Author
Title
Publication
Year
Earle, Bernadette
The Indian Summer; Australian Anglo-Indian Stories
Ginninderra Press, ACT
1999
East & Jones
Inbreeding and Outbreeding, Monographs in Experimental Biology
Philadelphia
1919
Eden, Emily
Letters From Up Country, 1837-1840
Bentley, London
1866
Edwardes, Michael
RAJ: The Story of British India
Pan Books Publishing
ISBN: 0330023225
1969
Edwardes, Michael
The Sahibs And The Lotus
Constable, London
ISBN: 009467180X
Edwardes, Michael
Bound to Exile: The Victorians in India.
Praeger Pub., Inc., New York
1969
Edwardes, Michael
British India
Sidgwick & Jackson, London
1967
Edwardes, Michael
Glorious Sahibs
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
1968
Edwardes, Michael
The Last Years of British India
Cassell & Co., Ltd., London
1963
Edwardes, Michael
The Nabobs at Home
Constable & Co., Ltd., Great Britain
1991
Edwardes, Michael
Red Year: The Indian Rebellion of 1857
London
1973
Edwards, Anne
Vivien Leigh Biography (Ygnacio Valley Library, California)
Simon & Schuster, New York
1977
Edwards, Kerry
Our Joyous Days: Historical Sketches of St. George´s Church & School”
This book depicts ‘sketches’ of history of St George’s Church and Schools. St George’s school was founded in 1834 as the first Anglican school in Hyderabad. Christ Church established in 1844 was the forerunner to the building of St George’s Church in 1867 totally from personal subscriptions made by the members of the Anglo-Indian and Domiciled European Anglican Community of Chudderghat. It’s rich heritage and history covers ‘sketches’ of a period from the 1830s to the 1970s, both in text and pictures.
The need for the School was forevisioned by early English missionaries. The Anglo-Indian and Domiciled European Anglican Community of Chudderghat (always known as The Community) and then in the early 1900s the Australian Church Missionary Society’s (ACMS), administered the church and schools until they were handed over by the ACMS in 1962 to the Church of South India Trust.
The book of 440 pages captures personal memories from former school boys and girls and teachers and clergy, along with history and a host of photographs and memorabilia and is a must for all St.Georgians and Hyderabadi students of history.
Limited copies are available at A$50 each (by electronic transfer or $65 bank draft and includes postage and packing) and can be ordered by emailing: kerry.edwards@immi.gov.au
emailing: kerry.edwards@immi.gov.au
Edwards, S. M.
The Bombay City Police
Oxford Univ. Press
1923
Edwards, Thomas
Henry Derozio – The Eurasian Poet, Teacher & Journalist (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Library)
Riddhi-India, Calcutta
1884
Edwards-Stuart, Ivor
The Calcutta of Begum Johnson (Univ. of Washington, Library)
BACSA, London
1990
Egan, Eileen
Such a Vision of the Street
Sidgwick & Jackson, London
1985
Eliade, Mircea
Bengal Nights
Rupa & Co., New Delhi
1950
Elphinstone, Mounstuart
The History of India: The Hindu & Mohommedan Periods
London: John Murray
1849
Elwin, Edward F.
Indian Jottings
John Murray, London
1907
English, Barbara
The War for a Persian Lady
Houghton/Miffin, Boston
1971
Ernst, W.
Mad Tales from the Raj: The European Insane in British India 1800-1858
Routledge, London
1991
Ex, J.
Adjustment After Migration
Nijoff, The Hague
1966
Eyton, John
Kullu of the Carts
Arrowsmith, London
1926
Falkland, Viscountess
Chow-Chow (2 vols.)
Hurst & Blackett, London
1857
Fanon, F.
Black Skin, White masks
London
1968
Farrell, J.G.
The Siege of Krishnapur (1st American ed.)
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York
ISBN 1-59017 092X – New York Review Classics 1973
1974
Farrell, J.G.
Troubles
Jonathan Cape, London
1970
Farrington, Susan
Rawalpindi: Cemeteries & Churches
BACSA
1991
Fay, Eliza
Original Letters from India (1779-1815) (With notes by E. M. Forster)
Hogarth Press, London
1925
Feldback, Ole
India Trade Under The Danish Flag 1772-1808
European Enterprise & Anglo-Indian Remittance & Trade
University of Copenhagem
1969
Fenton, Bessie
The Journal of Mrs. Fenton: A Narrative of Her Life in India, the Isle of France & Tasmania During the Years 1826-1830 (Univ. Calif. Berkely Library)
Edward Arnold, London
1901
Fenwick, C.A.
Essay on Colonization of Hindustan by East Indians
Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta
1828
Field, G.
Prejudice and Impartiality
Methuen & Co., London
1932
Finot
Race Prejudice
London
1906
Fischer, Edward
The Chancy War
Orion Books, New York, NY
1991
Fitchett, W.H.
Tale of the Indian Mutiny
Smith, Elder, London
1904
Fitzgerald, Valerie
Zemindar
The Bodley Head
1981
Fitzroy, Yvonne
Courts and Camps in India
Methuen & Co., London
1926
Fleming & Tully
Laurence Fleming & Sir Mark Tully
Last Children of the Raj: Volume II
Here is a unique entry-point into British and Indian social and cultural history in the last and momentous period in the history of the Raj. It is a vivid collection of individual memories of children born between 1914 and 1940 and who spent their childhood and adolescence in British India or the Princely States. It includes details of the roots in India, family connections, friendships with other British and Indian children, journeys, adventures, questions of color and race, and impressions of the Raj. The Second World War forms a natural break–war-time India, Independence and Partition, and the postwar return–how did they feel about the new India, and what had India given them and what did they give to India?
About the Author Laurence Fleming is one of the last children of the Raj with strong family connections and has edited and contributed to this collection.
Radcliffe Press
ISBN: 186064872X
November 25, 2004
Fletcher, John Wedge
Ackland the Anglo-Indian
Liddell’s Printing Works, Allahabad
Forbes, Archibald
Havelock
London
1891
Forbes, James
Oriental memoirs (2 vols.) (Rev. Edition)
Richard Bentley, London
1834
Forbes, James
Letters Written During 17 Years Residence in India (4 volumes)
London
1813
Forbes-Mitchell
The Gospel of Regeneration of the Anglo-Indian and Eurasian Poor
Calcutta
1900
Forbes-Mitchell
Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59
Macmillan & Co., London
1893
Forjett, Charles
Our Real Danger in India
Cassell Petter & Galpin, London
1877
Forrest, G. W., (ed.)
Selections from the State Papers of the Governors-General of India (2 vols)
B. H. Blackwell, Oxford
1910
Forsyth, Frederick
The Fist of God
Bantam Books, New York
1994
Foster, Mrs. K. B.
The Story of the Eurasian
Foster, William
A Guide to the India Office Records
India House, London
1919
Fowler, Marian
Below the Peacock Fan First Ladies of the Raj
Viking Penguin Inc.
1987
Fox, Jennifer
In The Shade Of Kanchenjunga
BACSA
ISBN 0907799493
Francklin, William
Military Memoirs of Mr. George Thomas (University of California Library)
John Stockdale, Piccadilly
1805
Fraser, Baillie J.
Military Memoirs of Lt. Col. James Skinner (2 volumes)
Smith Elder & Co., London
1851
Fraser, Eugenie
A Home by the Hooghly: A Jute Wallah´s Wife
Mainstream Publishing Co. Ltd., Great Britain
1989
Fryer, John
A New Account of East-India and Persia
R. Chiswell, London
1698
Fuller, B.
Studies of Indian Life and Sentiments
1910
Furber, Holden
John Company at Work (Univ. of Calif. Davis Library)
Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge
1951
Gabb, Alfred D.F.
1600-1947 Anglo-Indian Legacy A Brief Guide to British Raj India History, Nationality, Education, Railways & Irrigation
Alfred D.F. Gabb
1998
Gaikwad, V.S.R.R.
The Anglo-Indians: Caste and Kin in Nepal, India and Ceylon
Asia Publishing House, Bombay
1967
Gaikwad, V.S.R.R.
The Anglo-Indians: A Study in the Problems & Processes Involved in Emotional & Cultural Integration (The Univ. of Illinois & San Francisco State University Libraries)
Asia Publishing House, London
1967
Gantzer, Hugh & Colleen
The Year Before Sunset: A Novel
Penguin Books India
April 2005
Gardner, Alexander
Military Memoirs of Alexander Gardner (Ed. by Major Hugh Pearce)
Wm. Blackwood & Sons, London
1898
Gardner, Brian
The East India Company
McCall Publ. Co., New York
1972
Gaur, N.
Grey Pigeon and Other Stories
Penquin Books
1993
Gawke, Daphne
Flashbacks
Evalt Graphics, England
1995
George, T.J.
The Briton in India
Madras
1935
Ghose, Sudhin
The Vermilion Boat
Michael Joseph, London
1953
Ghosh, S.C.
The Social Condition of the British Community in Bengal 1757-1800
E. J. Brill, Leiden
1970
Gibson, Guy
Enemy Coast Ahead (Fresno State Univ. Library)
Michael Joseph, London
1946
Gillespie, Leslie
The Man from Madura
T. V. Boardman & Co., Ltd., London & New York
1952
Gillespie, Susan (Pseud. Edith Constance Turton-Jones)
Cantonment
G. Bles, London
1936
Gilmour, David
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life Of Rudyard Kipling
John Murray
Gilmour, David
The Ruling Class: Imperial Lives In The Victorian Raj
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0374283540
2004
Gist, Noel P. and Dworkin, Anthony
The Blending of Races: Marginality and Identity in World Perspective
Wiley Interscience, New York
1972
Gist, Noel P. and Wright, Roy Dean
Marginality and Identity: Anglo-Indians as a Racially Mixed Minority in India (Learning Resource Center, Central College, Pella, Iowa 50219)
E. J. Brill, Leiden
1973
Godden, Jon
The City and the Wave
Michael Joseph, London
1954
Godden, Jon and Rumer
Two Under the Indian Sun
Readers Book Club, London
1966
Godden, Rumer
Kingfisher´s Catch Fire
Milkweed Editions Reprint
February 1994
Godden, Rumer
Black Narcissus
Little, Brown & Co., Boston
1939
Godden, Rumer
The Lady and the Unicorn (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Library)
Peter Davies, London
1938
Golant, W.
The Long Afternoon: British India, 1601-1947
Hamish Hamilton, London
1975
Goldbourne, S. Macfarlare, J. (ed.)
Hartley House Calcutta (New Ed.)
Thacker Spink, Calcutta
1908
Goldenberg, S.
Thinking Sociologically
Belmont, CA
1987
Gopal, Ram
How the English Occupied Bengal
Gopal, S.
British Policy in India 1858-1905
Univ. Press, Cambridge
1965
Gopal, S.
Viceroyalty of Lord Ripon 1880-1884
Oxford Univ. Press, London
1953
Gordon, Constance
Anglo-Indian Cuisine and Domestic Economy
Gordon, Noel
Made in India: A Chronicle of Childhood
Cervisian Press
2000
Goswami, B.B.
Marriage in India: Tribes, Muslims & Anglo-Indians
Govt. of India, Calcutta
1988
Gouda, F.
Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies 1900-1942
Amsterdam
1995
Gould, Tony
Strangerland: A Family At War by Helena Drysdale
REVIEW:
Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar, Nagpur, India.
Strangerland is an exercise in family history. Helena Drysdale set out to write the story of a forebear who pursued a career as a colonial governor, but ended up focusing on another branch of the family. Born nearly a decade earlier than Queen Victoria, Isabella Gascoyne, née Campbell, survived her by more than a year.
She spent the first, productive part of her adult life in India, the land of her birth, where she gave birth to nine children, seven of whom survived infancy.
Her husband Charles was a cavalry officer in the service of the East India Company who distinguished himself in the First Sikh War of 1845-46, but was so appalled that he yearned for pastures new – and they didn´t come newer than New Zealand, whose pastures still had to be hacked out of the hills and plains. According to a book Charles read, this recent addition to the British Empire was just the place for a penniless but enterprising ex-officer.
Isabella, recuperating from the birth of her ninth child, was the last to learn about the proposed career move; her children and their governess, Amelia Sutherland, all knew before she was told. She was tired of travel and, now that Charles´s peripatetic military existence was over, had hoped they would settle high up in the Himalayan foothills. But Charles brushed aside her wishes. The family was going to New Zealand, though Isabella was sent home to England on doctor´s orders. Another year would pass before the family was reunited.
PICADOR Publishers
0870 – 079 – 8897
2006
Graham, Maria
Journal of a Residence in India
George Ramsay & Co., Edinburgh
1812
Graham, Rev. J.A.
On The Threshold of Three Closed Lands: The Guild Outpost In The Eastern Himalayas
The Guild Outpost
Edinburgh/London
Available from Asian Rare Books, New York
1905
Grand, G.F.
The Narrative of the Life of a Gentleman Long Resident in India
Calcutta Historical Society
1910
Grant, Colesworthey
Anglo-Indian Domestic Life: A Letter From an Artist in India to His Mother in England
Subarnarekha, Calcutta
1984
Grant, Colesworthy
W. Thacker & Company, London
1860
Greenberger, Allen J.
The British Image of India: A Study in the Literature of Imperialism 1880-1960
Oxford Univ. Press, London
1969
Greenwood, Nicholas
Shades of Gold and Green Anecdotes of Colonial Burma 1886-1948
Asian Educational Services, New Delhi
1998
Grey, Charles
The Merchant Venturers of London
H.F.& G. Witherby, London
1932
Grey, Charles & Garrett, H.L.O.
European Adventurers in Northern India, 1785-1894
Superintendent of Govt. Printing, Lahore
1929
Griffin, Sir Lepel
Ranjit Singh (Rulers of India Series)
Clarendon Press, Oxford
1893
Griffiths, Percival
To Guard My People: A History Of The Indian Police
Benn, London
ISBN: 0510269427
1971
Grimwood, Ethel St.Clair
My Three Years In Manipur & Escape From The Recent Mutiny
London: Bentley
1891
Gupta, A.C.
Studies in Bengal Renaissance
Jadaupur: The National Council of Education
1958
Gupta, Mary Ann Das
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1808-1831), Anglo-Indian Patriot and Poet (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Library)
Derozio Commemorative Committee, Calcutta
1973
Gupta, Partha S. & Despande, A.
The British Raj and Its Indian Armed Forces 1857-1939
Oxford Press
2001
Gupta, Shiva Kumar
Marriage Among the Anglo-Indians
Luckman Ethnographic & Folk Culture Soc.
1968
Guy, Alan J. & Boyden, Peter B.
The Indian Army 1600-1947: Soldiers Of The Raj
National Army Museum
ISBN 0-901721-35-2
April 1998
Handa, Rohit
A Twisted Cue
It is a story, among many other things, about an Anglo-Indian army officer, Lt. Col. ( later Brigadier) Quintin Reginald “Mulkally” Oxley-Protheroe MC, MVC, Commanding Officer 38 Guards during the 1965 war.
A Twisted Cue is a novel that delves deep into the inner psyche of India. Cultural values, origins, status and the codes of gentlemanly English-speaking Indian society are all explored, including the complicated restrictions of those who live within it. All this is done with wit, a sharpness and verve that make A Twisted Cue a memorable work.
The twice-decorated Lieutenant-Colonel Quintin Reginald Mulkally Oxley-Protheroe, an Anglo-Indian Commanding Officer of an elite Guards battalion is on holiday in Kasauli, a cantonment town in the Simla Hills, on the eve of international hostilities. Whilst searching for an epitaph in a derelict cemetery for his white forefather’s grave, he sees the need to revivify the Hindu side of his bloodline-which lacks the will to wash down curry with bloody water to win battles, as his British ancestors had done while fighting the wars that unified India.
Mulkally’s holiday continues in Delhi where he meets Erica Green, a young woman of his own community, and accidentally rekindles a friendship with Narayani, who nursed him for an injury in an earlier war. The story is told as Mulkally gets involved in the 1965 India-Pakistan conflict which, besides disrupting a romance on the rise, ends in a stalemate which is not to the satisfaction of those who had hoped for more. A twisted cue leads to depression for some officers, with Mulkally departing for another continent where he unexpectedly meets one of the women from whom he was parted by the war.
Ravi Dayal Publishers
ISBN: 8175300493
January 2003
Handley, Mrs. M. A.
Roughing It in Southern India
Edward Arnold, London
1911
Hanley, Gerald
Hartley House
Thacker, Spink & Co., London
1789
Hanley, Gerald
The Journey Homeward
Collins, London
1961
Hansen, August Peter
Memoirs of an Adventurous Dane in India 1904-1947
BACSA Putney, London
1999
Hardgrave, R.L.
Indian Government and Politics in a Developing Nation, Third Edition
Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, Sidney
1980
Hardless, H.
The Indian Gentleman´s Guide to Etiquette
1919
Harris, John
The Indian Mutiny
Granada Publ. Ltd., London
1973
Hart, Rev. W.H.
Old Calcutta
Calcutta
1895
Harvey, Andrew
The Making of an Anglo-Indian Mystic
1993
Harvey, Andrew
A Journey in Ladakh
Houghton Mifflin Co.
1995
Harvey, Robert
Clive: The Life and Death of a British Emperor
Hodder & Stoughton, London
1998
Haseler, S.
The English Tribe: Identity, Nation, and Europe
St. Martin´s Press, New York
1996
Hawes, Christopher
Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833
Curzon Press, Richmond, Surrey
1996
Hawkins
The Hawkins´ Voyages during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth & James I (Ed. by Clements R. Markhan)
Hakluyt Society, London
1878
Hayde, Brig. D.E.
Blood and Steel
Trishul Publications, Dehradun, India
1989
Heber, Reginald
Heber´s Journal: Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825. (3 vols.) (New Ed.)
John Murray, London
1827
Hedges
The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (Ed. by Colonel Henry Yule) (3 vols.)
Hakluyt Society, London
1889
Hennessy, Maurice
The Rajah from Tipperary
St. Martin´s Press, New York
1971
Henriques, F.
Children of Caliban: Miscegenation
Secker & Warburg, London
1974
Herne, Tony
FAREWELL RAJ: Witness To End Of Empire
The retired British settlers were split two ways – “Let’s get the hell out of here before we are all slaughtered in our beds”, many armed themselves with pistols and shotguns; the other half remained complacent; “Sit tight – we’ve seen all this before, it will blow over in a few weeks and life will go on just the same”. The Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs who were caught on the wrong side, were quite definite in what they had to do. They had to move to the other side as quickly as possible.
Synopsis
Tony Hearne, just a young man at the time, bore witness to political intrigue, acts of great courage and determination and sickening atrocities. These images and this story have lived with him all his life.
This tale charts a vivid adventure, which no man would have willingly sought, but which brings to life a passionate period in history which has changed the political contours of India and Pakistan and the lives of the people.
The words will resonate with many an old soldier and maybe provide an insight to a younger generation who perhaps cannot imagine living in such fearful and tumultuous times. £1.00 from the cover price of every book will be donated to The Royal British Legion.
Tommies Guides,
East Sussex, ENGLAND
February 2009
Heron, S.F.
Anglo-Indians and Eurasians
Staton Press Simla
1881
Hervey, Captain Albert
Ten Years in India (2 vols.)
William Shoberl, London
1850
Hervey, Captain Albert Allen, Charles (Ed.)
A Soldier of the Company Life of an Indian Ensign 1833-1843 (Sonoma County Library)
Michael Joseph in Assoc. with the National Army Museum, London
Hibbert, C.
The Great Indian Mutiny
Penguin Books, Victoria
1986
Hickey, William
Memoirs (4 vols.)
New York
1925
Higginbothan, J.J.
Men Whom India Has Known Biographies of Eminent Indian Characters
Higginbotham & co., Madras & London
1874
Higham, Charles & Roy Moseley
Princess Merle: Merle Oberon´s Life Story
Pocket Books, New York, NY
1983
Hill, S.C.
The Life of Claud Martin (Founder of the La Martiniere Schools) (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Library)
Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta
1901
Hill, S.C.
List of Europeans and others in Bengal in 1756 at the Time of the Siege in Calcutta
Calcutta
1902
Hill, S.C., editor
Bengal in 1756-57 (Indian Records Series) (3 vols)
John Murray, London
1905
Hilton, Edward H.
The Indian Mutiny – Oudh & Lucknow 1856-57
Calcutta
Hobson
Anglo-Indians and Communal Representation in Young Men of India
1926
Hockley, William Browne
The English in India and other Sketches (The British Library and Oriental & India Office Collections)
Longman, London
1835
Hockley, Wm B.
The Widow Of Calcutta: The Half-Caste Daughter and Other Sketches
D.N. Carvalho
ASIN: B0008BSYJU
1841
Hodges, William
Travels In India: During 1780-1783
Quarto
1794
Hodson, Rev. George H.
Twelve Years of a Soldier´s Life in India
John W. Parker
1859
Hodson, V.C.P.
List of Officers of the Bengal Army: 1758-1834
Constable & Co., London
1927
Holman, Denis
Sikander Sahib: The Life and times of James Skinner 1778-1841
Heinemann, London
1961
Holmes & Co.
The Bengal Obituary (Brigham Young University Library)
Punthi Pustak, Calcutta
1848
Holmes, C.
A Tolerant Country?: Immigrants, Refugees, and Minorities in Britain
Faber & Faber
1991
Holmes, Richard
SAHIB: The British Soldier In India
Sahib is a broad and sweeping military history of the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that vast and dusty continent, bore their children and, all too often, mopped their brows as they died. Although wealth and status meant a great deal in British India, it was a place that slew the colonel or his daughter as easily as it did the sergeant or his.The bloody battles that gave Britain control of the subcontinent left just as much grief in the lines as in officers´ bungalows. It is a book about British soldiers in the broadest sense – from Sahib-log of the most refined sort to gora-log, red of face and coat, intent on mischief in the bazaar. Richard Holmes, one of Britain´s leading military historians, begins with India´s rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive´s victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of th eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century´s end.With its focus on the experience of ordinary soldiers, Sahib explains why soldiers of the Raj joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived.
ISBN: 0007137532
Holt, Peter
In Clive´s Footsteps (Alhambra Public Library, CA)
Hutchinson, London
1990
Hoole, Elijah
Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, London
1829
Hough, R.
Edwina: Countess Mountbatten of Burma: A Biography
Quill/William Morrow, New York
1986
Howison, John
European Colonies in Various Parts of the World
Richard Bentley, London
1834
Hubel, Teresa
Duke University Printers
ISBN: 0822317184
Huggins, W.
Sketches in India
John Letts Jnr., London
1842
Hughes, Thomas
Tom Brown´s Schooldays
Jaico Publishing House, rpt. Bombay
1857
Hunter, Sir William W.
The Indian Empire: Its Peoples, History and Products
London: Smith, Elder
1893
Hunter, William W.
Annals of Rural Bengal (7th ed.)
Smith, Elder & Co., London
1897
Hunter, William W.
England´s Work in India
Christian Venacular Ed. Soc., Madras
1888
Hunter, William W.
A History of British India (2 vols.)
Longmans Green & Co., London
1899
Hunter, William W.
The Old Missionary
Anson, D.F. Randolph & Co.,
1897
Hutchins, Francis G.
The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism in India
Princeton University Press, Princeton
1967
Hutchinson, Lester
The Empire of the Nabobs
George Allen & Unwin
1937
Hutton, J. H.
Caste in India
Cambridge Univ. Press
1946
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Chatto and Windus, London
1932
Huxley, Aldous
India´s Minorities
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Delhi
1948
Hyam, Ronald
Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience (Univ. of Calif. Irvine Library)
Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester
1990
Hyland, Paul
Indian Balm
Review
“´As pungently aromatic as a Madras curry´ Sunday Telegraph ´Books of the Year´ ´Indian Balm sheds vivid and dramatic light on this unsung Indian province. A richly rewarding read.´ John Keay ´Paul Hyland went off the tourist track and up the river his forebears adopted…His experiences – good, bad and never less than colourful – are revealed in Indian Balm which captures the spirit of this south eastern area of the subcontinent and makes a thoroughly engrossing read.´ Choice, ´Book of the Month´”
Product Description
From an award-winning author whose books have all become modern classics, “Indian Balm” is written beautifully – witty, poetic, informed, full of colour and insight. It is a fascinating journey through past and present India, explaining a region far off the beaten track. “Indian Balm” is the captivating account of a journey Paul Hyland made along the little-known course of the sacred Godavari river in Southern India: a pilgrimage through both his past and India´s present. It is the story of the search for his ancestors, missionaries and traders, who settled in the region generations ago and of their Balm – a wonder cure for all sorts of ailments and afflictions. It is also a fascinating and enlightening journey through India today. Wading through the country´s contradictions and irritations, its ugliness and its beauty, Hyland encounters both the exotic and the commonplace. He meets snake charmers and sadhus, bogi men and horn dancers, witnesses ancient rituals and observes the most simple aspects of daily life. Indian Balm is an extraordinary and, above all, unique journey – vivid, intimate and revealing – travel writing at its colourful best.
ISBN-10: 1845110854
2005