Ebook {Epub PDF} The British in India: A Social History of the Raj by David Gilmour

This was fascinating book about the cultural and social aspect of the British colonization of India from the beginning in the 17th century to India's independence and the decline of the Raj. This book introduces the readers to a wide variety of individuals across all class backgrounds and gives a glimpse into their lives, their reasons for going to or being in India, and what their experiences were/5(52). "David Gilmour, in his highly readable social history The British in India, takes apart diaries, memoirs and piles of ribbon-bound letters and creates a fluid narrative detailing how the civilians and soldiers, memsahibs and missionaries, planters and box-wallahs, “pig-stickers” and prostitutes lived, loved and died in a strange, faraway and at times hostile landThe narrative is studded with /5(75). Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed /5(54).

THE BRITISH IN INDIA A Social History of the Raj By David Gilmour Illustrated. pp. Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ The United Kingdom's still-roiling Brexit controversy, with the referendum. David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. He is the author of lives of George Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize) and of The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, an acclaimed study of the administrators of Victorian www.doorway.ru other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a. Buy the selected items together. This item: The British in India: A Social History of the Raj by David Gilmour Paperback CDN$ Only 5 left in stock. Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple Hardcover CDN$

BRITISH IN INDIA: A Social History of the Raj. DAVID GILMOUR Book Number: Product format: Paperback. Dominic Sandbrook in the Sunday Times wrote: 'Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details.'. David Gilmour's canvas of British India provides the answers in a. The British were there for years and it changed both India and is still changing Britain. The coming of the Raj and the Rebellion in were milestones. The life for many was short and a hardship, but considering the times and local conditions was probably in keeping with the general overlook. 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 midth century to Gilmour writes with wit, detachment and grace. The range of his research is impressive.