A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Postans, Mrs.
POSTANS, MRS.,
Is author of "Cutch; or, Random Sketches taken during a Residence in one of the Northern Provinces of Western India." She resided many years in the province of Cutch, and her work is considered one of the most faithful pictures of Life in India, giving a minute account of the feudal government and customs, the religions sects and superstitions of the people. The aristocratic distinctions of caste are rigidly preserved, and the chiefs are haughty, debauched, and cruel.