Tudors

The mother: Well, they knew I was foreign. Shobna: Before you came here, were you proud to be part of the British Empire? The mother: Yes, you see, we were sent to all these schools that were English-speaking. We did English history, all about the Tudors and the Stuarts, but we didn’t learn Indian history till later. Shobna: My mum is so English in very many ways. I mean, we take tea at four o’clock and that’s what we’ve always done. I can very much feel “Empire” in her behaviour. It really does intrigue