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High Courts, 58; Calcutta High Court, 181
Highland Light Infantry, 280
Hilary, Henry, 78
Hilary, Jean, 78–9, 86, 104–5, 199–200
hill stations, 91, 152, 185–201 see also names of hill stations
Himalaya, 20–1
Himalayas, 92, 165, 206, 270, 282, 285, 310
Hindus, 171, 217
Hingston, Clayton Alexander Francis (‘Hinkie’; Sheila Hingston’s father), 293, 294, 296, 299–300, 301, 303, 304–5
Hingston, Clayton William James, 293
Hingston (née Scroggie), Gladys (Glad; Sheila Hingston’s mother), 293–4, 295, 296, 297, 298, 301, 304
Hingston, Lieutenant-Colonel James, 293
Hingston (later Reade), Sheila Violet Lena, 292–306
Hodding, James, 232–3
hoghunting (pigsticking), 290–1
home, first, 256–64
Home Civil Service, 10, 57, 116
homosexuality, 42
Honourable East India Company see East India Company
Hood, Thomas, 18–19
Hooghly River, 73, 101
Horne, E.A., 168n
Horne, Rev. Francis, 143
Horne, Patience Winifred, 143–5
hornets, 90
horses, 66, 68, 101, 145, 164, 291
hot weather, 87–91
Hove, 38, 271
Howrah station, Calcutta, 76
Hughes (later Ormerod), Dorothy, 40, 211–13
Hughes, Dulcie, 39–40 and n, 211
Hugh Lindsay, 21
Hulbert, Jack, 99
hunting, 66, 145, 155, 293 see also hoghunting; shooting
Hussars: 4th, 120; 10th, 7; 20th, 156
Hyderabad, 270; Nizam of, 53, 112, 157, 169, 219
Hyderabad Regiment, XIX, 143
hyenas, 106, 276
hygiene, 263–4
IARO (Indian Army Reserve of Officers), 47–8, 50
Ibroxhill estate, 174
ICS see Indian Civil Service
illegitimate babies, 140
illness/disease, 1, 3, 6, 23, 80, 85, 86, 112, 113, 219, 242–9, 276, 278–9, 304–5 see also names of illnesses
Imperial Airways, 308n
Imperial Cadet Corps, 126, 129, 131, 134
Imperial Delhi Gymkhana Club, 106
‘Incorruptibles, The’, 57
independence movement, 170
Indian Army, 62, 171, 196, 211, 218 see also names of regiments
Indian Army Reserve of Officers see IARO
Indian Cavalry School, 251
Indian Civil Service (ICS), 10, 15, 29 and n, 36, 47, 49, 50n, 53, 57–62, 67, 74, 79, 81, 102, 105, 116, 170, 171, 176, 181, 182, 202, 203, 206, 211, 224, 228, 231–2, 265, 274, 297, 309
Indian Medical Service, 51, 240, 244, 287
Indian Mutiny (1857), 10, 198, 217–18, 252
Indian National Congress, 170
Indian Ocean, 21, 27, 51, 92
Indians, 82, 105, 166–72; princes/rulers, 125 and n, 126–7, 129, 131, 132, 137, 154–65; women, 34, 35, 66, 67, 83–4, 131, 150–1, 166–7, 169, 171–2, 174–5; see also servants
Indian tick fever, 70
Indore, 88, 157; Maharaja of, 156, 157
Innsbruck, 70
insects, 89–90 see also names of insects
Ireland, 293
Ireland-Jones, Mrs, 296
Irwin, Katherine (Kitty), 70–1
Irwin, Lord, 136
Islam, 118 see also Muslims
Jabalpur, Chaplain of, 287
Jack Ahoy, 99
jackals, 89, 90, 278
Jacob, Captain Arthur, 156–7
Jacob, Violet, 156–7, 158–9, 237
James (later Macfarlane) Iris, 34, 36–7, 72, 75, 171, 172, 233–4, 309–10
Jammu, 91
Jaora, Nawab of, 155, 156, 158
Jardine, Skinner & Co., 183
Jat Lancers, 152
jaundice, 235, 236
Jeffreys, General, 144
Jenkins, Owain, 81–2, 85
Jenkin, Yola, 144–5
Jenkins, Lady, 134
Jennings, Major, 116
jewels, 109, 125, 126, 129, 137, 157–8, 159
Jhabrapathan, 116
Jhelum River, 196, 199
Jodhpur, 237; Maharaja of, 24, 158
Jodhpur Club, Calcutta, 101
Johnson, Tony, 208
journals, ‘marriage’, 12 and n
Judge Advocate-General’s Department, 218
Jullundur, 196
Jumna River, 76, 268
jungle fever, 242–3
Justicetown, 70
Kadir Cup, 290–1 and n
Kadir jungle, 290
Kaiser I Hind, 10–11
Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service, 311
kalajuggahs, 152, 193
Kalat, 221; Khan of, 221, 223
Kalimpong, 91
Kanoor, 294
Kapurthala, 163, 164
Karachi, 69, 70, 74, 88, 308n
Karakoram range, 285
Kasauli, 238
Kashmir, 50n, 58, 70, 91, 121, 196–200; Maharaja of, 126, 132, 206
Kashmir Nursing Home, 198
Kashmir State Mountain Artillery, 230
Kaye, Sir Cecil, 106
Kaye, M.M., 106
Kensington, 12
Kenya, 140
Khilanmarg, 197
Khyber, 37, 50
Khyber Pass, 283
Kilcreene Lodge, 299
King, Mr, 187
King’s College, Cambridge, 60
King’s Own Royal Regiment, 213
King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 115
Kipling, Rudyard, 67, 166, 173, 186, 230, 271, 276; ‘East is East’, 166; ‘Gunga Din’, 166; Kim, 166; Plain Tales from the Hills, 105, 186; Stalky & Co., 15
kitchen arrangements, 250–1
Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl, 127, 128, 191
Knights of the Black Heart, Order of, 192–3
Kohat, 277
Komri Pass, 280
kraits, 246
Kranidis, Ruth, 11
K2, 197
Kumakarom, 38
Kumaon Hills, 75
Kurgah River, 289
Lahore, 49, 118, 129, 218 and n, 281
Lahore Week, 106
Lake Venna, 194
Lak Pass, 224
Lal Bagh, 157
Lancers, 9th, 127
Langham Hotel, London, 301
Langurs, 284–5
Lansdowne, Lord, 109, 114
Lavie (née Ross), Florence see Ross (later Lavie), Florence (Flossie)
Lavie, Lieutenant Leslie John Germain, 62, 64, 82–3, 91, 139, 204–5, 232–3, 260
Lavie, Mary (Mollie), 205
Lawrence, Sir John, 60 and n, 187
Lawrence, Walter, 98
League of Nations, 183
leave, 64–5
leeches, 276
Legislative Assembly (parliament of India, created in 1919) 183
Legislative Assembly (South Indian Parliament), 305
Leigh, Lord, 24
Leiter, Nancy and Daisy, 98–9
Leopard’s Valley, 197, 198
Leveson, 210
Le Zoute, 295
life expectancy, 34
Life Guards, 52
Lismore Castle, 205
Liverpool, Lord, 34n
lizards, 88, 258
Lloyd, Captain and Mrs, 287
Lloyd, Harold, 99
Lloyd, Mary, 197–9
Lloyd George, David, 51
Lock Hospitals, 67
locusts, 59
London, 10, 13, 42, 70, 171, 176, 183, 215, 271, 281, 308n
London Season, 46, 267
Lord W Bentinck, 2n
Love Affair, 53–4
Lowestoft, 37
Lowther Castle, 4–6, 7
Lucknow, 39, 48, 49, 111, 146, 198, 290, 293
Ludhiana (Loodianah), 187 and n
Lusitan
ia, 49n
Lutyens, Sir Edwin, 189
Lyallpur, 95 and n
Lydall, E.F., 171
Lytton, Lord, 129
Macdonald (née Anderson), Betsy see Anderson (later Macdonald), Betsy
Macdonald, Ramsay, 301
Macdonald, Tommy, 250, 284
Macfarlane (née James), Iris see James (later Macfarlane), Iris
McKnight, Meriel, 134–5
McLeish, Rowan Mary, 213–15
McPherson, Captain Herbert, 220–1
Madame Mombrey’s finishing school, Paris, 295
Madaripur, 59–60
Madden, Sir John, 27
Madden, Lady, 153
Madden, Ruby, 27, 38–9, 86, 87, 106, 126, 128, 129, 133–4, 141, 152–3, 188, 238–9
Madras: dinner held by governor of, 137–8; hospital in, 287, 288; Maharaja of Mysore in, 162; Ootacamund is hill station for, 194; presidency army, 217; social life in, 102–4, 290; taxidermy factory, 161; brief references, 9, 33, 58, 72, 74, 107, 213, 261, 279, 295, 297, 301, 302, 304
Madras & Southern Mahratta Railway, 102
Madras Club, 79n
Madras Guards, 290
Madras Infantry: 16th, 287–8; 20th, 232
Madras Mail, 91
Madras Native Infantry, 20th Regiment, 62
Madras Race Course, 104
Madras Regiment, 252
Madre, Comte de, 44
Mahabaleshwar, 91, 194
maharajas, 126–7, 154–65
Mahratta kingdom, 195
Maidstone, 69
mail, 22, 277
Malabar Hill, Bombay, 94
Malakund, 118, 242
malaria, 241, 245, 247, 280, 305
Mallinson, Robin, 196, 197
Maloja, 24, 44
Malvern, 272
Malvern Girls’ College, 37
Manali, 91
Manchester University, 203
Mantua, 30
Maples of London, 190
Mar and Kellie, Lord, 24
Markievicz, Countess de, 307n
Marlborough, 228
marriage, 2, 3, 6, 11, 60, 68, 139, 140, 150–1, 172, 230–4; mixed race, 34, 35, 150, 164–5, 166–7, 173, 174–5 and n
Marseilles, 22, 24, 25
Martyn, Margaret, 30, 96, 203–4
Martyn, Philip Docton, 203–4
Mary, Queen, 24, 129–30, 131
Mashobra, 111, 112, 119, 191–2
Maskelyne, Edmund (father and son), 9
Maskelyne, Elizabeth, 9
Maskelyne, Margaret, 9
Maskelyne, Nevil, 9n
Masters, John, 65, 200–1, 310
Mastung, 223, 226, 227
Maud, Queen of Norway, 83 and n
Maugham, Somerset, 301
Mauritius, 18n, 115
Mayfield, Penelope, 79
May Week balls, Cambridge, 100
MCC, 103
Mediterranean, 49 and n, 50, 53, 215
Meerut, 47, 48, 49, 50, 217, 290
Meerut Week, 106
Meet, the, 65
Mekran Levy Corps, 227
Menai Strait farm, 183
Menpes, Dorothy, 127 and n
menstruation, 86
Mho, 156
Middlesex Hospital, Medical School of, 287
Minchin, Colonel, 164
Minto, Lord, 89, 133, 170
Mirzapore camp, 177
missionaries, 68
Mitford, Colonel, 44
Moghuls, 106, 129
Mogok, 53
Mohmand region, 80
money, lack of, 232–3
Mongolia, 17, 18, 33
monkeys, 190, 276, 284–5
monsoon, 88, 91–3, 300
Montagu-Chelmsford reforms (1919), 170, 272–3
Morley-Minto reforms (1909), 170
mosquitoes, 111, 241
Mother India, 209
Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 51
Mount Lavinia, 99
mourning, 83, 113, 193
Munnar, 91
Munson, Margaret, 246
Muri, 199
muskrats, 252
Muslims, 83, 118, 171, 217
Musshidalad district, 228
Mussoorieon, 91
Muzaffarpur, 209
Mysore, 159, 279; Maharaja of, 111, 126, 155, 159, 162, 177, 296
Nagpur, 206, 272 and n, 273, 275; Bishop of, 275
Naini Tal, 75, 91, 194
Naldera, 123, 191
Naltar, 284
Nanga Parbat, 196–7
Napier, Major-General Charles, 58
Napoleon, 128
Natal, 123
Native Invalids, 175
natural disasters, 248–50
Neagle, Anna, 301
Neemuch, 100, 142
Nepal, 65
Nepean (née Ross), Alice, 204
Nepean, Major Herbert, 204
New South Wales, 32
New Years Day, 106–7
Nilgiri Hills, 10, 194
Nilgiri Railway, 260
Niven, David, 208
Noel, Susan, 295
Nori, Grace, 152
Northbrook, Lord, 186
North-West Frontier, 50n, 58n, 80, 92, 196, 242
Noyes, Lady Enid, 134
Noyes, Sir Frank, 134
Nubia, 22–3 and n
Nungumbaukaum, Madras, 104
Oberon, Merle, 208
O’Cock, Peggy, 219, 220
Olivier, Laurence, 208
O’Malley, L.S.S., 58–9
Oomer Hyat Khan, Sir, 268
Ootacamund (Ooty), 10, 91, 194, 214, 260, 296–7, 298, 299, 303
Ooty Club, 194, 297
Ooty Hunt, 194
Order of the Knights of the Black Heart, 192–3
Orissa, 58n, 176
Ormerod, Charles Maurice, 60–1, 79, 211–13
Ormerod (née Hughes), Dorothy see Hughes (later Ormerod), Dorothy
Ormerod, Hrefna, 79
Orsova, 38
Oxford: Balliol College, 228
Pains and Penalties Bill, 5n
Pandaul, 241
P&O, 20, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 37, 39, 41, 44–5 and n, 47, 49, 50, 146, 149
Pantheon House, Madras, 294
panthers, 116, 197, 276
Paper Chase Club, Calcutta, 101
Paris, 40, 214, 238, 289
Parliament, 301
Pasteur Institute, 238
Patel, Rose, 225
Paterson, Tom, 265
Pathancot, 121
Pathans, 68, 118
Patiala, 164, 165; Maharaja of, 158, 164–5
Patna, 243–4
Patterson, Zinnia, 70
Peliti’s restaurant, Simla, 186
Penang, 1
Penrose, Honor, 59, 171–2, 205–7, 239, 285
Penrose, Judith, 206
Pergami, Bartolomeo, 5n
perils, 241–55
Peshawar, 118, 151, 248, 283
Peshawar Club, 171
Phillips, Leila, 287, 288
pi-dogs, 89, 216, 244
pigsticking (hoghunting), 290–1
plague, 245–6, 247, 305
planters, 32, 52, 65
plantations, living on, 279–80, 284–5, 302–5, 309–10
poaching, 273–4
Poland, invasion of, 209
Police, 15
Pollard, Major, 141
Pollard-Lowseley, Sylvia, 206
‘polls’, 66
polo, 66, 233, 237–8, 281–2, 283
Poona, 77, 112, 143, 150, 194–6, 240, 274, 275, 276
Poona Season, 195–6
Poona Week, 268
Portal, Gervas (‘Squire’), 271, 272, 274–5, 276–7
Portal (née Butler), Iris see Butler (later Portal), Iris
Port Said, 17, 22, 23, 27, 28, 50, 81, 267
Port Sudan, 17
Potten End, 36
Powerscourt, Lord, 24
precedence, 29, 81–2, 159, 160, 309
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Presidency General Hospital, Calcutta, 247
prickly heat, 89 and n, 91
Pridmore Riley (later Welchman), Valerie, 96, 145–9
Private Secretaries to the Viceroy, 62–3, 109
Probyn’s Horse, 62
prostitutes, 13–14, 67, 68
protocol and formality, 81–3, 94–9, 135–6, 159
public schools, 56–7
Public Works Department, 102, 232, 251
Punjab, 58 and n, 60–1, 69, 74, 88, 93, 163, 165, 196, 218, 256, 266, 268
Punjab Light Horse, 123
Punjabi Regiment, 218, 223
Punjab University, 310
purdah, 171–2
Puri, 104
Purnea, 52
Pytchley Hunt, 206
Quaglino’s restaurant, London, 212
Queen’s College, Harley Street, 102
Queen’s Court, 113
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, 117–18, 129–30
Quetta, 50 and n, 75, 221, 223, 224, 225, 227–8
Quetta Club, 223
rabies, 89, 244–5
rail travel, 74–80
railway stations, 74, 75–6
Rajasthan, 38, 197
Rajputana, 59, 72
Rajputana Rifles, 197, 259
Ramkolah, 304
Ramsay, Colonel, 221, 227
Ranchi, 277
Rangoon, 53, 54, 74
Raschen, Adelaide, 69
Raschen, Maj, 69
Raschen, Sam, 69–71, 80, 95, 244–5
Ratlam, 155
rats, 79, 245, 287
Rawalpindi, 244
Rawalpindi, 29
Rawalpindi Week, 106
Reade, Diana, 297–8
Reade, George (Jerry), 297–82, 303, 304, 305–6
Reade, Helène, 305
Reade, Joan, 298, 299
Reade (née Hingston), Sheila Violet Lena see Hingston (later Reade), Sheila Violet Lena
Reading, Lady, 77, 186, 191, 192
Reading, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of 51, 77, 124, 158, 272
Red Fort, Delhi, 147
Redpath, Alexander, 248–9, 288–90
Redpath, Rosemary, 88, 248–9, 288–92
Red Sea, 21, 28, 45, 51, 53
Register of Calls, 96
Regulating Act (1773), 34
Relapsing Fever, 299n
Resident, First Class, 59
Retreat, The (Viceroy’s weekend cottage), Mashobra, 111, 123, 191–2
‘returned empties’, 3, 7, 40
Réunion, 115
Ricketts, Archie, 99
Ripon, Lord, 74
Robson, Flora, 208
Rogers, Ginger, 208
Ross, Ellen, 205
Ross (later Lavie), Florence (Flossie), 62, 64, 83, 139, 204–5, 260
Ross, Dr Hamilton, 204
Ross, Sir Ronald, 247
Rouse, Sibyl, 151
Rowton Houses, 120 and n
Royal Artillery, 142, 210, 230
Royal College of Surgeons, 13
Royal Corps of Armourers, 260
Royal Delhi Hunt, 136
Royal Engineers, 206
Royal Horse Artillery, 144
Royal Indian Navy, 208