The British in India: A Social History of the Raj

by David Gilmour and David Gilmour

Book Overview

An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374116857
• ISBN13: 9780374116859
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Everything I Needed to Know About The Raj

I am a 20 years + Indophile. My India library is large. All subject matter represented. David Gilmour's book is at first tedious in its wealth of information, but a second look - before I returned the library book changed my mind out the tedium. This is a must have book of Raj minutiae(sp?) - it covers every idiotic and important facet of the British Raj in its occupation of India. If you read India, this is the book to keep next to you (along with Hobson-Jobson and Hinglish). Without question a companion to every other real or imagined biography of the time (1858-1947). I love it.