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Wicked Women of the Raj: European Women Who Broke Society Rules and Married Life

Wicked Women of the Raj: European Women Who Broke Society Rules and Married Life

Younger, Coralie

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Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 8172234546
ISBN13: 9788172234546
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: Jan 20 2020
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Except for the odd woman captured by pirates and sold into a Mughal harem, the first European women to enter India owed their presence to the Portuguese, in the 16th century, and later to the East India Company -- in the expectation that they would marry and provide solace to lonely European traders and merchants. During India's cold weather season, women would sail out from England to India to plunder its plentiful storehouse of bachelors, regardless of the dangers of the tropical climate and a culture that bore no resemblance to the one they had known at home.

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