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She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 – 1900

by Katie Hickman

The first British women to set foot in India did so in the very early seventeenth century, two and a half centuries before the Raj. Women made their way to India for exactly the same reasons men did – to carve out a better life for themselves. In the early days, India was a place where the slates of ‘blotted pedigrees’ were wiped clean; bankrupts given a cha

Publisher

Virago

Publication date

2021-08-21

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ISBN

9780349008257