Connie Shakespear's 'Diary' is a record of her travels as she accompanied her husband (a Captain in the Naga Hills Military Police) through the Naga Hills district of N.E. India in 1900-1902. The book documents the indigenous people and their life in Naga villages as well as elements of the British administration at that time. As the wife of a soldier in the Indian Army Connie has attitudes and perspectives typical of her background but she was also an unusual 'memsahib' who took a keen interest in the country and the Naga people among whom they travelled.