Maud Diver (born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall; 9 September 1867 – 14 October 1945) was an English author in British India who wrote novels, short stories, biographies and journalistic pieces primarily on Indian topics and Englishmen in India.

She grew up in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), but received her education in England.

Her novels tried to instruct Englishmen on how they were to live in British India and included depictions of mixed marriages (for example in Lilamani and its sequels) between Indians and the English as a positive means of bringing East and West together.

Why not, then, between East and West?At the same time, she also held the view that the British bloodline should not be diluted too much (as in the book, Desmond's Daughter).

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