Adventures of the early spice girls
HISTORY She-Merchants, Buccaneers And Gentlewomen: British Women in India by Katie Hickman (Virago £20, 400 pp) A superb spectacle was seen across Northern India in 1838: exotic figures riding elephants and horses, followed by some 12,000 soldiers and servants. They travelled around India and the whole tour took a leisurely 18 months. At the head … Read more