CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Map of India

The Viceroys of India

Prologue: ‘I know you will think me mad’

Introduction

1: ‘Champagne has been known to allay sea sickness when all else failed’: The Voyage Out

2: ‘Happy hunting-ground of the single girl’: The Women Who Went Out

3: ‘Kisses on the boat deck’: Love at Sea

4: ‘A £300-a-year man – dead or alive’: The Men They Met

5: ‘Welcome to India’: Arrivals

6: ‘A hell of a heat’: The Climate

7: ‘Parties, parties, parties’: The Social Whirl

8: The Viceroy’s Daughter: Elisabeth Bruce

9: ‘There are so many “Ladies”’: Viceregal Entertainments

10: ‘I told him it was only the moonlight’: Courtship

11: ‘It would be a pleasure to be in his harem, I thought’: Maharajas

12: ‘Us and them’: Brits and Indians

13: ‘I thought my heart was going to jump out of my body’: Grace Trotter

14: ‘Where every Jack has someone else’s Jill’: The Hills

15: ‘“No” would have been unthinkable’: Engagement

16: Daughter of the Raj: Bethea Field

17: ‘Colonels: must marry’: Marriage

18: ‘No one will want to marry me now!’: Perils

19: ‘As I inspected ours I sighed a bit’: The First Home

20: ‘But what about horses? And polo? And parties?’: Iris Butler

21: ‘Just lift up your skirts and you’ll be all right’: Up Country

22: ‘Cheerio, old girl’: Sheila Hingston

Epilogue

Photographic Insert

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

 

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