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 India. His other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples, The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a…mehr
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 India. His other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples, The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Research Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Maps xii Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1 Part One: ASPIRATIONS 1 Numbers 9 2 Motivations 23 Repairing the Fortune A Diamond and Pagodas Species of Zeal Kinship The Lure of the Orient Female Vocations 3 Origins and Identities 72 Dolphin Families Nephews and Competitors Soldiering by Chance Boxwallahs and Planters Celts and North Britons Aristocrats 4 Imperial Apprentices 110 'Rather a Farce . . .' Competition Wallahs Gentlemen Cadets Surgeons on Horseback 5 Voyages and Other Journeys 130 Sail Steam Rivers Men and Animals Machines Part Two: ENDEAVOURS 6 Working Lives: Insiders 161 Pooh Bahs on the Plains Judges in the Station Despots in the Hills The Politicals Dr Nestor and the IMS 7 Working Lives: The Open Air 193 On Tour Jungle Wallahs Policemen Sappers and Canals Indigo Blue and Assamese Tea Missions and Moral Fibre 8 The Military Life 237 The Army in India Tommy Atkins On the March and Along the Frontier Officers and the Mess Part Three: EXPERIENCES 9 Intimacies 283 The Rise and Fall of the Bibi British Marriages Mixed Marriages Adulteries Necessities Sodom and Adventure 10. Domesticities 337 Homes Servants and Shopping Edibles Drinkables Children Pets 11. Formalities 383 'The Etiquette of Precedence' The Club Racial Relations 12. Singularities 414 Unsound Civilians Other Memsahibs Going Native Loafers 13. At Ease 444 Artists and Amateurs Furlough Holidays in India Cricket and Other Games Shikar In the Saddle 14. Last Posts 484 Death in India Repatriates Staying On Envoi 522 Glossary of Indian and Anglo Indian Words 527 Notes 531 Sources and Bibliography 551 Index 579
CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Maps xii Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1 Part One: ASPIRATIONS 1 Numbers 9 2 Motivations 23 Repairing the Fortune A Diamond and Pagodas Species of Zeal Kinship The Lure of the Orient Female Vocations 3 Origins and Identities 72 Dolphin Families Nephews and Competitors Soldiering by Chance Boxwallahs and Planters Celts and North Britons Aristocrats 4 Imperial Apprentices 110 'Rather a Farce . . .' Competition Wallahs Gentlemen Cadets Surgeons on Horseback 5 Voyages and Other Journeys 130 Sail Steam Rivers Men and Animals Machines Part Two: ENDEAVOURS 6 Working Lives: Insiders 161 Pooh Bahs on the Plains Judges in the Station Despots in the Hills The Politicals Dr Nestor and the IMS 7 Working Lives: The Open Air 193 On Tour Jungle Wallahs Policemen Sappers and Canals Indigo Blue and Assamese Tea Missions and Moral Fibre 8 The Military Life 237 The Army in India Tommy Atkins On the March and Along the Frontier Officers and the Mess Part Three: EXPERIENCES 9 Intimacies 283 The Rise and Fall of the Bibi British Marriages Mixed Marriages Adulteries Necessities Sodom and Adventure 10. Domesticities 337 Homes Servants and Shopping Edibles Drinkables Children Pets 11. Formalities 383 'The Etiquette of Precedence' The Club Racial Relations 12. Singularities 414 Unsound Civilians Other Memsahibs Going Native Loafers 13. At Ease 444 Artists and Amateurs Furlough Holidays in India Cricket and Other Games Shikar In the Saddle 14. Last Posts 484 Death in India Repatriates Staying On Envoi 522 Glossary of Indian and Anglo Indian Words 527 Notes 531 Sources and Bibliography 551 Index 579
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