Charles Allen - Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century

London , Andre Deutsch, 1978. Cloth. An enlightening and interesting collection of memories and recordings of life in the British Raj. This volume offers the tales and stories of some seventy British men and women who lived in Anglo-India for its last fifty years.The anthology is composed from tape-recordings of men and women who lived in the Raj, made for the 1974 BBC Radio 4 program of the same name.The material is arranged by topic and thus enhances the experiences of these people. Charles Allen was also born in the British Raj and conducted more than 250 hours of recorded interviews for the radio program and thus this book. Including twenty-eight photographic plate illustrations. In the original price clipped dustwrapper.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with only some light bumping to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages. In the original price clipped dustwrapper. Some fading to the wraps but remains smart. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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