They both have similar interests, enjoy each other’s company, etc. She enjoys staying with Colin, the civil servant, and he likes her too. But her good feeling doesn’t last as Perveen starts to wonder if this was a bad idea when she has to ride a mail cart to the Circuit House and wait there with the single civil servant, a male civil servant, Colin while the palanquin that is set to take her to the Maharaja is gone. She agrees to the plan and moves forward.
No unknown males can enter the palace, and the only one who can go is a woman lawyer.Īfter hearing the amount she is to be paid: The women have been arguing what to do, but every time they send the civil servant out there, he is refused as the women are observing purdah. While the British government isn’t in control or ruling Satapur, they heavily “influence” it and as there is no adult male Maharajah, he is a “ward of the state” technically.
She was just hired by the British government to travel to Satapur to mediate between the Dowager Maharani (grandma) and the Maharani (mother) of the current Maharajah (just a boy) about where their future leader should attend school. However, being an Indian woman lawyer does have its advantages. There are a lot of barriers and people treating her as less, but Perveen will persevere. It has been hard at times as women are not always treated well in the ’20s. Perveen Mistry left a bad marriage and became a lawyer, the only women lawyer in India-yes, not only the only woman, the only Indian woman. This book appealed to me as I love the art deco style, when I see that my eyes are just magnetized to it. So after I read it, I wrote this review and left it the same. I read this book first, before The Widows of Malabar Hill. The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry Mystery #2) by Sujata Massey « Feb Apr » Categories Categories Archives
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