India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire
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‘The core of the book is a virtuoso takedown of cherished shibboleths of Raj...
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Reading Paul Scott: The Raj Quartet and Staying on
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Little Lits are short, sharp introductions to classic works of literature. A study of Scott's four...
A Rising Man
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The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition. Captain Sam Wyndham,...
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The Day of the Scorpion
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BOOK TWO OF THE RAJ QUARTET India, August 9th 1942. The morning brings raids and the arrest by...
The Raj Quartet
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Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and...
Scotland to Shalimar
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Many a loft is full of family memorabilia, but Bryony Hill's collection is extraordinary. Packed to...
And the Twain Shall Meet: Three Countries and Three Generations, a Doctor's Story
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Set between three countries, Burma, India and England, and spanning three very different...
A Passage to India
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A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the...
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
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A fresh perspective on censorship emerges in this elegant history by a superb conjurer of the past....
Eyewitness Accounts: I Was a Tiger Hunter
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'And, as [the tigress] turned her head back, gazing towards the bearers, I aimed at her neck ...and...