The white women of colonial India wrote extensively. during their years of residence in this country, these women were prolific; they maintained journals and diaries, wrote letters home, authored novels and penned their memoirs. this anthology brings together a fascinating collection of such European women's narratives written over 1820s-1920s. the writers came from all walks of life:  'memsahibs' or colonial administrators' wives, journalists, evangelists, philanthropists, medical as well as 'Indianised' women involved in Indian nationalist politics.