My Indian Family Author:Hilda Wernher Published 1945. This book is fiction based upon fact and actual experience. The story is that of a European woman living in India with a Muslim family, into which her daughter has married....The warmth of her welcome into Rashid's family and the growth of its genuine need for her keep her month after month in the household. Then suddenly, her da... more »ughter dies,...she learns that it is her duty to find another wife for him. This is the real beginning of her search into the depths of India's heart and thought, into customs and emotions which she must understand. One by one she parts the curtains and discloses...the life of an ancient land.Muslims and Hindus, Brahmins and untouchables, the Prince, the servants, British officials, the ultra-modern girls of Bombay, and the women still in purdah--« less