Book Description
This Is A Book About The Viceroys From `Clemency` Canning To Moutbatten; About The Men Who Held An Office Which, In Its Combination Of Responsibility And Splendour Is Without Parallel In Modern History.
Author : Mark Bence-Jones
Publisher : London : Constable
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This Is A Book About The Viceroys From `Clemency` Canning To Moutbatten; About The Men Who Held An Office Which, In Its Combination Of Responsibility And Splendour Is Without Parallel In Modern History.
Author : Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount)
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Governors
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher : Constable
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1472124731
Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta before he left the subcontinent to die shortly afterwards. The average Viceroy lasted five years and was granted an earldom but rarely a sense of triumph. Did these Viceroys behave as badly as twenty-first century moralists would have us believe? When the Raj was over, the legacy of Empire continued, as the new rulers slipped easily into the offices and styles of the British who had gone. Being 'British' was now a caste. Viceroys is the tale of the British Raj, the last fling of British aristocracy. It is the supreme view of the British in India, portraying the sort of people who went out and the sort of people they were on their return. It is the story of utter power and what men did with it. Moreover, it is also the story of how modern British identity was established and in part the answer to how it was that such a small offshore European island people believed themselves to have the right to sit at the highest institutional tables and judge what was right and unacceptable in other nations and institutions.
Author : Abani Bhushan Rudra
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : John Hope Baron Glendevon
Publisher : London : Collins
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This Book Tells The Story Of Viceroy Linlithgow Of India With Lucid Objectivily, Fully Aware Of The Criticisms That Could Be Stresses Under Which He Worked. Inscribed On The Front End Page.
Author : Arthur T. Pringle
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 1908
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Viscount Mersey
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1949
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Governors
ISBN :
Author : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Archibald Percival Wavell Earl of Wavell
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1973
Category : India
ISBN :
A Classic Compilation Of Viceroy Wavell`S Private Correspondence, Papers And Field Notes Of His Raj Years. Without Dust Jacket.