Ian Stone: Canal irrigation in British India: Prespectives on technological change in a peasant economy. (South Asian Studies, 29.) xiv, 374 pp., front. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1984. £30.

1986 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-604
Author(s):  
Bobert W. Bradnock
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
South Asian ◽  
British India ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Canal Irrigation ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
South Asian Studies ◽  
Stone Canal ◽  
Peasant Economy

MEMSAHIBS AND THE “SUNNY EAST”: REPRESENTATIONS OF BRITISH INDIA BY MILLICENT DOUGLAS PILKINGTON AND BERYL WHITE

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renate Dohmen
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
British India ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Water Colour ◽  
South Asian Studies

Millicent Pilkington, the daughter of a Lancashire industrialist in her early twenties, arrived in India in December 1893 and returned to England December 1894. We know about her trip, or her Year's Frivol in the Sunny East as she calls it, from the sumptuous album orné or commonplace book she compiled filling it with water colour sketches, photographs, autographs, dinner invitations, newspaper clippings, etc. The material is carefully arranged over forty-five album pages, is often framed by elaborate, hand-painted decorative borders, many of them in an Indian style. We know of the album because it was deposited in the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge University by a descendant.

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