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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Gilmour |
ISBN: | 0141979216 9780141979212 |
OCLC Number: | 1083458891 |
Description: | xxii, 617 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 20 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | David Gilmour. |
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An exceptional book. It evokes those animated crowd scenes painted by William Frith, full of people going about their workaday lives, or enjoying themselves. ... 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. -- Lawrence James * The Times * Glorious, human, colourful, teeming and spicy. If you read just one book on imperial India, let it be this -- John Lewis-Stempel * Sunday Express * Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * Read more...


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