The Road to Chandrapore
Eric Stokes, 17 April 1980
Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics
by Kenneth Ballhatchet.
Weidenfeld, 199 pp., £9.50, January 1980,0 297 77646 0 Show More
by Kenneth Ballhatchet.
Weidenfeld, 199 pp., £9.50, January 1980,
Queen Victoria’s Maharajah: Duleep Singh 1838-1898
by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand.
Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £9.95, February 1980,0 297 77656 8 Show More
by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand.
Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £9.95, February 1980,
“... the Mutiny had consorted perfectly readily with Europeans keeping Indian mistresses, like Sir Charles Metcalfe, or Indian wives, like General Wheeler of Cawnpore fame, had now to bow before the dictates of sexual apartheid. It was a sign of the power stucture under threat and in the first stages of decline. Even so, there were remarkable ... ”