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  Baker, Beatrice, 37–8, 97, 105

  Baker, Henry, 37

  Balliol College, Oxford, 228

  Balmer Lawrie, 81

  Baluchistan, 50n, 220

  Bamfield, Veronica, 17, 18, 41, 310

  Bandipur, 281

  Bangalore, 37, 99, 144, 150, 280

  Bangor, 176

  Bannu, 283

  Bareilly, 152

  Barkeley-Smith, Rupert (‘Gappy’), 59, 168–9, 171, 206, 207

  Baroda, Gaekwar of, 158

  Barrackpore (Barrackpur), 114, 120, 293

  Barrett, Evelyn, 155, 156, 250–1, 262

  Barton, Pete, 259–60

  Barton, Ruth, 53, 259–60

  Basra, 277

  bats, 88, 258

  Battye, Stuart, 242

  Bayley, Vernon, 283

  Bayley, Viola, 283–4

  Bay of Bengal, 92, 102

  Bay of Biscay, 21, 24, 30, 37

  Beames, John, 60, 62

  bearers, 261, 263

  bears, 197, 198, 283

  Beatrice, Princess, 112

  Bedford, 9th Duke of, 64

  Bedford, George Russell, 10th Duke of, 64

  Bedford, Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of, 63–4

  Bedford, Mary Russell (née Tribe), Duchess of see Tribe (later Russell), Mary du Caurroy

  Bedford School, 56

  bees, 90

  Belgium, 289

  Bell, Gertrude, 99, 125

  Belvedere, Calcutta, 204

  Benares, 8, 118, 129

  Bengal, 58, 59–60, 61, 67, 72, 88, 137, 160, 176, 204

  post of Governor General created, 34

  Bengal Army, 174, 217

  Bengal Chamber of Commerce, 181

  Bengal Infantry, 3

  Bengal Lancers, 61

  Bengal Medical Service, 33

  Bengal Native Infantry, 10th, 293

  Bentinck, Lord William, 187

  Beresford, Lord William, 164–5

  Berhampore, 228, 229

  Berkshire Regiment, 272

  Bhopal, Begum of, 131

  Bihar, 58n, 65, 92, 176, 209, 249, 252, 263, 276, 284

  Bingham, Maude, 131

  bison, 280, 297

  Bisset, Sir William, 118

  Black, Dorothy, 213

  Black Watch, 193

  Blane (later Wood), Minnie see Wood (née Blane), Minnie

  blister-fly, 90

  boars, wild, 290–1

  Bombay: East India Company sends women to, 2; experience of arriving in, 72; impact of Suez Canal on journey time to, 10; plague spreads from, 245; Poona as hill station for, 194, 195; presidency army, 217; prostitutes in, 68; reception of Lord and Lady Elgin in, 108; steamers between Suez and, 21, 22; brief references, 18, 38, 46, 50, 54, 58, 73, 74, 94, 100, 117, 129, 137, 152, 206, 208, 209, 211, 213, 259, 260, 267, 270, 272, 276

  Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian Railway, 261

  Bombay Midnight Missions, 68

  Boote (later Trotter), Sarah Honoria, 175

  Bourne, Hilda and Jim, 254–5

  Bowen, Annette, 102–3, 159

  Bowen, Charles Henry Croasdaile, 102

  boxwallahs see businessmen

  Boyer, Charles, 54

  Boyle, Vicars, 217

  Brassey, Florence, 132

  Brighouse, 60

  Brighton, 7

  British Army, 10, 15, 41, 56, 57, 58, 62, 64–5, 67–8, 81, 232 see also names of regiments

  Brittany, 40

  Britten, Anna, 3, 4

  Britten (later Corbett), Charlotte, 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7

  Britten, George, 3, 4

  Britten, Mary, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7

  Britten, Thomas, 3, 4

  Brooke, Sylvia, 141

  brothels, 67, 68

  Brown, Claude, 139

  Brown, Stewart, 145

  Bruce, Christian, 110, 114

  Bruce (later Babington Smith), Lady Elisabeth (Bessie), 97, 108–24, 129–30, 242

  Bruce, Elsie, 109

  Bruce, Veronica, 110, 119

  Bryan, Charles, 164, 165

  Bryan, Florrie, 164, 165

  bubonic plague, 245–6, 247, 305

  Buck, Edward (‘Bucky’), 270

  bungalows, 68, 69, 80, 256–8

  Bunji, 280

  Burford, Lord, 113

  Burma, 10, 53, 58n, 213, 277

  Burma Rifles, 220

  Burma Shell Oil Company, 103, 107

  Burton, Colonel, 160

  Burzil Pass, 288

  businessmen, 68–71, 81–2

  Bute, Lady, 24, 130, 141

  Butler (née Smith), Ann (Iris Butler’s mother), 265, 266, 270, 271

  Butler, Austen ‘Rab’, 38, 266, 269, 270

  Butler, Dorothy, 265–6, 270

  Butler, Sir Harcourt, 187, 265 and n, 267

  Butler (later Portal), Iris, 38, 169, 196, 265–7

  Butler, Jock, 266

  Butler, Montagu (Iris Butler’s father), 38, 265, 268, 270, 271–2, 274, 275

  Byculla Ball, 134

  Byron, Geoffrey, 43

  Byron, Mabs (‘Aunt Mabs’), 28, 43

  Cairo, 21, 271

  Calais, 214

  Calcutta: annual migration to Simla from, 187–8; climate, 87–8, 89, 92, 93; earthquake, 118; Elisabeth Bruce’s life as Viceroy’s daughter in, 109–10, 111, 112–13, 113–4, 119–20; exclusion of Indians, and Britons born in India, from government social functions in, 35; experience of arriving in, 73–4; Fort, 198, 251; a journey to Sialkot from 78; prostitutes in, 68; seat of government moves to Delhi from, 132, 262; social life in, 101–2; Trotter family in, 175–6; weekends away from, 104–5; brief references, 4, 6, 10, 52, 54, 72, 75, 76, 79, 81, 117, 129, 143, 145, 146, 181, 183, 185, 199, 204, 228, 229, 247, 266, 283, 284

  Calcutta Club, 170, 174

  Calcutta High Court, 181

  Calcutta Light Horse, 101, 183

  Calcutta Port Trust, 78

  Calcutta Season, 97, 113–14, 119

  Calcutta Week, 106

  calling cards, 94–6

  Cambridge, 79, 100, 266; King’s College, 60; Trinity College, 116

  camels, 222

  Cameron, Captain, 133–4

  Campbell-Martin, Monica, 91, 92, 93, 98, 247, 249, 283

  Canning, Lady Charlotte, 87, 88, 89, 92, 241

  Canning, Charles, 1st Earl of, 88

  Cape Colony, 18n

  Cape of Good Hope/Cape route, 2, 18, 19, 21

  Cape Town, 115

  Carey Evans, Olwen, 51

  Carey Evans, Thomas, 51

  Carnarvon, 176

  Caroline, Queen, 5 and n

  Carroll, Mike, 208

  Cassels, Seton, 206, 285

  Cassels, Sylvia, 206, 207

  caste system, 83, 133, 240

  Cat’s Paw, The, 99

  cavalry, 62

  Cavalry Club, London, 171

  Cavalry Regiment, 3rd, 210

  Cecil Hotel, Delhi, 146

  census (1851 and 1861), 11

  Central Provinces, 58n, 271, 272

  Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), 10, 32, 103

  Chamberlain, Field Marshal Sir Neville, 194

  chaperoning, 98–9, 269

  Charlotte, Queen, 217

  Charlotte, Princess, 5n

  Cheltenham College, 56

  Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 63

  child mortality, 33

  children, 33–4, 35–6, 266, 292–3, 295 and n, 308

  China, 5

  China, 45

  Chitty, Mrs, 134

  cholera, 86, 243–4 and n, 245, 247

  cholera belts, 27, 86

  chota peg, 27, 260

  Chouillet de Jassey, Marguerite Lucie (Bébé), 40–1

  Christmas, 87, 114, 273

  chummeries, 68, 69

  Churchill, Winston, 120

  Church Missionary Society, 37

  circumcision, 167 and n

  civet cats, 90, 106

  Civil and Military Gazette, 49
, 165

  Clandeboye, Lord, 177, 178, 179, 180

  climate, 85–93

  Clive, Robert (later Lord Clive of Plassey), 9, 34

  clothes, 22, 26–7, 28, 33, 39, 81–2, 82–3, 85–6, 97, 108, 109, 111, 113–14, 119, 122, 123, 130, 135–6, 154, 156, 238, 260, 261, 266–7, 281, 295–6, 298

  Club of Western India, 274–5

  clubs, 79–80, 235–6

  and Indians, 162, 170–1

  coaling, 28, 267

  cobras, 253

  cockroaches, 89

  Cohen, Lady, 118

  Collett, Clara, 12

  Collett-White, Captain Harold Edwin, 144, 145

  Colombo, 32, 33, 38, 52, 54, 99, 213

  Contagious Diseases Act (1864), 67

  Cooch Behar, Maharaja of, 119

  Cook, Henry, 236–7

  Corbett, Lady Augusta, 6

  Corbett (née Britten), Charlotte see Britten (later Corbett), Charlotte

  Corbett, Louisa, 7

  Corbett, Lieutenant Stuart, 1, 2, 6–8

  Corbett, Rev. Stuart, 1, 6

  Cornwallis, 208

  Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis 34, 302

  Coronation Durbar: 1902–3, 27, 125–9; 1911/12, 24, 44, 130–2, 141

  corsets, 27, 86

  cotton cloth, 68

  Council of India, 183

  Council of State, 262

  Country Life, 298

  courtship, 139–53

  Coward, Noël, 301

  Crawford, Joan, 107

  cricket, 164

  Crofton, Olive, 254–5

  Crowe, Mrs, 153

  Cunningham, Henry Stewart, 189 and n; The Chronicles of Dustypore, 189, 301

  Cursetji Sukhlaji Street, Bombay, 68

  Curzon, Alexandra Naldera, 191 see also Curzon daughters

  Curzon, George, 1st Marquess, 90, 98, 123, 125, 127–8, 158, 160–1n, 190, 191, 193

  Curzon, Lady Mary, 90, 98, 127–8, 191, 193

  Curzon daughters, 132 see also Curzon, Alexandra Naldera

  Cyprus, 18n

  Dacca, 176, 181

  Dakuria Lakes, 101

  Dal Lake, 196, 199

  Darjeeling, 91, 119, 120, 193–4

  Darjeeling Hill Railway, 193–4

  Darjeeling Mail, 193

  Dasera Durbar (1933), 159

  David, Prince of Wales, 51

  Deccan, the, 43

  Deccan Horse, 210

  Delhi: dust in, 87; durbars held in, 125–9, 130–2; replaces Calcutta as the capital, 106 and n, 132; Viceroy House (by Lutyens), 106, 134–5, 136; brief references, 41, 77, 146, 147, 187, 189, 213, 268, 270

  Delhi boils, 242

  Delhi Week, 87, 106, 203

  De Lisle, General Sir Henry Beauvoir, 246

  dengue fever, 247–8

  dental treatment, 283

  Devonshire Regiment, 146; 11th, 194

  Dholpur, 165; Maharaja of, 158

  Diamond Harbour Route, 101

  Dinapur, 217

  diphtheria, 241, 247

  disease see illness/disease

  District Officer, 58–9, 60

  Diver, Maud, 80, 187, 192, 203, 308

  Diwali, 38, 87

  Dobson, Austen, 39

  Dobson, Mary, 39

  Dogra Regiment, 17th, 196

  dogs, 89, 197, 216, 244–5 and n

  Douglas, Olive, 94–5

  Doveton College, Calcutta, 259

  Downing Street, 228

  Dragoon Guards, 4th/5th, 43, 210

  Dranghadra, 172

  Drawing Room, 113–14, 119

  Drinkstone, 143

  Dublin Horse Show, 295

  Du Boulay, Alice, 13

  Du Boulay, Freda, 133

  Du Boulay, Rev. James, 13

  Du Boulay, Jim, 133

  Du Boulay, Professor Robin, 13

  Dufferin, Lady, 64, 88, 93, 132, 190

  Dufferin, Lord, 64, 132, 177, 190

  Dunlop-Smith, James, 265

  Dunne, Irene, 54

  Dupleix, Joseph, 34 and n

  Durbars: 1858, 10; 1876, 129; 1902/3, 27, 125–9; 1911/12, 24, 44, 129–32, 141; 1933, 159

  Durham, Lord, 131–2

  dust storms, 93

  Dyer, General, 170

  dysentery, 241

  earthquakes, 118, 243–6

  East India College, 56

  East India Company, 1, 2–3, 3–4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 18, 19, 21, 34–5, 41, 55, 56, 82, 102, 105, 166–7, 174, 175 and n, 193, 217

  Eden, Emily, 255

  education, 11, 13, 34, 56–7, 63

  Education, Health and Lands, Department of, 268

  Edward VII, King, 125, 158; as Prince of Wales, 158

  Edward VIII, King, 183

  Egypt, 18n; Pasha of, 21; see also names of places

  Elephant Dance, 273

  elephants, 126, 128, 158, 159, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 273, 279, 285, 290, 291, 297

  Elgin, Constance, Countess of, 85–6, 108–9, 111, 112, 113, 114, 122, 129–30

  Elgin, James Bruce, 8th Earl of, 170

  Elgin, Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of, 97, 108–9, 109–10, 111, 112, 113, 114, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 129

  Ellerman, City and Hall, 69

  Elliot, Lady Eileen, 133

  Elliot’s Beach, 103

  engagement, 202–15

  enteric fever, 237

  entertainments, viceregal, 125–38

  Eton, 56, 116, 272

  Eton dinner, 117

  Eugenie, Empress, 10, 158

  Eurasians, 34, 52, 173–4, 175, 269–70, 294 see also Trotter, Grace Minna

  Evans, Florence, 22–4, 260

  Evans, Joseph, 254

  Evans, Jimjack, 119

  Exmouth, 295

  Exshaw, Mabel, 209–10

  Famine Fund, 116

  famines, 240–1

  fancy dress balls/parties, 25, 103, 132, 141, 223, 224

  FANYs, 205–6

  Fayrer, Sir Joseph, 33

  Fellowes, Ronnie, 130

  Ferozpur River, 197

  Field (later Williams), Bethea, 30–1, 75–6, 88, 96, 136–7, 186–7, 192–3, 216–29

  Field, Catherine, 218

  Field, Colonel Charles, 47

  Field, Charles William (father of Bethea and Violet), 218, 226, 227, 228

  Field, George, 217, 218

  Field, Mary (mother of Bethea and Violet), 47, 218, 224–5

  Field (later Acheson), Violet, 47, 48–50, 220–1, 223, 224, 225, 226, 259, 311

  Field, William, 217

  fighting, 116, 118–19, 226, 248 see also Indian Mutiny

  Firpo restaurant, Calcutta, 228

  First World War (1914–18), 37, 40, 47, 48–9 and n, 78, 243, 294

  Fitzroy, Yvonne, 158, 161, 303

  Flaherty, Robert and Frances, 279

  flannel, 85–6

  flying/flights, 308 and n

  Forbes, Rosita, 158

  Foreign and Political Department, 50, 232

  Forest Hill, 1, 3, 7

  Forestry Department, 102, 267

  Forestry Service, 15

  formality and protocol, 81–3, 94–9, 135–6, 159

  Forster, E.M., 166, 167–9

  A Passage to India, 166, 167–8

  Fort William, Bengal, 203

  France, 289 see also names of places

  Fraser, Lady, 74

  Free School Street, Calcutta, 68

  Fremlin, Marjorie (‘Billie’) Gladys, 37, 278–81

  Fremlin, Maud (Billie’s mother), 37, 279

  Fremlin, Ralph (Billie’s father), 37, 279–80

  Friend of India, The, 265

  Frontier Constabulary, 283

  furniture, 232, 257

  Galle Face Hotel, Ceylon, 32, 33, 99

  Gallipoli, 266

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 167, 170

  Ganges delta, 73, 101, 237

  Ganges plain, 188

  Gangtok, 91

  gardeners, 256

  Gardner’s hors
e (2nd Royal Lancers), 271, 272

  Gauntlett, Miss, 44

  George IV, King, 5n

  George V, King, 24, 125, 136n

  George VI, King, 125, 129–30, 131, 183

  Germany, 47, 49n, 209, 297; U-boats, 49 and n, 277

  Gilgit, 248–3, 285–90

  Gillin, Sir Henry, 89

  Glasgow, 261, 278

  Glyn, Elinor, 160–1n

  Godden, John, 97

  Godden, Rumer, 97, 194, 203, 310

  Godolphin, 9

  Gokal (bearer), 267, 270

  Golconda, 220

  Gonds, 269

  Goodwood, 289

  Gorgeous Hussy, The, 107

  Goschen, George, 116

  Gough, Hubert, 53, 258, 259

  Goullet, Margaret, 4

  governesses, 11, 14

  Government House, 83; Bombay, 108; Calcutta, 83n, 111, 112, 113, 120, 170; Madras, 94, 96, 137–8, 162, 296; Nagpur, 273, 275; Ootacamund, 297

  Government of India, 81 and n, 181, 183, 268, 269

  Grant, Harry, 230–1, 285, 286

  Grant (née Hardy), Lucy Elinor see Hardy (later Grant), Lucy Elinor

  Grantchester, 100

  Grass Hills, 298

  Gratton, Claudine, 17, 18, 38, 83, 99, 107, 149–50, 151–2, 208–9

  Gray, Douglas, 290–1

  Gray, Mary Clementina, 293

  Great Australian Bight, 33

  Great Game, 15, 119

  Gregson, Podge, 172, 210–11

  Gregson (née Hanson), Violet see Hanson (later Gregson), Violet

  Greig, Charles, 52

  Grenadier Guards, 63

  Gribbon, Nigel St George, 213–15

  Gulmarg, 91, 196–7, 198–9, 285

  Gurez valley, 282

  Gurkhas, 65, 151, 226

  Gwalior, 77; Maharani of, 120

  Hackney, 12

  Hague, the, 40

  Haileybury, 56

  Hall, Henry and Margaret, 232

  Hall, Margery (‘Magda’), 152, 237

  Hamilton, Arthur, 275, 276

  Hamilton, Lieutenant-Colonel Claude, 27

  Hamilton, Duke and Duchess of, 24

  Hamilton, John (‘Ham’), 208–9

  Hamilton, Olivia, 281–2

  Hammersley-Smith, Ralph, 152, 237

  Hangu, 277–8

  Hanson, Sir Francis, 42

  Hanson, Pearl, 42

  Hanson (later Gregson), Violet, 28, 42–3, 50–1, 94, 172, 210–11, 239, 257–8

  Happy Valley set, 140

  Hardinge, Lady, 132

  Hardy, Major-General Frederick, 39

  Hardy, Jessie, 39

  Hardy (later Grant), Lucy Elinor, 39, 193, 230–1, 285–6

  Hardy, Willie, 39, 230

  Harpur Trust, 56

  Harrow, 56

  Hart, Desirée, 66, 73–4, 77–8, 241–2

  hawking, 270

  Hayling Island, 213

  Henry (later Allen), Joan, 51, 149, 196, 247, 249

  Henry, John, 209–10

  Henry of Battenburg, Prince, 112–13

  hierarchy, 81–2, 141–2 see also precedence

 

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