Author: ALLEN, CHARLES (EDITED BY)
Title: Plain Tales from the Raj
Description: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1985, First. (ISBN: 0030058627). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very Good+ unmarked copy. First American Edition, First Printing. A rectangular format book of 240 pages. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs Old photographs painstakingly reproduced in duotone. Memorabilia - the nostalgic and affecting artifacts of another time. Lush paintings of a romantic landscape. And the words and memories of more than sixty people who were part of it all - the oldest born in 1876 the youngest when partition still divided India. Drawing on journals, memoirs, diaries, family albums, scrapbooks and private letters and most especially over 250 hours of taped interviews of the men and women who lived and worked for the Raj. D4C. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: British in India, Raj 0030058627


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