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- Book Title
- British in India : a Social History of the Raj
- Publication Name
- The British in India
- Title
- The British in India
- Subtitle
- A Social History of the Raj
- ISBN-10
- 1250234905
- EAN
- 9781250234902
- ISBN
- 9781250234902
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 31/12/2019
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 16.7 Oz
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Number of Pages
- 672 Pages
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An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in "the jewel in the crown" of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company's first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.
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Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250234905
ISBN-13
9781250234902
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038651904
Product Key Features
Book Title
British in India : a Social History of the Raj
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
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"Marvelous . . . Mr. Gilmour orders The British in India thematically . . . the structure's success owes as much to its simplicity as to Mr. Gilmour's remarkable feel for detail, perspective and proportion . . . The erudition, balance and wit of The British in India are in keeping with Mr. Gilmour's superb Anglo-Indian biographies." --Maxwell Carter, The Wall Street Journal "Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details." --Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times (UK) " The British in India is an exceptional book . . . David Gilmour's canvas is British India and he provides the answers in a penetrating and vivid portrait of the British men and women who ran the show from the mid-18th century to 1947. Gilmour writes with wit, detachment and grace. The range of his research is impressive . . . The British in India is a wonderful memorial to the men and women whose legacy is the administrative, legal and educational framework of today's India." --Lawrence James, The Times (UK) "[ The British in India ] is the best kind of history: meticulously researched, elegantly and entertainingly written, and as wide in its sympathies as it is long in its reach." --Peter Parker, Spectator (UK) "David Gilmour, in his highly readable social history The British in India, ... takes apart diaries, memoirs and piles of ribbon-bound letters and creates a fluid narrative detailing how the civilians and soldiers, memsahibs and missionaries, planters and box-wallahs, "pig-stickers" and prostitutes lived, loved and died in a strange, faraway and at times hostile land . . .The narrative is studded with nuggets that illuminate the relationship between Britain and the sub-continent . . . A magisterial work." --Navtej Sarna, Financial Times "This impressive book from David Gilmour, an old hand at Raj history, describes this tribe of British conquerors, administrators and merchants who lived in India from shortly after the death of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II . . . This is a rich and nuanced social history that does not treat every British footstep on the subcontinent as if it were a step on the way to the Amritsar massacre. That does not make it an imperial whitewash." --Jad Adams, New Statesman (UK), "Dazzling . . . Gilmour's command of detail is both scholarly and endlessly engaging . . . The result is a complex vision of the colonial era that feels both immediate and distinctly new." -- The New Yorker "Marvelous . . . Mr. Gilmour orders The British in India thematically . . . the structure's success owes as much to its simplicity as to Mr. Gilmour's remarkable feel for detail, perspective and proportion . . . The erudition, balance and wit of The British in India are in keeping with Mr. Gilmour's superb Anglo-Indian biographies." --Maxwell Carter, The Wall Street Journal "Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details." --Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times (UK) " The British in India is an exceptional book . . . David Gilmour's canvas is British India and he provides the answers in a penetrating and vivid portrait of the British men and women who ran the show from the mid-18th century to 1947. Gilmour writes with wit, detachment and grace. The range of his research is impressive . . . The British in India is a wonderful memorial to the men and women whose legacy is the administrative, legal and educational framework of today's India." --Lawrence James, The Times (UK) "[ The British in India ] is the best kind of history: meticulously researched, elegantly and entertainingly written, and as wide in its sympathies as it is long in its reach." --Peter Parker, Spectator (UK) "David Gilmour, in his highly readable social history The British in India, ... takes apart diaries, memoirs and piles of ribbon-bound letters and creates a fluid narrative detailing how the civilians and soldiers, memsahibs and missionaries, planters and box-wallahs, "pig-stickers" and prostitutes lived, loved and died in a strange, faraway and at times hostile land . . .The narrative is studded with nuggets that illuminate the relationship between Britain and the sub-continent . . . A magisterial work." --Navtej Sarna, Financial Times "This impressive book from David Gilmour, an old hand at Raj history, describes this tribe of British conquerors, administrators and merchants who lived in India from shortly after the death of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II . . . This is a rich and nuanced social history that does not treat every British footstep on the subcontinent as if it were a step on the way to the Amritsar massacre. That does not make it an imperial whitewash." --Jad Adams, New Statesman (UK)
Table of Content
CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Maps xii Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1 Part One: ASPIRATIONS 1 Numbers 9 2 Motivations 23 Repairing the Fortune - A Diamond and Pagodas - Species of Zeal - Kinship - The Lure of the Orient - Female Vocations 3 Origins and Identities 72 Dolphin Families - Nephews and Competitors - Soldiering by Chance - Boxwallahs and Planters - Celts and North Britons - Aristocrats 4 Imperial Apprentices 110 'Rather a Farce . . .' - Competition Wallahs - Gentlemen Cadets - Surgeons on Horseback 5 Voyages and Other Journeys 130 Sail - Steam - Rivers - Men and Animals - Machines Part Two: ENDEAVOURS 6 Working Lives: Insiders 161 Pooh-Bahs on the Plains - Judges in the Station - Despots in the Hills - The Politicals - Dr Nestor and the IMS 7 Working Lives: The Open Air 193 On Tour - Jungle Wallahs - Policemen - Sappers and Canals - Indigo Blue and Assamese Tea - Missions and Moral Fibre 8 The Military Life 237 The Army in India - Tommy Atkins - On the March and Along the Frontier - Officers and the Mess Part Three: EXPERIENCES 9 Intimacies 283 The Rise and Fall of the Bibi - British Marriages - Mixed Marriages - Adulteries - Necessities - Sodom and Adventure 10. Domesticities 337 Homes - Servants and Shopping - Edibles - Drinkables - Children - Pets 11. Formalities 383 'The Etiquette of Precedence' - The Club - Racial Relations 12. Singularities 414 Unsound Civilians - Other Memsahibs - Going Native - Loafers 13. At Ease 444 Artists and Amateurs - Furlough - Holidays in India - Cricket and Other Games - Shikar - In the Saddle 14. Last Posts 484 Death in India - Repatriates - Staying On Envoi 522 Glossary of Indian and Anglo-Indian Words 527 Notes 531 Sources and Bibliography 551 Index 579
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