Plain Tales From the Raj. Images of British India in the Twentieth Century

Edited By Charles Allen

ISBN 10: 0563129042 / ISBN 13: 9780563129042

Published by Readers Union, Great Britain, 1976

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Hardback Plain Tales From the Raj. Images of British India in the Twentieth CenturyThis book relives the Anglo-India of some seventy British men and women whose lives followed its last fifty years from the carefree Edwardian childhood under a blazing sun to the final loss of confidence and the twilight years of war, the horrors of Partition, the hurried departues and the extended regrets. Now mostly in their seventies or eighties, these last survivor of the Raj went out to India as ordinary men and women to follow - by today's standards - extraordinary lives. The author has skilfully and affectionately transcribed the voices of the survivors onto the printed pages, drawing further on their spoken reminiscences and enchancing them with many lively and original illustrations. Illustrated. 260pages. Wear and tear to D/J edges.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plain Tales From the Raj. Images of British India in the Twentieth Century
• Publisher: Readers Union, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0563129042
• ISBN 13: 9780563129042
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: B/W Photographs
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
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Synopsis

240-pages

About the Author

Charles Allen is an oral and military historian specialising in colonial matters. He is the author of several previous books and lives in north London.