India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan
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About Flora Annie Steel. She was the daughter of George Webster. In she married Henry William Steel, a member of the Indian civil service, and for the next twenty-two years lived in India, chiefly in the Punjab, with which most of her books are connected.
India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan
When her husband's health was weak, Flora Annie Steel looked after some of his responsibilities. She acted as school inspector and mediator in local arguments. She was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. The birth of her daughter gave her a chance to interact with local women and learn their language. She encouraged the production of local handicrafts and collected folk-tales, a collection of which she published in Her interest in schools and the education of women gave her a special insight into native life and character.
A year before leaving India, she coauthored and published The Complete Indian Housekeeper, giving detailed directions to European women on all aspects of household management in India. In the family moved back to Scotland, and she continued her writing there. Books by Flora Annie Steel. Trivia About India Through the No trivia or quizzes yet.
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Quotes from India Through the A history, above all one which claims to hold no original research, but simply to be a compilation of the work of others, needs no introduction save the compiler's thanks to many who have been consulted. One word, however, may be said regarding the only accent used--the circumflex. This is put always on the tone of stress; that is to say, on the syllable to be accented.
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Where no accent appears the syllables are of equal value. Hindustan is derived from the Modern Persian word Hindu. This combined with the Iranian suffix-stan results in Hindustan, "land of the Indus". Term came into common use under the Mughals who referred to their dominion, centered on Delhi, as 'Hindustan'. Flora Annie Steel — was an English writer.
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