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Plain Tales From The Raj

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349142149
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales From The Raj written by Charles Allen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Plain Tales from the Raj

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Raj written by Charles Allen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plain Tales from the Raj

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Raj written by Charles Allen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plain Tales from the Raj

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Raj written by Charles Allen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plain Tales from the Raj B Pbp

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9784444407632
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Raj B Pbp written by Charles Allen and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kipling Sahib

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0349142157
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Kipling Sahib written by Charles Allen and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Raj

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312263829
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Raj written by Lawrence James and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-12 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.

The British in India

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374116857
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Book Synopsis The British in India by : David Gilmour

Download or read book The British in India written by David Gilmour and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, 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 across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.

Plain Tales from the Hills

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Hills written by Rudyard Kipling and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla—the "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman Strickland, and the Soldiers Three (Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Contents: Lispeth Three and—an Extra Thrown Away Miss Youghal's Sais 'Yoked with an Unbeliever' False Dawn The Rescue of Pluffles Cupid's Arrows The Three Musketeers His Chance in Life Watches of the Night The Other Man Consequences The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin The Taking of Lungtungpen A Germ-Destroyer Kidnapped The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife The Broken Link Handicap Beyond the Pale In Error A Bank Fraud Tods' Amendment The Daughter of the Regiment In the Pride of His Youth Pig The Rout of the White Hussars The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case Venus Annodomini The Bisara of Pooree A Friend's Friend The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows The Madness of Private Ortheris The Story of Muhammad Din On the Strength of a Likeness Wressley of the Foreign Office ...

Raj the Bookstore Tiger

Author : Kathleen T. Pelley
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 1607342774
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Raj the Bookstore Tiger written by Kathleen T. Pelley and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a new manager brings Snowball, a grouchy cat, to the shop where Raj and his owner live and work, Snowball informs Raj that he is not the tiger everyone believes him to be.

Plain Tales from the British Empire

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780349119205
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the British Empire written by Charles Allen and published by Abacus (UK). This book was released on 2008 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Plain Tales from the Hills

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Hills written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set and published during the time of the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, the 40 stories in Plain Tales From The Hills are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate, and petty jealousies rife amongst the British inhabitants of India. Fascinating, funny, tragic, immensely readable, and witty, these stories provide an invaluable insight into life in India during the British Raj, introducing us to the work of one of the most beloved writers of the 20th century.

Holmes of the Raj

Author : Vithal Rajan
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184002505
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Holmes of the Raj written by Vithal Rajan and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1888. As Central Asia reels under the intrigues of the Great Game, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sail to India on a secret mission in the service of Empire. The accountant of a Hindu monastery has been brutally murdered, and the head priest is the prime suspect. But as both detective and doctor soon discover, their Indian autumn has only just begun. They are plunged into a series of adventures that take them from Madras and Pondicherry to the princely courts of Hyderabad, the uncharted jungles of the Central Provinces, pine-scented Nainital, and the bustling metropolis of Calcutta. Even as Holmes unravels sinister plots, Watson busies himself helping Ronald Ross track the malaria parasite and advising a schoolboy called Dhyan Chand on the finer points of hockey. The six stories in Holmes of the Raj are delightful vignettes of life and politics in colonial India. Vithal Rajan breathes life into historical characters, as Holmes and Watson meet Lord Ripon, Madame Blavatsky, Francis Younghusband, Kipling and Kim himself, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramanujan, Motilal Nehru, Tagore, Jinnah, and many, many others. Sprightly, colourful, and remarkably faithful to Conan Doyle, this is an unforgettable collection.

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

Author : Etgar Keret
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN 13 : 159463324X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories written by Etgar Keret and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.

Plain Tales from the Raj : Images of British India in the Twentieth Century /edited by C. Allen

Author : c Allen (editor.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Raj : Images of British India in the Twentieth Century /edited by C. Allen written by c Allen (editor.) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plain Tales from the Hills

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Plain Tales from the Hills written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set and published during the time of the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, the 40 stories in Plain Tales From The Hills are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate, and petty jealousies rife amongst the British inhabitants of India. Fascinating, funny, tragic, immensely readable, and witty, these stories provide an invaluable insight into life in India during the British Raj, introducing us to the work of one of the most beloved writers of the 20th century.

Tales From the Dark Continent

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349142173
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Tales From the Dark Continent written by Charles Allen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Allen captures the vanished world of British Colonial Africa in the recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there.