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Lady Missionary in the Memsahib's Depiction

The “Lady Missionary” is quite a favourite topic for exploring both the theological concern of “Women's work for Religious Cause” as well as the more feminist approach of “Women's work for Women's Cause”. And yet, there is not much work done when it comes to the literary representation of this enterprising woman of the colonial era despite the fact that she is not absent in literature. Missionary women play central or less significant side-roles in many works of colonial literature; Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil, Paul Scott's The Jewel in the Crown, Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus are only a few famous examples to cite at random. Research on how the contemporaneous secular white ladies see and show these religious (often dubbed “dogmatic”) “mish” women is even sparser. Taking this stance lays bare not only the complex heterogeneity of white females out in the colonies and of the “white woman's burden”, but also the intra-racial tensions that are otherwise usually overlooked or deliberately hooded over. So, to focus on this yet unexplored arena, this paper delves into Anglo-Indian literature to find out how the Memsahib chooses to depict the Lady Missionary in her fiction.