Daughters of India - Hardcover

Wilson, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195685865 ISBN 13: 9780195685862

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Margaret Wilson's two novels and eight short stories set in India draw on her own experiences as a missionary in Punjab between 1904 and 1910. Daughters in India, first published in 1928, explores the relationship between the two main American characters, Davida Baillie, a missionary teachers (and thinly-veiled portrait of Wilson herself), and John Ramsey, her superior in the mission in Aiyanianwala, their work with the Christian and Moslem communities from the Flower Basti, and the breaking up of a kidnapping ring in the nearby village of Pir Khanwala. The novel is of particular interest to the postcolonial reader because it offers a broader perspective on the sociology of India in the early twentieth century than can be found in most Anglo-Indian (Raj) missionary novels of the time. Moreover, as an American and a missionary, Wilson was located on the margins of the Anglo-Indian society, a position which is reflected in the fresh perspective she offers on the imperial experience. This new edition of Wilson's Daughters of India, includes a detailed introduction, a chronology of Margaret Wilson, a map, an extensive explanatory notes which provide the reader with a useful critical commentary to the novel.

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About the Author:

Margaret Wilson served as the first woman Speaker at the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2005 2008, and was the first woman Law Dean and Professor of Law in New Zealand. She has received numerous Awards including the Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Life Member, Auckland Women Lawyer Association, and the Vic Taylor Distinguished Long-Term Contribution Award (Awarded by Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand) in 2011. She is currently a Professor of Law and Public Policy at University of Waikato.

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