Vibrant and original memoirs of a civil servant in India from 1858 to 1893, telling of rapacious planters, improvised fifteen-gun salutes, lofty Rajas and disso

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawe

A history of the British administration in South Asia during the reign of Queen Victoria profiles the India Civil Service and the society they attempted to buil