Author: ALLEN, CHARLES
Title: Raj : A Scrapbook of British India
Description: Penguin UK. 1984, New Edition. (ISBN: 0140050450) Soft cover. Book, For generation after generation those doughty Victorians and Edwardians were sent out to the great teeming subcontinent of India: to the heat, the smells, the sickness and to a lifestyle that made few concessions to India or to the changing times. it was a world of pukka sahibs and tough burra mems, of Cold Weather Tours, rigidly defined orders of social precedence, dak bungalows, Roorkee chairs, bedding rolls, punkah-wallahs, cholera belts and solar-topees.142p. illus. Near Fine.

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