The nabobs: a study of the social life of the English in eighteenth century India

By: Spear, PercivalMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Delhi, India Rupa 1991Description: x, 215 pSubject(s): British | Manners and customs | IndiaDDC classification: 954.00421 Summary: A fourteen-year-old girl tells about her family and their collective experiences during a seven month period in 1900. From precarious early settlements to the genteel age of Cornwallis and Wellesley, this is entertaining account of the English in India. T. G. P. Spear seeks to treat the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India as a connected whole, attempting to trace and account for the various phases of its development. The book presents a vivid picture, full of colour and movement, of the life and manners during these different phases. The eight illustrations included here are taken from contemporary sources.
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A fourteen-year-old girl tells about her family and their collective experiences during a seven month period in 1900.


From precarious early settlements to the genteel age of Cornwallis and Wellesley, this is entertaining account of the English in India. T. G. P. Spear seeks to treat the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India as a connected whole, attempting to trace and account for the various phases of its development. The book presents a vivid picture, full of colour and movement, of the life and manners during these different phases. The eight illustrations included here are taken from contemporary sources.

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