However, her awareness of propriety does not preclude her from being attracted to Colin. Perveen travels alone but must be conscious of her social obligations in terms of contact with males – especially English males. Perveen is married and estranged from her husband but cannot obtain a divorce as the abuse she suffered was not sufficiently serious. Consequently, Perveen is asked to intervene. As this is the time when Indian women of class live their lives in purdah and are not able have contact with men outside their families, no male could be called in to resolve the palace conflict. Perveen Mistry is working with her father in his law firm in Bombay. The fictitious kingdom of Satapur is located in the Sahyadri Mountains southeast of Bombay and, as the crown prince is not yet of age, is ruled by an English agent Colin Sandringham. Set in 1922 in the time of the British Raj, the novel not only tells the story of how Perveen Mistry resolves the issue – and uncovers and solves a conspiracy for murder as well – but offers an intriguing glimpse into life for Indian women in the 1920s. His mother and grandmother are in conflict over his education – palace tutoring or a public school in England? The prince’s father and older brother have died in mysterious circumstances leaving the ten-year-old prince as the heir to the crown. Perveen Mistry is a lawyer – in fact, she is the first and so far the only female lawyer in Bombay – and in The Satapur Moonstone she is called on to resolve a dispute over the education of a young crown prince.
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