Plain Tales From The Raj

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349142142

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The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country. Charles Allen's classic oral history of the period that marked the end of British rule was first published a generation ago. Now reissued as the imperial century closes, this brilliantly insightful and bestselling collection of reminiscences illustrates the unique experience of British India: the sadness and luxury for some; the joy and deprivation for others.

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034654528

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Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen Pdf

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349142142

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Plain Tales From The Raj by Charles Allen Pdf

The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country. Charles Allen's classic oral history of the period that marked the end of British rule was first published a generation ago. Now reissued as the imperial century closes, this brilliantly insightful and bestselling collection of reminiscences illustrates the unique experience of British India: the sadness and luxury for some; the joy and deprivation for others.

Author : Charles Allen,Michael Mason
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : 0860074552

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Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen,Michael Mason Pdf

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : British
ISBN : OCLC:32877519

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Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen Pdf

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Isis Large Print Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1850891206

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Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen Pdf

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0349119201

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Plain Tales from the British Empire by Charles Allen Pdf

PLAIN TALES FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE gathers together Charles Allen's best loved books on the British experience across the Empire: PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ, TALES FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS and TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT. These vivid stories and recollections give an evocative and unique glimpse into the lost days of the Empire across India, Africa and the territories fringing the South China Sea. 'A hugely valuable record of colonial life in India, Africa and the Far East -- intimate, vivid and immensely enjoyable' Antonia Fraser

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4444407638

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Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812976397

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Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands’ conquests–and in turn supported the Raj, often behind the scenes and out of the history books. Enduring heartbreaking separations from their families, these women had no choice but to adapt to their strange new home, where they were treated with incredible deference by the natives but found little that was familiar. The women of the Raj learned to cope with the harsh Indian climate and ward off endemic diseases; they were forced to make their own entertainment–through games, balls, and theatrics–and quickly learned to abide by the deeply ingrained Anglo-Indian love of hierarchy. Weaving interviews, letters, and memoirs with a stunning selection of illustrations, MacMillan presents a vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers, and wives of the men at the center of a daring imperialist experiment–and reveals India in all its richness and vitality. “A marvellous book . . . [Women of the Raj] successfully [re-creates] a vanished world that continues to hold a fascination long after the sun has set on the British empire.” –The Globe and Mail “MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” –The Daily Telegraph “MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “Well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.” –Evening Standard

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780349142159

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Kipling Sahib by Charles Allen Pdf

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words 'Kipling will do', and thus set young Rudyard on his literary course. And so it was that at the start of the cold weather of 1882 he stepped ashore at Bombay on 18 October 1882 - 'a prince entering his kingdom'. He stayed for seven years during which he wrote the work that established him as a popular and critical, sometimes controversial, success. Charles Allen has written a brilliant account of those years - of an Indian childhood and coming of age, of abandonment in England, of family and Empire. He traces the Indian experiences of Kipling's parents, Lockwood and Alice and reveals what kind of culture the young writer was born into and then returned to when still a teenager. It is a work of fantastic sympathy for a man - though not blind to Kipling's failings - and the country he loved.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547368571

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The Eyes of Asia by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Eyes of Asia" by Rudyard Kipling. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Elizabeth Buettner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191530326

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Empire Families by Elizabeth Buettner Pdf

What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families treats the Raj as a family affair and examines how, and why, many remained linked with India over several generations. Due to the fact that India was never meant for permanent European settlement, many families developed deep-rooted ties with India while never formally emigrating. Their lives were dominated by long periods of residence abroad punctuated by repeated travels between Britain and India: childhood overseas followed by separation from parents and education in Britain; adult returns to India through careers or marriage; furloughs, and ultimately retirement, in Britain. As a result, many Britons neither felt themselves to be rooted in India, nor felt completely at home when back in Britain. Their permanent impermanence led to the creation of distinct social realities and cultural identities. Empire Families sets out to recreate this society by looking at a series of families, their lives in India, and their travels back to Britain. Focusing for the first time on the experiences of parents and children alike, and including the Beveridge, Butler, Orwell, and Kipling families, Elizabeth Buettner uncovers the meanings of growing up in the Raj and an itinerant imperial lifestyle.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Word to the Wise
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : British
ISBN : 1780008341

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Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Raj by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Rudyard Kipling's book is a collection of forty short stories set in British India most of which being initially published in the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette." In addition to the diverse plots that they unfold, the stories provide important information about Indian nature and culture and, particularly, about the British presence in 'the British Raj.' In tales like "Lispeth," "The Other Man," "The Story of Muhammad Din" and "Cupid's Arrows," Kipling positively depicts British soldiers in the Indian colony, presenting them as proud heroes and speaking about minute details of their lives, loves and sacrifices. Kipling's stories also show their readers how India affects the British who settle there. In fact, they focus on the exploration of the physical and cultural aspects of the subcontinent from a 19th-century British vantage point. This may explain why some of Kipling's stances and declarations could be considered as insensitive, or even racist, in the eye of modern readers. The excellent storytelling and the masterful exploitation of language and style can often be juxtaposed with an incapacity to fathom out Indian cultural specificities, which, to some critics, makes the narrative occasionally fall into the underestimation of Indian life.

Author : Jane Gardam
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450175

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Old Filth by Jane Gardam Pdf

First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. “Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters” (The New York Times Book Review). Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away. Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling’s “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” that retraces much of the twentieth century’s torrid and momentous history. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE “Will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated and—a quality encountered all too rarely in contemporary culture—adult.” —The Washington Post “Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning . . . Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting.” —The Seattle Times “A masterpiece of storytelling.” —The Dallas Morning News

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241004531

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The British in India by David Gilmour Pdf

The British in this book lived in India from shortly a er the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live? This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries, planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors. It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes the lives of many who did not t in with the usual image of the Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib. David Gilmour has spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many people who have never been written about before, to create a magni cent tapestry of British life in India. is exceptional work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a long and important period of British and Indian history.