Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian

by John Beames

Book Overview

No one could have invented John Beames, whose vibrant and original memoirs were discovered by chance in an attic almost a century after they were written. He arrived in India in 1858, the year after the Mutiny, and worked there as a civil servant for the next thirty-five years, defending powerless peasants against rapacious planters, improvising fifteen-gun salutes for visiting dignitaries, and presiding over the blissful coast of Orissa. His acquaintances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907871097
• ISBN13: 9780907871095
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"