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In 1811, Maria Nugent accompanied her husband, General George Nugent, on his posting as commander-in-chief in India. After a dizzying six months at the head of Calcutta society, she embarked on a 14-month tour of northern India, traveling to the very edge of the imperial frontier. Lady Nugent's journal offers windows into the rarely glimpsed domestic worlds of both colonial households in British India and the zenanas of north India's most powerful Indianrulers.
List of contents
- Contents List
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Lady Nugent: A Global Chronology
- A Note on the Text
- Part 1: Voyage Out and Calcutta: June 1, 1811-June 31, 1812
- Part 2: Tour of the Upper Provinces: July 1, 1812-August 9, 1813
- Part 3: Calcutta and Voyage Home: August 10, 1813-June 18, 1815
- Appendices
- A. Gen. Nugent Seeks the Office of Commander-in-Chief
- 1. Gen. Nugent to Lord Grenville, 22 May 1806
- 2. Gen. Nugent to Lord Grenville, 24 January 1811
- B. Letters Home
- 1. Gen. Nugent to Lord Temple, March 1812
- 2. Lady Nugent to Lady Temple, 23 April 1812
- 3. Gen. Nugent to Lord Buckingham, 15 August 1812
- C. Arrangements for the Care of the Nugent's Children
- 1. 'Memoranda for Miss Dewey []', 13 June 1811
- 2. Miss Dewey to Lady Temple, 17 April 1812
- 3. Lady Temple to Lady Nugent, 18 April 1812
- 4. Gen. Nugent to Lord Temple, 7 December 1812
- 5. Lady Nugent to Lady Temple, 7 December 1812
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editor
About the author
Ashley L. Cohen teaches eighteenth-century British and transatlantic literature in the Department of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Summary
The wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), Lady Nugent could travel extensively and meticulously observed the ways the British imagined themselves in the Empire. Her journal, a significant historical treatise of that time, provides an insider's account of the varying notions of citizenships established by the British colonial rule.
