of life then; snaps from family albums - all intimate and particular.
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