For its second season, the ballrooms of “Bridgerton” opened their doors to the Sharma sisters.
For other viewers,"Bridgerton" season two's efforts at cultural inclusion has been enough for them toIn one scene, Kate applies coconut oil to Edwina’s hair. ”I’ve never seen anything like that on-screen before,” actor Simone Ashley told TODAY in an interview, adding that theA haldi ceremony in "Bridgerton." Pictured: Shelley Conn as Mary Sharma, Charithra Chandran as Edwina Sharma, Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in episode 206 of Bridgerton.
In an interview with TODAY, however, Durba Ghosh, a professor of history at Cornell University and author of"," said"Bridgerton" is not quite as anachronistic as it may seem. Women like the Sharmas could very well have been a part of the Regency era’s elite society. In fact, the transcripts of history show that South Asian women were present — even if the majority of on-screen depictions of the era say otherwise.
“I think the reason we think that Regency England was so white is because we’ve seen all the television series and film adaptations. In reality, there probably were Asians and people of African descent in those spaces,” Ghosh explained.Ghosh cites the lives of Indian women like Kitty Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Ducarel, and Helene Bennett as examples of women like the Sharma sisters.
All three women’s lives were changed by England’s presence in the Indian subcontinent. Some were the product of multicultural unions; others were part of them, as they weren’t uncommon in the region during that time.
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