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Purcell, Hugh

 
9780750947879: After the Raj: The Last Stayers-On And The Legacy Of British India
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ISBN 10: 075094787X ISBN 13: 9780750947879
Casa editrice: The History Press, 2011

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The population of India today is 1.3 billion, of whom not more than 20 or so are Britishers who were born there under the Raj and never went home after Independence; a tea planter, a missionary, a businessman ('boxwallah'), a tiger hunter, a taxidermist, an expert on the Anglo-Indian language and a soldier, amongst others. They have grown old with the new India; some have become Indian citizens' they will not come 'Home', as they still call the Uk. Nevertheless, they remember the Raj and, essentially, how their working lives passed on a British legacy which has contributed to the character of India today - its language, its Christian faith, its economy and tourism, its armed forces and its ethnic minority of Anglo-Indians. Hugh Purcell travelled round India and recorded the memories of a dying race that will evoke the memories of thousands of people who have a family connection with the Raj.

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L'autore

Hugh Purcell was a BAFTA-winning film and radio documentary-maker who is now a full-time history author. He has also written The Last English Revolutionary and The Maharaja of Bikaner, visited Inida more than twenty time and taught at the Indian national film school.

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Editore
The History Press
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
075094787X
ISBN 13 
9780750947879
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
304
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