![]() The women live in purdah, and have refused to talk to the British government agent. The two women disagree about the boy’s education: his traditionally-minded grandmother wants him to remain at the palace to be educated by his elderly tutor, while his more progressive mother wants him to be educated in England, as she was, and as Perveen was. ![]() Sir David Hobson-Jones, a high-ranking official in the British colonial government and the father of Perveen’s friend Alice, asks Perveen to interview the mother and grandmother of the ten-year-old maharaja of Satapur. This book takes Perveen to the fictitious princely state of Satapur in western India. Because of her gender, she cannot argue cases in court, but she can interview women who live in purdah-strict seclusion-and are not allowed to talk to men from outside their immediate family. The first book, The Widows of Malabar Hill, introduces the reader to Perveen, a Parsi (Zoroastrians who had come to India from Persia centuries before), who works as a solicitor in her father’s law firm in Bombay, present-day Mumbai. The Satapur Moonstone is the second book in Sujata Massey’s mystery series about Perveen Mistry, a female lawyer in 1920s India. ![]()
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