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Author: Mark Bence-Jones
Publisher: London : Constable
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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This Is A Book About The Viceroys From `Clemency` Canning To Moutbatten; About The Men Who Held An Office Which, In Its Combination Of Responsibility And Splendour Is Without Parallel In Modern History.
Author: Mark Bence-Jones
Publisher: London : Constable
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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This Is A Book About The Viceroys From `Clemency` Canning To Moutbatten; About The Men Who Held An Office Which, In Its Combination Of Responsibility And Splendour Is Without Parallel In Modern History.
Author: Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount)
Publisher: London, Murray
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Christopher Lee
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472124731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta before he left the subcontinent to die shortly afterwards. The average Viceroy lasted five years and was granted an earldom but rarely a sense of triumph. Did these Viceroys behave as badly as twenty-first century moralists would have us believe? When the Raj was over, the legacy of Empire continued, as the new rulers slipped easily into the offices and styles of the British who had gone. Being 'British' was now a caste. Viceroys is the tale of the British Raj, the last fling of British aristocracy. It is the supreme view of the British in India, portraying the sort of people who went out and the sort of people they were on their return. It is the story of utter power and what men did with it. Moreover, it is also the story of how modern British identity was established and in part the answer to how it was that such a small offshore European island people believed themselves to have the right to sit at the highest institutional tables and judge what was right and unacceptable in other nations and institutions.
Author: Arthur T. Pringle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Charles Clive BIGHAM (Viscount Mersey.)
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Author: Archibald Percival Wavell Earl of Wavell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195771282
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Wavell's three and a half year tenure as Viceroy was arguably the most difficult, momentous, and misunderstood that any Viceroy had to face. His journal helps to correct a number of misconceptions concerning this period and leads to a better appraisal of his qualities as a Viceroy and as a man.
Author: Abani Bhushan Rudra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Christopher Lee
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472124731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta before he left the subcontinent to die shortly afterwards. The average Viceroy lasted five years and was granted an earldom but rarely a sense of triumph. Did these Viceroys behave as badly as twenty-first century moralists would have us believe? When the Raj was over, the legacy of Empire continued, as the new rulers slipped easily into the offices and styles of the British who had gone. Being 'British' was now a caste. Viceroys is the tale of the British Raj, the last fling of British aristocracy. It is the supreme view of the British in India, portraying the sort of people who went out and the sort of people they were on their return. It is the story of utter power and what men did with it. Moreover, it is also the story of how modern British identity was established and in part the answer to how it was that such a small offshore European island people believed themselves to have the right to sit at the highest institutional tables and judge what was right and unacceptable in other nations and institutions.
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Publisher: London, Pub. for the government of India by J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Dunbars Delhi, 1911
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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