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Jeremy continues by looking at how settlers spread the British way of doing things
When the seeds of empire were being sown by the traders of the East India Co in the 18thC, there was plenty of inter racial mixing – even marriage. But Victorian values soon put a stop to that: not only missionaries from Britain but wives coming out for the first time to join their husbands – the memsahibs
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