Married to the empire

In Married to the Empire Mary A. Procida provides a new approach to the growing history of women and empire by situating women at the center of the practices and policies of British imperialism. Rebutting interpretations that have marginalized women in the empire this book demonstrates that women were crucial to establishing and sustaining the British Raj in India from the High Noon of imperialism in the late 19th Century through to Indian independence in 1947.