The fishing fleet: husband-hunting in the Raj

'Champagne has been known to allay sea sickness when all else failed' : The voyage out

'Happy hunting-ground of the single girl' : The women who went out

'Kisses on the boat deck' : Love at sea

'A Ł300-a-year man

dead or alive' : The men they met

'Welcome to India' : Arrivals

'A hell of a heat' : The climate

'Parties, parties, parties' : The social whirl

The viceroy's daughter : Elisabeth Bruce

'There are so many "ladies"' : Viceregal entertainments

'I told him it was only the moonlight' : Courtship

'It would be a pleasure to be in his harem, I thought' : Maharajas

'Us and them' : Brits and Indians

'I thought my heart was going to jump out of my body' : Grace Trotter

'Where every Jack has someone else's Jill' : The hills

'"No" would have been unthinkable' : Engagement

Daughter of the Raj : Bethea Field

'Colonels must marry' : Marriage

'No one will want to marry me now!' : Perils

'As I inspected ours I sighed a bit' : The first home

'But what about horses? And polo? And parties?' : Iris Butler

'Just lift up your skirts and you'll be all right' : Up country

'Cheerio, old girl' : Sheila Hingston.