The British in India
A Social History of the Raj
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: xviii, 618 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Explores the lives of the British in India from the seventeenth century to Independence, profiling the everyday realities of everyday British people, including missionaries, East India Company employees, and forestry officials.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part one. Aspirations. Numbers-- Motivations -- Origins and identities -- Imperial apprentices -- Voyages and other journeys -- Part two. Endeavours. Working lives : insiders -- Working lives : the open air -- The military life -- Part three. Experiences. Intimacies -- Domesticities -- Formalities -- Singularities -- At ease -- Last posts -- Envoi.
Subjects:
British -- India -- Social life and customs.
British -- India -- History.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
British -- India -- Social life and customs.
British -- India -- History.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
ISBN:
9780374116859
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Asia India Gil | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY Asia India Gil | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Published in Great Britain in 2018 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, as: The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-578) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-578) and index.