Indian Videshinis: European Women in India

Sonia Gandhi, Princess Niloufer, Princess Durru Shehvar, Simone Tata, Sooni Tata, Saint Teresa The Mother, Margaret Cousins, Sister Nivedita Annie Besant, Jeanne Dupleix.What happened to Sonia Gandhi as she moved from the Italian born wife of the non-political son closer and closer to the centre of power? Before she became Mother Teresa, how did an Eastern European-born outsider in the Loreto order criticize ‘memsahib’ nuns and claim that she would renew Christianity in India in 1947? These are