Both authors were married to members of the Indian Civil Service
and lived and travelled in India with their families for more than
two decades. The senior partner, Flora Annie Steel took a strong
interest in Indian life, learned to speak, read, and write Punjabi
and committed to improving the lives of the local native women. She
helped to establish schools and served on the Provincial Education
Board. She also wrote stories for children and novels including
her
best-known novel on the Indian Mutiny, On the Face of the Waters.
`Review from previous edition 'The cream of the crop of the recent
historical [coookery] reprintsThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and
Cook aimed to do for memsahibs what Mrs Beeton had done for their
stay-at-home sisters...Their mission, to create a domestic space
that was forever Wiltshire, throws a bright light on the larger
project of which they were part, that of running the British
empire.''
Kathryn Hughes, Guardian, 19/6/2010
`'fascinating, immensely detailed...a priceless insight into the
mindset and even the character of those women out there,imposing
their will and their ways amid the "alien corn" surrounding
them.''
Martin Rubin, Washington Times, 4/6/2010
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