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About the Book: Three Countries Three Lives : A Doctors Story

Set between three countries, Burma, India, and England, and spanning three generations, Three Countries, Three Lives: A Doctors Story spans the period 1870 to 1977. Tracing Indias journey towards Independence in 1947, Lindy Rajan Cartners story explores racial attitudes under the influence of the Raj and highlights the complexity of the relationship between Britain and India....

An Indian Tamil born in Rangoon, Cartner recounts her unusual childhood, the Mandalay bombing of 1942, her coming of age at the end of the British occupation of the subcontinent, and her remarkable experiences as a doctor and as a woman following Indias independence, in both India and, later, 1960s England. Beginning with the extraordinary experiences of her grandfather who became a doctor against all the odds, and her mother, an ardent woman in many ways ahead of her time and a despatch rider. for the British in Rangoon during the war, the book is deeply revealing of Indian womens struggles, exposing the conflicts between a...