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

by Patrick Wheeler

From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started traveling in any 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 journals, others wrote letters, and for the first time Patrick Wheeler tells their story in this fascinating and colorful history,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473893275
• ISBN13: 9781473893276
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"