Victorians Uncovered

The second programme of this three-part series uses the case of English-woman Alice Hulme to illustrate how, as the British Empire gained hold of India, Victorian values of concealment and constraint replaced earlier, more free-and-easy ways, forcing a cultural, social and sexual divide between the Indians and the British.

In June 1883, British India was affronted when it was claimed that Alice Hulme's manservant had attempted to rape her, leaving her badly beaten.

However, there was a more sinister political side to the story, as Sex And The Empire, partly dramatised and filmed on location, reveals.

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