TY - BOOK AU - Macfarlane, Iris TI - Daughters of the empire: : a memoir of life and times in the British raj SN - 9780195678123 U1 - 305.4092 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - British women KW - Women Biography N2 - The book tells of four generations of British women in India and Burma. By supporting their husbands they held together the greatest Empire on earth, to their private cost and pain. Based on a very rich collection of letters, diaries, and photographs, it is a story of class, snobbery, racism, but also suffering and courage, told in a brilliant and moving way ER -