![]() He thinks she should only associate with other British people. ![]() So she has been free to spend time with her best friend, Isha, who is Indian, and visit the bazaar in town.īut now that it is 1919, and the war is over and her father is home, he is unhappy that Rosalind was given so much freedom. Rosalind has had a lot of freedom the past couple of years, because her father, an army officer, was away fighting in World War I, and her mother has health problems and couldn't pay much attention to her. ![]() Unlike most British children in early 20th century India, she was not sent home to England to be educated, because her older brother died while at school in England and her mother couldn't bear to send another child away after that. Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan (Published by Simon & Schuster, April 19, 2011)įifteen-year-old Rosalind was born in India to British parents. ![]()
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