These scenes make an important statement in the most subtle of ways.

The mother
supplies all her milk to the English woman’s baby, leaving none for her own baby. I believe this
mother to represent India and that the Company, like the baby, is “sucking dry” India, leaving
nothing left for her own children. This entire time, the actual mother (Governor General’s wife?)
lays around paying absolutely no attention to her own offspring. This mother I believe is
representative of England and the lack of intervention with the Company

1. This print appeared in a book published in 1813, The European In

India by the artist Charles Doyley. It was captioned: "A Dancing Woman of
Lueknow, Exhibiting Before a European Family."

 Nursing
 Anglo indian culture
 Nautch girls
 Classes
 soldiers