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Glimpses of India - An Annotated Bibliography of Published Personal Writings by Englishmen, 1583-1947 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Glimpses of India - An Annotated Bibliography of Published Personal Writings by Englishmen, 1583-1947 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in World History
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This selected annotated listing of 580 published personal writings
of Englishmen involved in India from 1583 is intended to round out
the scattered bibliographical compilations on the history of
British India. Included are memoirs and autobiographies,
collections of personal letters, diaries and journals, and travel
narratives. The term British India is used in a broad historical
sense to include Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet, and Burma during the
relevant periods of British influence. With a few exceptions, the
volume excludes official minutes, reports, and correspondence.
Although each work provides a unique account of the British
experience, a number of broad trends emerge. One of the most
striking is the initial experience of parting from family and
homeland and embarking on what was, before 1830, a five to
seven-month sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Travel within India,
on the other hand, was a high point of the British experience and
thus provides the subject for much of the writings. Other topics
include the violence of the British-Indian conflict, and the
constant danger of death from disease, accidents, or other mishaps.
Light is also cast on the role of the Western missionaries, who
were active in education, translating Indian languages, and writing
dictionaries. Although they effected little change in such
practices as infanticide, the missionaries did reinforce the
prevalent British view of the Indians as savages. The bibliography
is divided by time period, beginning with the British entry into
India in 1583, the rise and consolidation of British India, and the
Indian mutiny (1857-1858). The subsequent sections list and
annotate writings of Imperial India, the period of reform and
reaction that followed (1905-1920), and India's move toward
independence. It will serve as an important reference for
historians of the period, and will be a useful addition to college
and university libraries.
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