Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess Book

List of Illustrations

1 Introduction: A Life of Passing 1

2 Ancestors: A Methodist, a Soldier, and a "Lady Not Entirely White" 11

3 A Company Childhood 29

4 Daughter of the Deccan 42

5 Love and Bombay, at Last 56

6 Metamorphosis: "A Life Sublimated above the Ordinary" 70

7 A Teacher and a King 88

8 A Job in a Palace 104

9 "The Noble and Devoted Women Whom I Learned to Know, to Esteem, and to Love" 118

10 Settled in Bangkok 136

11 The Paths to Good-bye 153

12 An American Writer 167

13 The Canadian Grande Dame 186

14 "Shall We Dance?": Anna and U.S.-Thai Relations 207

Appendix 1 The Magnificent Charter: How the British Got to India 225

Appendix 2 The Women of British India 235

Select Bibliography 245

Index 261