The Secret Garden as a Multicultural Text

One of my all-time favorite books as a child was Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. I remember Mary learning how to skip rope in the crisp Yorkshire air and finding the key and then the door to the walled off garden. I remember how in the beginning Mary was Contrary and ugly and how she threw tantrums, the most fabulous one in response to her spoiled cousin Colin's own tantrum. I remember crotchety old Ben Weatherstaff and charming Dickon with all his animal friends. I remember how the digging in the garden basically saved the health of Mary and Colin, and the reuniting of Colin with his father. But I forgot about India. Since I'm writing a literary analysis on The Secret Garden as a postcolonial text, I was surprised to find mentions of India or some mention of Indian culture in almost every single chapter.