| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Mary A. Procida. Married to the Empire: Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883–1947. (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 246.

At the beginning of his disturbing 1936 essay, "Shooting an Elephant," George Orwell mentions that white European women in Burma were, in certain circumstances, likely to encounter the same anticolonial hostility that he regularly endured as an ostensibly powerful police officer. After acknowledging the presence of such women, however, Orwell reverts to the individual drama of the white man performing his lonely duty under the gaze of a subaltern crowd. Taking us well beyond Orwell, the late Mary A. Procida reconstructs the experience of the wives of British officials and officers and highlights the significant part they played in maintaining British rule in India.

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