Under The Red Blanket

Under the Red Blanket is a memoir about a Swedish-American family living in a remote area of north-east India among the Naga headhunting tribes. It is presented as a family life narrative rooted in lived experience.

Synopsis

The account opens with Bea’s father, Bengt Anderson, leaving Sweden for the United States on the advice of his aunt Hedda, who worked as a cook for the Roosevelt family at their home in Hyde Park, New York. After moving to Minnesota, he meets and marries Edna Michaelson, and the couple later leave the US to spend twenty-nine years living in India.

Set against the realities of jungle life, the memoir describes the challenges of daily living and places the family’s experiences within wider historical events, including life under the British Raj, World War II and the Japanese invasion into India. It also recounts the horrors witnessed during the 1947 separation of India and Pakistan.

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