The latter part of the book deals with the 1857 Great Mutiny. Hickman attributes its causes more to the effects of evangelical missionaries and the Doctrine of Lapse (under Governor-General Dalhousie) rather than the increased presence in India of European women. At all events, it was a horrific episode, and the massacres of British women and children make almost unbearable reading. Many of the women who survived were true heroines, and some told their stories in graphic detail. The advent of direct rule, known as The Raj, brought the British memsahib into greater prominence as hierarchy and protocol replaced the freewheeling days of ‘John Company’ and its frequently amoral nabobs.

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饥饿的国家：食物、饥荒和现代印度的形成

本书的后半部分讲述了 1857 年的大兵变。希克曼将其原因更多地归因于福音派传教士和失效学说（达尔豪斯总督领导下）的影响，而不是欧洲妇女在印度的人数增加。无论如何，这是一个可怕的插曲，英国妇女和儿童的大屠杀几乎让人无法忍受。许多幸存下来的女性都是真正的女英雄，有些人用生动的细节讲述了她们的故事。随着等级制度和礼节取代了“约翰公司”的随心所欲的日子及其经常不道德的小伙子，直接统治的出现，即所谓的“拉吉”，使英国的 memsahib 变得更加突出。