Description
| Product ID: | 9780907871095 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian |
| Authors: | Author: John Beames |
| Page Count: | 334 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Asian history, History, Travel writing, Asian history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Travel writing, India, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating These memoirs were discovered in the 1950s when the author's grandson was sifting material for Philip Mason's The Men Who Ruled India. Beames arrived in the sub-continent just after the Mutiny, and stayed for the next thirty-five years. Unlike most diarists of the Victorian Raj, he was completely outspoken and wrote plain lively prose. The result is probably the most vivid description of a District Officer's life in India. |
| Imprint Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-11-28 |
