Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Map of India ix
The Viceroys of India xi
Prologue 1
Intorduction 9
1 'Champagne has been known to allay sea sickness when all else failed' The Voyage Out 17
2 'Happy hunting-ground of the single girl' The Women Who Went Out 32
3 'Kisses on the boat deck' Love at Sea 44
4 'A £300-a-year man-dead or alive' The Men They Met 55
5 'Welcome to India' Arrivals 72
6 'A hell of a heat' The Climate 85
7 'Parties, parties, parties' The Social Whirl 94
8 The Viceroy's Daughter Elisabeth Bruce 108
9 'There are so many "Ladies"' Viceregal Entertainments 125
10 'I told him it was only the moonlight' Courtship 139
11 'It would be a pleasure to be in his harem, I thought' Maharajas 154
12 'Us and them' Brits and Indians 166
13 'I thought my heart was going to jump out of my body' Grace Trotter 173
14 'Where every Jack has someone else's Jill' The Hills 185
15 '"No" would have been unthinkable' Engagement 202
16 Daughter of the Raj Bethea Field 216
17 'Colonels must marry' Marriage 230
18 'No one will want to marry me now!' Perils 241
19 'As I inspected ours I sighed a bit' The First Home 256
20 "But what about horses? And Polo? And Parties?' Iris Butler 265
21 'Just lift up your skirts and you'll be all right' Up Country 278
22 'Cheerio, old girl' Sheila Hingston 292
Epilogue 307
Acknowledgements 313
Bibliography 315
Index 319