In the Guardianship of God

<p>This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. </p><p> </p><p>We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.</p><p> </p><p> We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><p> </p><p>Flora Annie Steel was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it.</p><p> </p><p>Flora was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. The birth of her daughter gave her a chance to interact with local women and learn their language. She encouraged the production of local handicrafts and collected folk-tales a collection of which she published in 1894.</p><p> </p><p>In 1889 the family moved back to Britain and she continued her writing there. Some of her best work according to the 1911 Encyclop��dia Britannica is contained in two collections of her short stories From the Five Rivers and Tales of the Punjab.</p><p> </p><p> She also wrote a popular history of India. John F. Riddick describes Steel's The Hosts of the Lord as one of the three significant works produced by Anglo-Indian writers on Indian missionaries along with The Old Missionary (1895) by William Wilson Hunter and Idolatry (1909) by Alice Perrin.</p><p> </p>