ndian or British? Is the memoir of Pat Cross written from the journal she had kept about her time in India in the late 1930s. Patricia Rikh, as she was then, spent three years living with her Indian father and his extended family when she was in her late teens. He was the son of the Rajah of Tajpur. Pat had lived all over Europe with her Irish mother and had always thought of herself as British, or possibly European, and therefore adjusting to her Indian heritage was a challenge . This is an evocative glimpse into a time long gone.