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The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905
Ferdinand Mount
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Description for The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905
Paperback. Acontroversial history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single family, the Lows, ancestors of the author, Ferdinand Mount Num Pages: 784 pages, 2 x 8pp 4-4 plates. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated with some of their own. Each of their lives, remarkable in itself, contributes to the story of the whole fragile and imperilled, often shockingly oppressive and devious but now and then heroic and poignant enterprise.
On the surface, John and Augusta Low and their ... Read more
The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated with some of their own. Each of their lives, remarkable in itself, contributes to the story of the whole fragile and imperilled, often shockingly oppressive and devious but now and then heroic and poignant enterprise.
On the surface, John and Augusta Low and their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
784
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471129469
SKU
V9781471129469
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About Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939. For many years he was a columnist at the Spectator and then the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. In between, he was head of the Downing Street Policy Unit and then editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is now a prize-winning novelist, author of the bestselling memoir Cold Cream, the controversial The New Few ... Read more
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