The White Sahibs in India
Author : Reginald Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1937
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Reginald Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1937
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Reginald 1905-1958 Reynolds
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781014801609
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Author : Ranbir Vohra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317455908
Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses on Indian civilization and history, this text provides a sweeping look at the long and varied history of India and how this complex legacy has shaped, and is shaping, the nation's modern polity. It offers unique political-historical coverage of India from pre-history into the 21st century.
Author : Pran Nevile
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9352141725
STEP BACK TO GLIMPSE A BYGONE TIME... Mahlee, dhobie, cook, horsekeeper, Each were to the chokee sent, Last of all the wretched sweeper- Still the Colonel's liquor went. 'Devlish odd this!' said the Colonel 'What a land to soldier in! Aboo, this is most infernal - Who the blazes drinks my gin?' Sahib's India's is a panaromic look at the lives of the British in colonial India. Culled from Raj literature , it reveals little-known aspects of their lives and their dealings with their Indian subjects. Drawing from contemporary journals, plays and poems, the author provides wonderful descriptions of British homes and servants , their tastes and fashions, cultural idiosyncrasies, profligacy, sports, hunts and shoots, giving us, with the relaxed familiarity of the after -dinner raconteur, a flavour of the period. The book is peppered with a host of characters- astrologers, jugglers, magicians, grass widows, the 'fishing fleet', missionaries, nautch girls, mavericks and eccentrics- who made India their home as the British turned from traders to empire- builders, and is interspersed with period photographs, paintings and sketches. Thsi is a delightful evocation of a vanished world.
Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0670082414
&Lsquo;Thus We Both Were Tied To India With Every Possible Bond Of Memory And Affection, Which Clearly Played An Important Part In Our Lives&Hellip;As The Last Viceroy And Indeed&Nbsp;When I Stayed On As The First Governor-General Of The Independent Country Of India.&Rsquo; &Mdash;Lord Mountbatten A Rare Collection Of Essays That Invites The Reader To Revisit A Vanished Era Of Sahibs And Memsahibs. From Lord Mountbatten To Peggy Holroyde To Maurice And Taya Zinkin, Britishers Who Lived And Worked In India Reminisce About Topics And Points Of Interest As Varied As The Indian Civil Service And The Roshanara Club,&Nbsp;Shikar And Hazri, The Amateur Cine Society Of India And The Doon School, Rudyard Kipling And Mahatma Gandhi. &Nbsp; Selected From A Series Of Articles Commissioned By Khushwant Singh When He Was The Editor Of The Illustrated Weekly Of India These Delightfully Individualistic And Refreshingly Candid Writings Reveal A Fascinating Array Of British Attitudes, Experiences, Observations, Fond Memories, The Occasional Short-Lived Grouses And, Above All, A Deep And Abiding Affection And Respect For India.
Author : Pran Nevile
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0143066919
Culled from Raj literature, Sahib's India reveals little-known aspects of their lives and their dealings with their Indian subjects. Drawing from contemporary journals, plays and poems,
Author : Varindra Tarzie Vittachi
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Satire on the post independent Asian countries.
Author : Intirā Śrīn̲ivācan̲
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Indic fiction
ISBN : 9780140291742
The rich and varied body of writing in the Indian languages has grown immeasurably in the last hundred years. This collection of short stories brings together some perennial favourites from this vast treasure trove, written by acknowledged masters of the art and sensitively translated. The twenty-three stories included deal with themes central to modern India: caste, gender politics and emerging changes in the traditional family structure. These are striking vignettes from all parts of the country, evocative of different lifestyles yet reflective of common issues and problems with which we can all identify.
Author : Raja Rao, Premchand, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Mulk Raj Anand & Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8179922170
New Reformatted Edition This book is a compilation of classic short stories by five great Indian writers – Raja Rao, Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, Dr. Mulk Raj Anand and Khushwant Singh. Though not necessarily representative of the authors’ complete works, the stories have been carefully chosen to showcase their versatility and skill as storytellers. The collection covers an extraordinary range of themes, styles and settings, allowing the reader a glimpse of another world gone by. Yet, these stories seem timeless, and the characters in them show the same foibles, fears and hopes as do people in the brave new world of the 21st century.
Author : Āśāpūrṇā Debī
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788125026501
The First Promise is a translation of Ashapurna Debi s novel, Pratham Pratisruti, originally published in Bengali in 1964. Celebrated as one of the most popular and path-breaking novels of its time, it has received continual critical acclaim: the Rabindra Puraskar (the Tagore Prize) in 1966 and the Bharitiya Jnanpith, India s highest literary award, in 1977. Spanning the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ashapurna tells the story of the struggles and efforts of women in nineteenth-century, colonial Bengal in a deceptively easy and conversational style. The charming eight-year old heroine, Satyabati is a child bride who leaves her husband s village for Calcutta, the capital of British India where she is caught in the social dynamics of women s education, social reform agendas, modern medicine and urban entertainment. As she makes her way through this complex maze, making sense of the rapidly changing world around her, Satyabati nurtures hopes and aspirations for her daughter. But the promises held out by modernity turn out to be empty, instigating Satyabati to break away from her inherited world and initiate a quest that takes her to the very heart of tradition.