The British in India : : a Social History of the Raj
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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.
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.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: xviii, 618 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374116859
0374116857
SUBJECTS
British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
British -- India -- Social life and customs.
British -- India -- History.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.