Name: The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience (en Inglés)
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Author: David Gilmour
ISBN: 9780141979212

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The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

David Gilmour

Editorial

Penguin

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

640

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780141979212

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience (en Inglés)

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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesThe British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live?This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries, planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors. It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes the lives of many who did not fit in with the usual image of the Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib.David Gilmour has spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many people whohave never been written about before, to create a magnificent tapestry of British life in India. It isexceptional work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a long and important period of British and Indian history.

David Gilmour

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David Gilmour es un historiador y escritor británico especializado en biografías y ensayos históricos. Sus obras exploran figuras clave y acontecimientos de la historia europea, con un enfoque en Italia y el Reino Unido. Entre sus libros más destacados se encuentra El último gatopardo: Vida de Giuseppe di Lampedusa (2007), donde narra la vida del autor de El gatopardo.

Otras obras notables incluyen The Pursuit of Italy (2011), sobre la unificación italiana, y Curzon: Imperial Statesman (1994), una biografía del político británico Lord Curzon. Su estilo combina rigor histórico con narrativa envolvente, convirtiéndolo en un referente de la literatura histórica contemporánea.

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