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The Queen\'s Daughter in India

AuthorElizabeth W. Andrew and Katharine C. Bushnel
PublisherLife Span Publishers
Publisher2015
PublisherReprint
Publisher88 p,
ISBN9789381709559

Contents: 1. Cantonment life in India. 2. Seeking the outcast. 3. The habitations of cruelty. 4. The contagious diseases acts. 5. Pleading for the oppressed. 6. Some Anglo-Indian moral sentiments.

These queen’s daughters of India were prostitutes secured for British soldiers in the cantonments. This book is about horrible government brothels, their brutalizing and degrading examination and humiliation by physicians of opposite sex. It reveals how this report shook the consciousness of people and rulers in England and what measures were adopted. This book is also immensely useful to understand the dynamics of true nature and character of the British colonial rule in India. It is an essential read for womanhood of the world.

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