Brigid Keenan

The lifelong effects of being a child in the British Raj

Left: Brigid with Ayah-Ma, who looked after her until she was five, in Jabalpur in 1941. Right: Brigid’s grandmother with her mother and aunt as children, along with their pet gibbon Jacko, in Madras in 1913
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