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Otto Rothfield
1876–1932
A British writer with first-hand experience of India, he wrote travel and social studies that mix observation, curiosity, and the attitudes of his era. His best-known books explore Indian life, Kashmir, and the place of women in society.
1 Audiobook
Women of India
by Otto Rothfield
About the author
Otto Rothfield was a British author born in 1876 and died in 1932. Surviving catalog records link him with a range of early-20th-century books, including Indian Dust, With Pen and Rifle in Kishtwar, Umar Khayyam and His Age, Women of India, and Impressions of the Co-operative Movement in France and Italy.
Several editions of his books describe him as "F.R.G.S., I.C.S.," suggesting that he wrote from the perspective of a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and someone connected with the Indian Civil Service. That background helps explain the strong focus of his work: India, travel, society, and cultural interpretation for English-language readers of his time.
Today, Rothfield is remembered mainly through Women of India and his other nonfiction works on the subcontinent. Readers approaching him now may find both vivid period detail and the clear imprint of the colonial world in which he was writing.