In the 30 years following 1857 a wealth of material written by women on India emerged. This anthology illustrates the progression of imperialist and feminist attitudes and includes the writings of Josephine Butler, Millicent Fawcet, Dorothea Beale, Mary Carpenter, Flora Annie Steel, Annette Ackroyd Beveridge, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Martineau and Annie Besant. These texts include evaluations of Indian social history and Indian women, while on a different level they provide an insight into the perspectives and cultural backgrounds of the writers themselves.