Olivia in India (Annotated)

Olivia in India is a finely observed travel novel cast largely in the form of intimate letters, following a young Scottish woman's encounter with British India and the social world of the Raj. Its charm lies not in melodrama but in attentive description: domestic rituals, railway journeys, heat, color, landscape, and the delicate codes of Anglo-Indian society. Written in a lucid, conversational st...