Raikes, Charles

London

1867

Ramachandran Nair, K.R.

Three Anglo-Indian Poets (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Library)

Sterling Publishers, New Delhi

1987

Ramsden, A. R.

Tea Planting and Hunting in the Assam Jungle

London

1948

Rao, Amiya and B.G.

The Blue Devil: Indgio & Colonial Bengal

Oxford University Press

1992

Rao, K. Bhaskara

Rudyard Kipling’s India

Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman

1967

Rao, R.P.

Portuguese Rule in India (Goa) 1510-1961

Asia Publishing House Bombay & New York

1963

Ray, Chaudri

Henry Derozio, Eurasian Poet and Reformer

Metropolitan Book Agency, Calcutta

1966

Ray, Rakat Kanta

Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1927

Oxford Univ. Press, Delhi

1984

Raye, N.N.

The Annals of the Early English Settlement in Bihar (Univ. of Michigan General Library)

Kamala Book Depot, Ltd., Calcutta

1927

Read, Anthony & David Fisher

The Proudest Day India´s Long Road to Independence

W.W. Norton & Company, New York

1997

Reitz, Jeffrey

The Survival of Ethnic Groups

McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto

1980

Renford, Raymond K.

The Non-Official British in India to 1920 (Univ. of Calif. Davis Library)

Oxford Univ. Press, Delhi

1987

Revankar, R.G.

The Indian Constitution: Case Study of Backward Classes

Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Rutherford

1971

Reynolds, H.G.

The Anglo-Indian Manifesto (The British Library – Oriental & India Office Collections)

Lion Press, Lahore, India

1946

Reynolds, H.J.

At Home in India

Henry J. Diane, London

1903

Reynolds, Reginald

The White Sahibs in India

John Day/Reynal & Hitchcock, New York

1937

Rhodes, C.

The Anglo-Indians in Political India 1832-1932

Oxford Univ. Press, London

1932

Rhodes, J.

Political India

1932

Rich, P.B.

Race and Empire in British Politics

Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

1986

Richards,Private Frank, DCM, MM

Publishers: Faber & Faber

1936

Richter, Julius

A History of Missions in India

Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh & London

1908

Ricketts, Harry

Rudyard Kipling: A Life

Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., D1701New York, NY

1999

Risely, H.

People of India

Thacker Spink & Co., London

1915

Rivett-Carnac, Colonel S.

The Presidential Armies of India

W. H. Allen & Co., London

1890

Robbie, C.T.

The Anglo-Indian Force

Allahabad

1918

Roberts of Kandahar, Lord

Forty-One Years in India

Richard Bentley & Son, London

1898

Roberts, C.; Proudfoot, C.L.; Maher, R., et. al.

Bringing Generations Together

The Australian Anglo-Indian Association, Perth

1992

Roberts, Emma

Scenes & Characteristics of Hindustan (With sketches of Anglo Indian Society) (3 vols)

W.H. Allen, London

1835

Robins, Leslie

Policing The Raj: 1928-1947

Distributed by BACSA

1985

Robinson, Jane

Angels of Albion: Women of the Indian Mutiny

Viking, Great Britain

1996

Roche, George

Childhood in India: Tales from Sholapur

Rodrick, Reginald

Echoes of Old Christ Church ‘The British Years’

R.J. Rodrick, Missenden, Bucks

1997

Rodrigues, Mario

Batting For The Empire

Penguin Books

2003

Rodriguez, Helen

Ulverscroft Large Print Books
ISBN 0708911897

1984

Rose, E.J.B.

Colour and Citizenship

Oxford Univ. Press, London

1969

Roy, A.K.

A Short History of Calcutta, Towns & Suburbs

Raddi India

1982

Roy, Parama

Not Available
ISBN: 0520204875

Roychowdhury, Laura

The Jadu House: Intimate Histories of Anglo-India

Doubleday, London

Royle, Trevor

The Last Days Of The Raj

John Murray,
London

1997

Rushby, Kevin

Chasing the Mountain of Light

Constable and Co. Ltd., Great Britian

1999

Russell, William H.

My Diary in India 1858-9 (2 vols.)

Routledge, Warne & Routledge, London

1860

Ruthnaswamy, M.

Some Influences that Made the British Administrative System in India

Luzac & Co., London

1939

Sabin, Margery

Oxford University Press
ISBN 0195150171

Sahgal, Nayantara

Sunlight Surround You

Orient Longmans, New Delhi

1970

Sahni, J.N.

Indian Railways One Hundred Years 1853 to 1953

New Delhi

1953

Saksena, Ram Babu

European and Indo-European Poets of Urdu & Persian

Newul Kishore Press, Lucknow

1941

Sandys, E.T.

One Hundred and Forty-Five Years at the Old Mission Church

Valmiki Press, Calcutta

1916

Sarker

Primary Education in Bengal

Calcutta

1929

Saroop, Narinder

A Squire of Hindustan: The Life of Lt. Col. William Gardner of Gardner’s Horse

Nottingham Court Press, U.K.

1985

Schenkhuizen, M.

Memoirs of an Indo Woman: Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad

Amsterdam

1991

Schermerhorn, R. A.

These Our People

Heath, Boston

1949

Scott, E.V.

Fragments Held in Store

U.K. Fourems, Publications

1996

Scott, Paul

A Division of the Spoils

William Morrow, New York

1975

Scott, Paul

Images of India

St. Martin’s Press, New York

1980

Scott, Paul

The Jewel in the Crown (First published in England in 1964)

William Morrow, New York

1966

Scott, Paul

Johnnie Sahib

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London

1952

Scott, Paul

The Mark of the Warrior

Pan Books, London

1962

Scott, Paul

Staying On

William Heinemann Ltd., Great Britain

1977

Scott, Paul

The Towers of Silence (1st Publ. in England in 1971)

William Morrow, New York

1972

Scott, Sir Walter

The Surgeon’s Daughter, The Waverley Novels

Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh

1860

Scribbler, Henley

Mark My Words

Sealy, I. Allan

The Everest Hotel

Doubleday, London

1998

Sealy, I. Allan

From Yukon to Yucatan

Secker & Warburg, London

1994

Sealy, I. Allan

The Trotter-Nama

Alfred A. Knopf Ltd., New York

1988

Seeley, John Robert

The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lecture

MacMillan and Co.,London

1883

Sen, A.N.

Notes on Bengal Renaissance

1946

Sen, S.N.

Eighteen Fifty-Seven

The Publ. Div.of the Ministry of Info. & Broadcasting Gov’t of India

1957

Sen, S.P.

The French in India (Vol. 33, No. 2)

Univ. of Calcutta, Calcutta

1947

Sencourt, R.

Indians in English Literature

1923

Sengoopta, Chandak

MacMillan, London
ISBN 0-333-98916-3

2003

Seth, Mesrovb Jacob

Armenians in India (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley General Library)

Gulab Primlani, Oxford & IBH, New Delhi

1937

Shemain, Ashley

SOON TO BE RELEASED

Shepherd, Gordon

MacMillan & Company

1960

Shepherd, W. J.

Guilty Men of 1857: England’s Great Mission to India (New Ed.)

Delhi

1987

Shepherd, W. J.

A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore (2nd ed.)

London Printing Press, Lucknow

1879

Sherer, Captain Moyle

Sketches of India

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, London

1824

Sherman, D.R.

Penguin, UK
MacMillan Education
ISBN 0435272268

1992

Sherwood

Journal and Letters (1805-1816)

Sherwood

The Life and Times of Mrs. Sherwood (1775-1851) (Ed. by J. Harvey Darton)

Wells Gardner Darton & Co., London

1910

Sherwood, M.M.

The History of George Desmond

F. Houlston and Sons, Wellington

1821

Shetter, W.

The Netherlands in Perspective: The Organizations of Society and Environment

Leiden

1987

Shires, Reginald

A Leopard´s Call: An Anglo-Indian Love Story is a gripping account of a young husband and wife team. Norma and Reginald Shires, a nurse and minister, just two years into their marriage, set out to live in the wilderness grasslands of West Bengal, India, down from Bhutan. There they began teaching and building up a high school for students from rare tribal groups.

From the very first page of this eloquent brief on living a simple life and raising a family in a jungle area, you become engrossed in a hilarious yet moving true story of their unforgettable world. Anglo-Indians have often distinguished themselves in sports, entertainment, medicine, education, the railway and telegraphs and in the armed services. This story is an example of those who devote their lives to those in need.

Authorhouse Books, USA
Paperback ISBN: 1420828223
Hardcover ISBN: 1420828231

April 1, 2005
www.RegShires.com

Shires, Reginald

At An Age For Love: A Novel of Bangalore During World War II is an extraordinary story of a soldier´s family waiting for his safe return from the Africa Front where he serves with a British tank unit pressing hard against the Germans in the desert of Libya. The chronicle begins with the soldier, Capt. Edward Thompson, saying goodbye to his wife Amelia and son Paddy and ends with his return at the end of the war. The story, narrated in incredible detail, tells how the boy and his mother with their relatives and friends live in this hectic military city in South India, where those who stay behind are swept along into the rushing, wild stream of British history in India during a time of war. The lives of these women–and their children–provide a bold story of Anglo-India in this multihued Indian landscape where rogues and villains and the honest, hard-working, church-going, form relationships in this bold saga as men and women cross family and racial boundaries in their search for love. The city of Bangalore with its cluster of towns around British army barracks comes alive with memorable characters and this novel follows their tense and gripping relationships. The ending, where these fun-loving characters come together in a frail boat on the peaceful Cauvery River at Seringapatnam near sunset, has much to say about life and the human mystery and the vision it offers us as we live in a changing world.

Authorhouse Books, USA

Paperback, ISBN: 1420877992

January 2006

Simha, Rajesvaraprasada Narayana

Reliance Pub. House, New Delhi

1987

Singh, Bhupal

Oxford Univ. Press, London

1934

Singh, D.

Ministry of Culture, Singagpore

1985

Singh, Hira Lal.

Asia Publishing House, Bombay

1963

Singh, Madan Paul Major

Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

1976

Singh, Payal

Singh, Rashna B.

Three Continents Press, Washington D.C.

1988

Singh, S. D.

Arnold-Heinemann, New Delhi, India

1973

Sinha, D.P.

Punthi Pustak, Calcutta

1974

Sircar, Rani

Ram Advani Booksellers, Lucknow

Skinner, Captain Thomas

Henry Colburt & Richard Bentley, London

1832

Skipton, H.P.K.

A.H. Mowbray & Co.

1921

Skipton, H.P.K.

A.H. Mowbray & Co., London

1912

Skrine, E.N.B.

London

1901

Slaughter, Carolyn

Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1st edition
ISBN: 0374113998

November 2004

Sleeman, General Sir W.H., K.C.B.

Gutenberg E-Book
ISO-8859-1

March 2005 – Release Date

Sleeman, W. H.

Archibald Constable & Co., London

1893

Smart, J.B.

The Examiner Press, Bombay

1929

Smith, George

The Religious Tract Society, London

1892

Smith, George

American Tract Society, New York

1882

Smith, George

J. M. Dent Co., London

1909

Smith, J. (Pseud.) Keene, H.G.

English Office, Calcutta

1880

Smith, John

The Examiner Press, Bombay

1859

Smith, Julius

Jennings & Pye, Cincinnati, OH

1902

Smith, L.F.

John Stockdale, London

1805

Snell, Owen

Anglo-Indians and Their Future (Univ. of Wisconsin & Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Libraries)

Thacker & Co. Ltd., Bombay

1944

Solomon, P. & Patch V.

Handbook of Psychiatry

Laye Medical, Los Altos

1974

Spear, Percival

The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India

Oxford Univ. Press, London

1963

Spear, Percival

Twilight of the Mughuls

Cambridge Univ. Press

1951

Srinivasan, Nirmala

Prisoners of Faith: A View from Within

Sage Publications, New Delhi

1989

Staines, James Richard

Country Born

Somerset, Croscombe Press

1986

Stanford, J.K., ed.

Ladies in the Sun: The Memsahibs India 1798-1860

Galley Press, London

1962

Stark, H.A. & Hoemle, A.F. Rudolf

A History of India

Stark, H.A. & Madge, Elliot W.

East Indian Worthies: Memoirs of Distinguished Indo-Europeans

Cambridge Steam Printing, Calcutta

1892

Stark, Herbert Alick

Calcutta in Slavery Days (The British Library – Oriental & India Office Collections)

Calcutta

1917

Stark, Herbert Alick

The Call of the Blood, or, Anglo-Indians and the Sepoy Mutiny (Univ. of Illinois & Univ. of Minnesota Libraries

British Burma Press, Rangoon

1932

Stark, Herbert Alick

Hostages to India, or the Life Story of the Anglo-Indian Race

The Calcutta Fine Art College, Calcutta

1926

Stark, Herbert Alick

In and Around Puri

1905

Stark, Herbert Alick

India Under Company & Crown (5th ed.) (Univ. of Minnesota Library & The British Library – Oriental & India Office Collections)

MacMillan & Co., Calcutta

1922

Stark, Herbert Alick

John Ricketts and His Times (Cal State Long Beach & Univ. of Minnesota Libraries)

Wilson & Son, Calcutta

1934

Stark, Herbert Alick

Memoirs of Indo-Europeans

Calcutta

1936

Stark, Herbert Alick

Vernacular Education in Bengal

General Publ. Co., Calcutta

1916

Stavorinus, John Splinter

Voyages to the East-Indies, 1768-1778 (3 vols) (Trans. from the Dutch by Samuel H. Wilcocke)

G.G. & J. Robinson, London

1798

Steel, Flora Annie

Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195665007

January 2005

Steel, Flora Annie

India Through the Ages

George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London

1908

Steel, Flora Annie

Tales of the Punjab (Alameda County Library)

Macmillan & Co., London

1894

Stephens, H. Morse

Albuquerque (Rulers of India Series)

Oxford Univ. Press

1892

Stevenage, Patrick Hugh

A Railway Family in India: Five Generations of the Stevenages

BACSA, Putney, London

2001

Stilz, Gerhard

Die Anglo-Indian Short Story: Geschichte Einer Kolonialliteratur

Niemeyer, Tubingen

1981

Stocqueler, J.H.

Handbook of India, A Guide to the Stranger and the Traveller, and a Companion to the Resident

W.H. Allen, London

1844

Stokes, W.

The Anglo-Indian Codes

Clarendon Press, Oxford

1887

Stoll, Dennis

The Dove Found No Rest (Oregon State University Library)

Country Life Press, NY

1946

Stonequist, Everett V.

The Marginal Man: A Study in Personality & Culture Conflict. With an Introduction by R.E. Park

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York

1937

Stoquellor, J.H.

India

1853

Stracey, Eric

Growing Up in Anglo-India

EastWest Books (Madras) Pvt. Ltd.

2000

Stracey, Eric

Odd Man In: My Years in the Indian Police

Vikas Pub., New Delhi

1981

Stracey, Pat Stracey, Sir John

Reade Elephant Hunter India (Rev. Ed.)

Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., London

1894

Stuart, V.A.

The Cannons of Lucknow

Pinnacle Books, New York

1974

Stuart, V.A.

The Heroic Garrison

Pinnacle Books, New York

1975

Stuart, V.A.

The Sepoy Mutiny

Pinnacle Books, New York

1973

Stuart, V.A. (Pseud. of Violet Victoria Mann)

Massacre at Cawnpore

Pinnacle Books, New York

1973

Suleri, Sara

University of Chicago Press
ISBN 0226779831

Sundaresan, Indu

Splendour of Silence
Reviewed by Moniza Inam

WRITTEN by Indu Sundaresan, who was born and brought up in India and currently lives in Seattle, the novel explores the Raj period when the Second World War was at its peak. When one starts reading the book, there is a feeling of familiarity and nostalgia. Perhaps this is due to the fact that Urdu literature has ample books on the subject. Writers ranging from Krishan Chandar to Quratulain Hyder, Ismat Chaughtai and scores of others have written extensively on it. The lifestyle of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) officers, their servants and exclusive clubs, concerns about their children’s education and aspirations to become pacca sahibs, the rat race to make their sons pass the civil service examination, as well as the prejudices of the English rulers, the political turmoil and the nationalist movement have been touched upon in detail by the writers.

Another familiar theme is the phenomenon of Anglo Indians, the race which emerged due to the interaction of the colonists and the subject people. The author recounts the ways this mixed race group was disowned by both races and had to fight a war of survival in the caste-ridden conservative Indian society during the 19th century. The princely states and their fascinating rulers — each with his own idiosyncrasies and extravagant way of living — are also discussed in detail in the book.

Despite choosing a topic that has been done to death, it is to Sundaresan’s credit that with the help of an intricate and grasping plot, she is able to keep the interest of the readers alive till the very end of the novel. There are no loopholes or ambiguities in the plot, but with the help of various flashbacks she works hard to keep the reader enthralled.

The story begins in Seattle where an American girl named Olivia receives a large leather trunk from India as a present on her 21st birthday. It contains some saris, photographs, a diary and a letter. As Olivia starts reading the letter, she discovers her roots, forgotten names, and her family history along with the story about her deceased parents. She learns about their unconditional love for each other, and how her recently belated father loved her long dead mother till the end of his own life.

The family’s history commences in the princely state of Rudrakot, where an ICS officer named Raman lives happily with his three children till an American army officer, named Captain Sam Hawthrone, comes into their lives. Raman’s daughter Mila is swept off her feet by the charming foreigner — she seems to have forgotten that she is engaged to the raja of the state. Mila gives her heart, body and soul, he, however, has other priorities such as his missing brother who is also a US army officer. Sam is looking for his brother who, it is believed, disappeared within Rudrakot.

Parallel to the story of Mila and Sam, the author has provided a narrative on the happenings on the Burmese front where Sam was posted before coming to India. This aspect of the novel is perhaps the most interesting as Sundaresan takes readers to the jungles of Japanese-occupied Burma where two American soldiers and a female missionary have been fighting their own war of survival.

The author also depicts the incongruities of a colonial society in a very effective manner, especially the plight of the Eurasian people. It is one of the factors that force Mila to reconsider her decision to marry Sam. She realises that their children will not be accepted either as Indians or American, but instead will remain outcasts. However, the most touching and heartrending character is that of Jai who graciously accepts the fact that his wife is in love with someone else and is even carrying the other man’s child. After Mila’s death, he takes the infant to her biological father. The act reveals his magnanimity and unqualified love for Mila.

Splendour of Silence is an exceptionally well-written and well-researched work of fiction which, apart from a typical love triangle, captivatingly depicts the socio-political conditions of the Raj. The only exasperating aspect of the novel is that sometimes the writer tends to go overboard when explaining trivial elements of Indian life. The author has obviously done this for the sake of western readers, but at times the descriptions tend to become boring for desi readers.

Penguin Books, India
ISBN-10: 0143101382

December 2006

Sunderland, Dr.

India in Bondage: Her Right to Freedom and a Place Among the Great Nations

Lewis Copeland, New York

1929

Suyin, Han

The Mountain is Young

Jonathan Cape, London

1958

Swift, Eric

The Brave and the Prejudiced Together They Won an Empire

Springfield Publ. Ltd., Essex, England

1982

Syal, Meera

Life Isn´t All Ha Ha Hee Hee

The New York Press

1999

Sykes, Laura

Calcutta Through British Eyes: 1690-1990 Vignettes of Calcutta by Past Residents & Jungle

Oxford Univ. Press

1992

Symington, John

In a Bengal Jungle

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1935

Tavernier

Travels in India by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Trans. by V. Ball) (2nd ed. by William Crooke) (2 vols)

Oxford University Press

1925

Taylor, A.J.P.

English History 1914 – 1945 The Oxford History of England

Oxford University Press, New York

1965

Taylor, Col. Philip Meadows

Confessions of a Thug (3 vols.)

Richard Bentley, London

1839

Taylor, Col. Philip Meadows

Ralph Darnell (3 vols.)

Kegan Paul, London

1865

Taylor, Col. Philip Meadows

Seeta (3 vols.)

Kegan Paul, London

1872

Taylor, Col. Philip Meadows

The Story of My Life (Ed. by his Daughter) (New Ed. by Henry Bruce)

Oxford University Press

1920

Taylor, Col. Philip Meadows

Tara: A Mahratta Tale (3 vols.)

Kegan Paul, London

1863

Taylor, J.G.

The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia

University of Wisconsin Press., Madison

1983

Taylor, P.J.O.

OUP India
ISBN: 0195651138

New edition 1999

Taylor, P.J.O.

A Feeling of Quiet Power
The Siege of Lucknow 1857

Indus, New Delhi

1994

Taylor, P.J.O.

A Star Shall Fall: An Assessment of “India 1857”

New Delhi

1993

Taylor, P.J.O.

Chronicles of the Mutiny & Other Historical Sketches

Indus, New Delhi

1992

Temple, Sir Richard C.

India in 1880 (3rd ed.)

John Murray, London

1881

Tennant

Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London

1804

Terraine, J.

Hutchinson, London

1969

Thacker, W. & Co.

BACSA, London

1987

Thankappan, Nair, P.

Van Pelt Library

Not Known

Thiberveille

1957

Thoburn, Bishop J. B.

Hunt & Eaton, New York

1892

Thomas, Lt. Col. O.J.

The Mountain and the Men

Oscar Thomas, W Australia

1995

Thomas, P.

Allen & Unwin, London

1954

Thompson, E.J.

The Life of Charles, Lord Metcalfe

Faber & Faber, London

1937

Thompson, Edward

Enlist India for Freedom!

Victor Gollanz, Ltd., London

1941

Thompson, Edward

An Indian Day

Penguin, London

1938

Thompson, Edward

A Letter from India

Faber & Faber, London

1932

Thompson, Edward

The Making of the Indian Princess

Oxford Univ. Press

1943

Thompson, Edward

An Indian Day

Calcutta Superintendent Government Printing

1940

Thompson, Julia Carrie

Trye´s Year in India (Among the Hindus)

Presbyterian Board of Public.

1872

Thompson, Paul

The Voice of the Past: Oral History

Oxford Univ. Press, London

1978

Thompson, Virginia & Adloff, Richard

Minority Problems in Southeast Asia

Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

1955

Thompson, Virginia McLean

Dupliex and His Letters

Robert Ballou, New York

1933

Thomson, & Garrett

Rise and Fulfillment of British Rule in India

MacMillan & Co., London

1935

Thornton, Edward

London

1859

Thornton, L.H.

Light and Shade in Bygone India: A Study of the Soldier in India at the End of 18th Century

1927

Thorpe, Owen

Paper Boats In The Monsoon – ife In The Lost World Of Anglo-India
About the Book
Indian Independence in 1947 fired the starting gun for the great Anglo-Indian exodus from India. These half-caste ´children of the Raj´ were never going to fit in – they were an unwelcome reminder of the colonial past and they insisted on being different. They took with them a unique, vibrant and free-wheeling way of life, now lost forever to India. Owen Thorpe describes in colourful and hilarious detail his boyhood chasing kites and chameleons, fighting the native lads, threatening the monsoon storms and eating his weight in food each day. He recounts his experiences in a barefoot orphanage and as unwilling boarding school ´prisoner´ of the grim Brothers who ran his remote hill school. All was not plain sailing as his teacher parents moved from school to school and finally abandoned him to India as they emigrated to England. He survived to work his way through college strumming a bass guitar and singing in the famous Calcutta pop scene of the 1960s as well as patronising the posher local opera, drama and motor sports groups. He found employment working for a national newspaper, where he and his colleagues were subjected to weekly attacks by howling mobs who disagreed with its editorial policy. He also spent his evenings broadcasting on radio. Finally, he reluctantly joins the Anglo-Indian exodus only to find that getting out of India is harder than he realised. He hires a lawyer to bribe and lie his way out of the country and joins his old family in England – this time accompanied by a family of his own. The book is an affectionately observed portrait of a unique culture and its entertaining characters. The author has a sharp eye for detail and a keen appreciation of the quirkiness of being an unwelcome guest in his own country.

295 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); published by Trafford Publishing Canada; catalogue #07-1056; ISBN 1-4251-2965-1

2008

THORPE, Owen

The Lion And The Chakra
Book Review
I must begin by saying I thoroughly enjoy Owen’s writing style. He draws a picture in words and then proceeds to capture your imagination by painting the background, and the memorable character

Troubadour Publishing Limited

2010

Thurston, Edgar

Eurasians of Madras & Malabar

1898

Thurston, Edgar & Rangachari, K.

Castes & Tribes of Southern India (5 vols.)

Government Press, Madras

1909

Tindall, Gillian

City of Gold

Maurice Temple Smith, Ltd.

1982

Tinker, Hugh

The Union of Burma: A Study of the First Years of Independence

Oxford University Press, London

1957

Torrens, W.M.

Empire in Asia A.D. 1757-1858

London

1872

Travers, Robert

Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: the British in Bengal
REVIEW
Reviewed by Jon Wilson, King’s College, London – *** In the course of a single generation, the British empire was transformed from being a network of self-governing Atlantic communities into a cluster of largely Asian territories acquired, for the most part, through conquest. As countless historians note, the second half of the eighteenth century saw an ‘epochal shift in world power’. For many scholars it was this period which saw the ‘foundations of modern colonial empires’ (p. 2). For some, it marks the beginning of forms of imperial domination which continue into our present. Robert Travers opens his elegant and well-argued account of this initial period of imperial rule in India by noting how startled British contemporaries were by the extension of European sovereignty in the subcontinent. Edmund Burke called the rise of British power in India one of the most ‘stupendous revolutions that have happened in our age of wonders’ (p. 1). The demise of the Mughal empire and its successor states, and the growth of European authority in Asia, created shockwaves in the intellectual world of London and elsewhere.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-6145-8; 292 pp.; £50.00

2007

Trevelyan, C.E.

On the Education of the People of India

1838

Trevelyan, G.M.

English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria

Longmans, Green & Co., London

1944

Trevelyan, Humphrey

The India We Left

MacMillan, London

1972

Trevelyan, Sir George

Cawnpore

Macmillan & Co., London

1865

Trevelyan, Sir George

The Competition Wallah

London, n.p.

1836

Trevor, R.

The Last Days of the Raj

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