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9780907871095

Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian : The Lively Narrative of a Victorian District Officer

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  • ISBN13:

    9780907871095

  • ISBN10:

    0907871097

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-01
  • Publisher: Eland Pub Ltd
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $35.00

Summary

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 dissolute Englishmen. Vivid and candid tales from a huge bureaucracy, In rich descriptive prose

Table of Contents

Preface 11(2)
Ancestors
13(13)
Childhood, 1837--1844
26(16)
Merchant Taylors', 1847--1855
42(15)
Haileybury, 1856--1857
57(15)
Leaving for India, 1858
72(7)
Calcutta, 1858--1859
79(13)
Panjab-Gujrat, 1859
92(17)
Marriage, 1860
109(11)
Ambala and Ludiana, 1861
120(8)
Shahabad and Purnea, 1861--1862
128(18)
Purnea, 1862--1864
146(13)
Purnea, 1865--1866
159(11)
Champaran, 1866--1867
170(16)
Home Leave, 1868
186(4)
Balasore, 1869--1870
190(16)
Balasore, 1871--1873
206(11)
Cuttack, 1873
217(12)
Cuttack, 1874
229(18)
Cuttack, 1875--1877
247(28)
Chittagong, 1878--1879
275(26)
Epilogue 301(7)
Christopher Cooke
Index 308

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