GENDERING (ANGLO) INDIA 31 Manchester University Press, 1996), 139-159. Quite clearly, Kate is revolted by a glimpse of life behind the purdah and forms 'sisterly' bonds with individual women in spite of the purdah ( eg. with the principal queen), or outside it (eg. with the desert wife,). Rudyard Kipling, "The Courting of Dinah Shadd", Life's Handicap: Being Stories of My Own People (1891; reprint, London: Macmillan, 1897), 52. Future citations from stories in this collection are followed by the page 32. "Review of the Progress of Sanitation in India", The Calcutta Review, Vol. 50, no. 99, 1870, 103. 33. Rudyard Kipling, "The Solid Muldoon" and "In the Matter of a Private" (Soldiers Three], included in the edition, Soldiers Three and Other Stories (London: Macmillan, 1960), 46, 81. Future citations from stories in the collection, Soldiers Three, are from this edition and are followed by the page numbers in parentheses in the text. High female mortality in the barracks is seen in "The Daughter of the Regiment" (Plain Tales), where a colour-sergeant's wife dies during a march while he goes on to survive two other wives as well, and in "The God From the Machine", a soldier reminisces about a pretty barrack girl who "died in Agra twelve years gone", in Soldiers Three, 8. 34. Kipling, "The Courting Of Dinah Shadd", Life's Handicap, 207, 208. 35. Kipling, "Black Jack" (Soldiers Three, 98). Annie Bragin's suspicious husband assaults her suspected lover in "The Solid Muldoon" (Soldiers Three), barrack- shootings take place in both "Blackjack " (Soldiers Three) and in "Love O'Woman" (Many Inventions). 36. Rudyard Kipling, "Love O' Woman", Many Inventions (New York: D. Appleton &; Co.,1893), 294, 295. Future citations from stories in this collection are followed by the page numbers in parentheses in the text. 37. Kipling, "The Daughter of the Regiment", Plain Tales, 206. 38. Kipling, quoted in Charles Carrington, Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work (London: Macmillan, 1955), 66. The word 'Eurasian' is used in its original sense of a person of racially-mixed origins. 39. The English origins that the Vessizes supposedly claim so proudly to lend themselves status are shown to be contradicted by their Portuguese names, "Vezzises, Pereiras, Ribieras, Lisboas, and Gonsalveses and a floating population of loafers" (Plain Tales, 78). 40. "Review of the Progress of Sanitation in India', The Calcutta Review , Vol. 50, no. 99, 1870, 157. For a general discussion of the Eurasian question also see Kenneth Ballhatchet, Race, Sex and Class Under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics, 1793-1905 (London: Weidenfeld andNicolson, 1980), 97-99. 41. Eurasians appear in the contemporary texts like B.M. Croker, Mr. ]ervis: A Romance of the Indian Hills (London: Chatto and Windus,1894) and Flora Annie Steel, Miss Stuart's Legacy (1893; reprint, London and New York: Macmillan Sc Co., 1897). 42. Benita Parry, Delusions And Discoveries: Studies on India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930 (London: Alien Lane,1972), 254, an opinion echoed by Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy : Loss And Recovery of Self Under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983), 67. 43. Phrases like "The White Man's Burden" and description of the 'native' as