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The Tears of the Rajas - Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 (Paperback)
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The Tears of the Rajas - Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 (Paperback)
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The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in
India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family.
For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and
disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows.
They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated
with some of their own. Each of their lives, remarkable in itself,
contributes to the story of the whole fragile and imperilled, often
shockingly oppressive and devious but now and then heroic and
poignant enterprise. On the surface, John and Augusta Low and their
relations may seem imperturbable, but in their letters and diaries
they often reveal their loneliness and desperation and their doubts
about what they are doing in India. The Lows are the family of the
author's grandmother, and a recurring theme of the book is his own
discovery of them and of those parts of the history of the British
in India which posterity has preferred to forget. The book brings
to life not only the most dramatic incidents of their careers - the
massacre at Vellore, the conquest of Java, the deposition of the
boy-king of Oudh, the disasters in Afghanistan, the Reliefs of
Lucknow and Chitral - but also their personal ordeals: the
bankruptcies in Scotland and Calcutta, the plagues and fevers, the
deaths of children and deaths in childbirth. And it brings to life
too the unrepeatable strangeness of their lives: the camps and the
palaces they lived in, the balls and the flirtations in the hill
stations, and the hot slow rides through the dust. An epic saga of
love, war, intrigue and treachery, The Tears of the Rajas is surely
destined to become a classic of its kind.
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