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This entertaining account of the English in India studies the behavior and the customs of the English from the very first connections down to the end of the eighteenth-century. It attempts to trace and account for the various phases of the development of the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India. The author, the late Dr. Percival Spear (1901-1982) taught history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and was the author of The Oxford History of Modern India 1740-1975.
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The British in eighteenth-century India: first there were the early settlements, small and precarious; then came the kaleidoscopic changes, familiar through Hickey's Gazette; and finally there dawned the more genteel day of Cornwallis and Wellesley, when life was less free and easy than under Warren Hastings, and society became more snobbish. In this entertaining account of the English in India, Percival Spear seeks to treat the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India as a connected whole, attempting to trace and account for the various phases of its development. The book presents a vivid picture, full of colour and movement, of life and manners during these different phases. The eight illustrations included here are taken from contemporary sources. This is the book's first printing since its initial publication in 1932. It will delight all those interested in British life in India, and provide fascinating insights to students and scholars of colonial history.
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