An Unlikely Pair: Disturbance and Intimacy in an Interracial 'Empire Family'

Abstract

It was a Monday morning, 23 April 1906, after several delays due to 'a terrible spell of weather' that Egerton Peters set his two young children, Lorna aged four and George aged two, on a one-way journey away from their tea planation home in Assam. The children were accommpanied by their father for the first leg of the journal by boat from remote Cachar to the nearest town, where they were put in the hands of a 'reliable man' to make the two-day journal to Ghoom, in the Darjeeling distract of Bengal, northeast India. At Ghoom they were to be met by a representative of the St Andrew's Colonial Homes, who would escort them to their destination, the tiny hill station of Kalimpong.