Long before the Raj, British women were sailing to India to trade, perform, paint, bake and reinvent themselves. We review Katie Hickman's She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India, a lively history that recovers three centuries of forgotten lives, from a seventeenth-century cloth trader to survivors of 1857. We look at what the book gets right about the memsahib stereotype, and where its reliance on British voices leaves India itself in the background.

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