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    Allen, Charles (edits).   A GLIMPSE OF THE BURNING PLAIN. £12.00    
      Leaves from the Indian Journals of Charlotte Canning.   170pp. Charlotte Canning was wife of the Governor General who died in India in 1861. The book draws from her journals, letters, drawings and watercolours.   Very good in very good dw. Owner's name.   1986 First edition, Michael Joseph.
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    Allen, Charles (edits).   A GLIMPSE OF THE BURNING PLAIN. £14.00    
      Leaves from the Indian Journals of Charlotte Canning.   170pp. Charlotte Canning was wife of the Governor General who died in India in 1861. The book draws from her journals, letters, drawings and watercolours.   Bookplate. Otherwis fine in fine dw.   1986 First edition, Michael Joseph.
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    Allen, Joan   'MISSY BABA' TO 'BURRA MEM'. £10.00    
         153pp. Card covers. Photographs in b/w. She grew up in a Bihar plantation and, after an eventful war, lived in Assam where her husband was Political Officer.   Fine.   1998 First edition, BACSA (28).
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    Anon.   LETTERS OF AN INDIAN JUDGE to an English Gentlewoman. £10.00    
         255pp.   Fine.   1970 Reprint, Peter Davies.
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    Anon.   LETTERS OF AN INDIAN JUDGE to an English Gentlewoman. £10.00    
         255pp.   Fine in very good dustwrapper.   1940 Reprint, Peter Davies.
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    Anon.   LETTERS OF AN INDIAN JUDGE to an English Gentlewoman. £5.00    
         255pp.   Very good. Some spotting to edges. Owner's name.   1940 Reprint, Peter Davies.
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    Barr, Pat.   THE DUST IN THE BALANCE. £10.00    
      British Women in India 1905-1945.   186pp. Index. 42 b/w photographs.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1989 First edition, Hamish Hamilton.
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    Beaumont, Winifred.   A DETAIL ON THE BURMA FRONT. £12.00    
         160pp. Map. A nursing sister evokes service in the Burma campaign 1944-46.   Very good in edge-worn dustwrapper.   1977 First edition, BBC.
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    Bird, Isabella.   THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE. £10.00    
      The Malayan Travels of a Victorian Lady.   384pp. Index. 16 engraved illustrations. Folding map. Card covers. Facsimile reprint of 1883 original. Stamped 'damaged' but damage not apparent.   Very good indeed.   1990 Oxford University Press, Singapore.
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    Bumiller, Elisabeth.   MAY YOU BE THE MOTHER OF A HUNDRED SONS. £5.00    
      A Journey among the Women of India.   307pp. Index. 22 b/w photographs.   Fine in fine dw.   1990 First edition, Random House, New York.
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    Crooke, W (edits).   OBSERVATIONS ON THE MUSSULMAUNS OF INDIA £25.00    
      Descriptive of their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions made during a Twelve Year Residence in their Immediate Society by Mrs Meer Hassan Ali.   442pp. Index. Facsimile reprint. The author was the English wife of a Lucknow noble and was in India from 1816-28.   Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper.   1973 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Karachi.
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    de Courcy, Anne.   THE FISHING FLEET. £12.00    
      Husband-Hunting in the Raj.   335pp. Index. 24pp of excellent archive photographs in b/w.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   2012 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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    Devi, Gayatri Maharani of Jaipur.   A PRINCESS REMEMBERS. £12.00    
      The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur.   335pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs.   Very good in very good dw with faded spine panel..   1976 First edition, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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    Diver, Maud.   THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN INDIA. £85.00    
         259pp. Collected magazine articles. Much on domestic responsibilities. In the original olive cloth. Chapters on Cornelia Sorabji, Anandabai Joshee and Ramabai Sarasvati. Date only, Sept 16 1910, on front endpaper.   Very good indeed. An outstanding copy.   1909 First edition, Blackwood.
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    Duncan, Sara Jeanette.   A SOCIAL DEPARTURE. £5.00    
      How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves.   476pp. Includes journeying through India and Japan. Novel of liberated Victorian women. Pocket edition.   Rear hinge slack.   No date, Nelson.
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    Dyer, Helen S.   PANDITA RAMABAI. £13.00    
      The Story of her life.   170pp. 29pp of b/w photographs. Much on work by Indian Christians for famine relief. In the original decorated brown boards.   Very good. Hinges slack.   1900 First edition, Revell, New York.
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    Dyson, Ketaki Kushari.   A VARIOUS UNIVERSE. £12.00    
      A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent 1765-1856.   406pp. Index.   Very good in very good dustwrapper.   1978 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Dyson, Ketaki Kushari.   A VARIOUS UNIVERSE. £10.00    
      A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent 1765-1856.   406pp. Index.   Hinges slack but a sound copy.   1978 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Emanuel, Gladys (Mrs John Grossmann).   INDIAN SONGS OF PASSION. £12.00    
         37pp. Paper covered stapled booklet. Poems of Edwardian eroticism imagining the desires of women in Indian legend.   Very good indeed.   1908 Second edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta.
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    Fernandes, Leela.   PRODUCING WORKERS. £10.00    
      The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills.   199pp. Index.   Fine.   1997 First edition, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi.
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    Godden, Rumer.   GULBADAN. £12.00    
      Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court.   158pp. An account from the memoirs of the daughter of the Emperor Babur. Illustrated in colour with 45 full-page Indian and Persian miniatures.   Fine in very good dw.   1980 First edition, Macmillan.
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    Graham, Maria.   JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN INDIA. £450.00    
         viii + 211pp. 4to. Colour frontispiece and 15 engraved b/w plates, 2 folding. In handsome later binding with leather spine and corners.   There is very minor worm damage which the binder has repaired with rice-paper overlays, nowhere affecting legibility. Otherwise very good indeed.   1812 First edition, Archibald Constable.
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    Hall, Gordon Langley.   GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. £14.00    
      The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma,   255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812.   Fine in torn dw. Owner's name.   1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia.
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    Hall, Gordon Langley.   GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. £16.00    
      The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma,   255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812.   Fine in very good dw.   1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia.
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    Hickman, Katie.   SHE-MERCHANTS, BUCCANEERS AND GENTLEWOMEN. £14.00    
      British Women in India.   390pp. Index. 4 maps. 25 illustrations in colour and b/w.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   2019 First edition, Virago.
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    Hickman, Katie.   DAUGHTERS OF BRITANNIA. £12.00    
      The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives.   192pp. Index. 29 b/w illustrations. Many references to Catherine Macartney, Ella Sykes and Diana Shipton in Kashgar. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page.   Fine in fine dw.   1999 Second impression, Harper Collins.
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    Hodges, Nan P. and Hummel, Arthur W. (edit).   LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF A MACAO LIFE. £25.00    
      The Journel of Harriett Low, Travelling Spinster.   In 2 vols. 834pp. Index. Card covers. Part One: 1829-1832, Part Two: 1832-1834. Young woman fron New England follows her merchant father to China.   Fine. A lovely set.   2002 The History Bank, Woodville WA, US.
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    Jeffery, Patricia and Roger,   DON'T MARRY ME TO A PLOWMAN! £5.00    
      Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India.   294pp. Index. Card covers.   Fine.   1996 Westview Press, Colorado and Oxford.
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    Kaye, M.M.(edits).   THE GOLDEN CALM. £10.00    
      An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi.   220pp. Reminiscences of life before the Mutiny, lavishly illustrated with many full-page colour reproductions of pages from `The Dehlie Book' commissioned by Sir Thomas Metcalfe from the best local Indian artists including a six page fold-out of a Moghul procession.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1980 First edition, Webb & Bower.
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    Khan, Shaharyar K.   THE BEGUMS OF BHOPAL. £13.00    
      A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India.   276pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations.   Fine in fine dw.   2000 First edition, Tauris.
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    MacMillan, Margaret.   WOMEN OF THE RAJ. £5.00    
         256pp. 57 illustrations. Life for women in British India. Full bibliography and index.   Fine in fine dustwrapper..   1988 First edition, Thames & Hudson.
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    MacMillan, Margaret.   WOMEN OF THE RAJ. £5.00    
         256pp. 57 illustrations. Life for women in British India. Full bibliography and index.   Very good in fine dustwrapper.   1988 First edition, Thames & Hudson.
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    Margaret, The Ranee of Sarawak.   GOOD MORNING AND GOOD NIGHT. £55.00    
         308pp. Index. Autobiography of the wife of Charles Brooke, the White Rajah.   Boards a little marked and spine edge just starting to fray.   1934 First edition, Constable.
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    Mayo, Katherine.   MOTHER INDIA. £10.00    
         391pp. Index. A study of marriage and the position of women   Very good indeed.   1931 Reprint Cape.
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    Mayo, Katherine.   MOTHER INDIA. £5.00    
         391pp. Index. A study of marriage and the position of women   Very good. Bookplate.   1927 Reprint Cape.
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    Mayo, Katherine.   MOTHER INDIA. £5.00    
         440pp. Index. 41 b/w photographs. A study of marriage and the position of women   Front hinge slack and spine lettering faded but othewise very good.   1927 First US, Harcout, Brace, New York.
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    Mayo, Katherine.   MOTHER INDIA. £13.00    
         440pp. Index. 41 b/w photographs. A study of marriage and the position of women   Very good in very good dw.   1927 First US, Harcourt, Brace, New York.
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    Mazumdar, Shudha.   MEMOIRS OF AN INDIAN WOMAN. £10.00    
         227pp. Index.   Very good in very good dw.   1989 M.E.Sharp, New York.
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    Merrick, Henrietta Sands.   SPOKEN IN TIBET. £85.00    
         198pp. Index. Map. 29 b/w photographs. American woman treks from Darjeeling to Gyantse. In the original black cloth.   Very good indeed apart from the number 39 on the front endpaper in colour. Neat bookplate   1933 First edition, Putnam's, New York.
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    Middleton, Dorothy.   VICTORIAN LADY TRAVELLERS. £13.00    
         182pp. 30 photographs.   Fine in very good dw.   1965 First edition, Routledge.
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    Mukta, Parita.   SHARDS OF MEMORY. £5.00    
      Woven Lives in Four Generations.   214pp. 20 photographs. Stories of a Gujerati family from India to Kenya and beyond.   Fine in fine dw.   2002 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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    Nanda, Savitra Devi.   THE CITY OF TWO GATEWAYS. £12.00    
      The Autobiography of an Indian Girl.   278pp. Vivid account of a Punjab childhood.   Fine in very good dw.   1950 First edition, Allen & Unwin.
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    Narasimhan, Sakuntala.   SATI. £5.00    
      A Study of Widow Burning in India.   202pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1990 First edition, Penguin India
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    Narasimhan, Sakuntala.   SATI. £5.00    
      A Study of Widow Burning in India.   202pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations.   Very good in very good dustwrapper.   1990 First edition, Penguin India
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    Parkes, Fanny.   BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. £10.00    
      The Journals of Fanny Parkes.   361pp. Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple. In card covers.   Fine.   2005 Eland.
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    Parkes, Fanny.   BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. £5.00    
      The Journals of Fanny Parkes.   361pp. Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple. In card covers.   Fine.   2002 Eland.
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    Parkes, Fanny.   BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. £5.00    
      The Journals of Fanny Parkes.   361pp. Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple. In card covers.   Fine.   2005 Eland.
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    Pemble, John (edits).   MISS FANE IN INDIA. £12.00    
         246pp. Index. Journal and letters from India 1836-1837, by the daughter of the C. in C.. Interesting domestic detail and gossip - much on the Eden sisters.   Fine in fine dw.   1985 First edition, Alan Sutton.
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    Postans, Marianne.   KUTCH £16.00    
      or Random Sketches taken during a Residence in one of the Northern Provinces of Western India.   283pp. Map. 7 plates (1 folding) in colour. Facsimile reprint of 1839 original.   Fine.   2001 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi.
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    Ray, Bharati (edits).   FROM THE SEAMS OF HISTORY. £10.00    
      Essays on Indian Women.   294pp. Index.   Fine in fine dw.   1995 First, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
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    Rijnhart, Dr. Susie C.   WITH THE TIBETANS IN TENT AND TEMPLE. £76.00    
      Narrative of Four Year's Residence on the Tibetan Border and of a Journey into the Far Interior.   406pp. Index. 13 photographs and a folding map. American missionary who escaped from Tibet after the death of her infant son and loss of her husband on attempt to reach Lhasa.   Very good. Some bubbling of cloth over the boards but a bright, clean copy.   1901 Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh.
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    Robinson, Jane.   ANGELS OF ALBION. £5.00    
      Women of the Indian Mutiny.   298pp. Full-size paperback edition.   Fine.   1996 Viking.
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    Robinson, Jane.   ANGELS OF ALBION. £5.00    
      Women of the Indian Mutiny.   298pp. Index. 34 illustrations.   Fine.   1996 First edition, Viking.
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    Robinson, Jane.   ANGELS OF ALBION. £10.00    
      Women of the Indian Mutiny.   298pp. Index. 34 illustrations.   Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.   1996 First edition, Viking.
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    Robinson, Jane.   WAYWARD WOMEN. £5.00    
      A guide to women travellers.   344pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations. 6 maps. Paperback edition. An indispensible bibliography and commentary on women's travel writing up to the 1980s.   Fine.   1991 Oxford University Press.
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    Russell, Mary.   THE BLESSINGS OF A GOOD THICK SKIRT. £5.00    
      Women Travellers and Their World.   239pp. Index.   Very good in very good dw. Owner's rubber stamp marks.   1986 First edition, Collins.
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    Saha, B.P.   BEGAMS, CONCUBINES AND MEMSAHIBS. £5.00    
         148pp. Index. Essays on 17 women, Indian and British who influenced political affairs.   Fine in fine dw.   1997 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi.
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    Saiyid, Dushka.   MUSLIM WOMEN OF THE BRITISH PUNJAB. £25.00    
         145pp. Index.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1998 First edition, Macmillan.
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    Sarasvati, Pundita Ramabai.   THE HIGH CASTE HINDU WOMAN. £31.00    
         119pp. Portrait frontispiece.   Very good. Spine rubbed.   1887 Philadelphia.
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    Sattin, Anthony (edits).   AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN INDIA. £14.00    
      The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler 1828-1858.   229pp. Index. Her account of Mutiny experiences. She was present through the siege of Delhi, giving birth in an ammunition cart.   Lacks front endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper.   1986 First edition, Oxford University Press.
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    Shields, Nancy K. (edits).   BIRDS OF PASSAGE. £14.00    
      Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801.   328pp. Index. Edited journals of the independent-minded wife of the Governor of Madras and her travels with her daughters.   Fine hardback in very good dustwrapper.   2009 First edition, Eland.
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    Shields, Nancy K. (edits).   BIRDS OF PASSAGE. £10.00    
      Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801.   328pp. Index. Paperback edition. Edited journals of the independent-minded wife of the Governor of Madras and her travels with her daughters.   Fine.   2016 Eland.
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    Tharu, Susie and Lalita, K.   WOMEN WRITING IN INDIA. £5.00    
      Volume II. The 20th Century.   641pp. Index. An anthology from all genres of literature. Card covers.   Very good.   1993 Pandora.
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    Tisdall, E.E.P.   MRS. DUBERLY'S CAMPAIGNS. £17.00    
      An Englishwoman's Experiences in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny.   224pp. Index. Based on letters from the wife of a Hussar Captain who was with him through the Crimea and Mutiny campaigns.   Very good indeed   1963 First edition, Jarrolds.
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    Trench, Charles Chenevix.   MY MOTHER TOLD ME. £5.00    
         274pp. Accounts of travels of his mother and grandmother in Edwardian times to India, Japan, San Francisco etc.   Very good in chipped dw.   1968 reprint, Blackwood.
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    Trollope, Joanna.   BRITANNIA'S DAUGHTERS. £5.00    
      Women of the British Empire.   224pp. Index. 47 illustrations.   Very good in very good dustwapper.   1983 First edition, Hutchinson.
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    Vadgama, Kusoom (edits)..   AN INDIAN PORTIA. £21.00    
      Selected Writings of Cornelia Sorabji 1866-1954.   702pp. Index. Many b/w illustrations. Edited from her letters and private papers.   Fine in fine dw.   2011 First edition, Blacker Limited.
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    Venning, Annabel.   FOLLOWING THE DRUM. £5.00    
      The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present.   372pp. Index. Illustrated in colour and b/w.   Fine in fine dw.   2005 First edition, Headline.
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    Vibart, Colonel Edward.   THE SEPOY MUTINY as Seen by a Subaltern. £120.00    
      From Delhi to Lucknow.   308pp. Index. Includes as an appendix of 29pp on 'The Outbreak at Meerut' by Colonel A.R.D.Mackenzie and another of 20pp on 'How the Electric Telegraph Saved India' by P.V.Luke. A third appendix of 28pp gives an account by a lady of her escape from Delhi. This is the London first edition but with 'Scribners' in gilt at foot of red cloth spine.   Very good indeed. An excellent copy in the original cloth.   1898 First edition, Smith, Elder and Scribner's, New York.
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    Weber, Thomas.   GOING NATIVE. £10.00    
      Gandhi's Relationship with Western Women.   406pp. Index. Card covers.   Fine.   2011 Rolli Books, New Delhi.
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    West, Margaret.   CATCHING THE BAG. £5.00    
      Who'd be a Woman Diplomat?   381pp. A career in the diplomatic service in the British High Commission in Delhi and later in Rhodesia. Recalled through letters home. She was in India 1949-53 and visited Kashmir and Nepal.   Fine in fine dw.   2000 First edition, The Pentland Press.
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    Wheeler, Patrick.   RIBBONS AMONG THE RAJAHS. £10.00    
      A History of British Women in India before the Raj.   246pp. Index. 29 b/w illustrations.   Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper.   2017 First edition, Pen & Sword History.
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    Williamson, Margaret D.   MEMOIRS OF A POLITICAL OFFICER'S WIFE IN TIBET, SIKKIM AND BHUTAN. £16.00    
      In collaboration with John Snelling.   240pp. Maps and index. Card wrappers. Her husband had been Consul General in Kashgar and served as political officer responsible for relations with Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet. They married in 1933. Illustrated with family photographs.   Fine.   1987 First edition, Wisdom Publications.
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    Wolff-Wilson, Alison.   A FEATHER ON THE TIDE. £5.00    
         234pp. 19 b/w photographs. A memoir of world travels with much on India with military husband from 1938 to 1943.   Very good in very good dustwrapper.   1985, First edition, Alan Sutton, Gloucester.
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