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The British in India - Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience (Paperback)
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The British in India - Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience (Paperback)
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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF
THE YEAR 'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience
of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to
the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details'
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times The British in this book lived in
India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into
the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and
women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and
across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they
got to India, what did they do and how did they live? This book
explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went
to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries,
planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors.
It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and
experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording
the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity
of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes
the lives of many who did not fit in with the usual image of the
Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women
who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib. David Gilmour has
spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many
people who have never been written about before, to create a
magnificent tapestry of British life in India. It is exceptional
work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding
and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a
long and important period of British and Indian history.
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