Geoffrey Moorhouse (1931–2009)

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1. Geoffrey Moorhouse

   Author of The Fearful Void, To the Frontier, India Britannica

2. Eric Newby

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5. Aubrey Menen

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6. William Dalrymple

   Author of From the Holy Mountain, In Xanadu, The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters

7. Charles Allen

   Author of Plain Tales from the Raj, Tales from the Dark Continent, Raj, a scrapbook of British India, 1877-1947

8. Gavin Young

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9. Eamon Duffy

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10. Wilfred Thesiger

    Author of Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs, A Life of My Choice

11. V. S. Naipaul

    Author of An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, The return of Eva Peron, with The killings in Trinidad

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13. Fosco Maraini

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14. William W. Davenport

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15. Jonathan Raban

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16. John Blofeld

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17. Rudolph Chelminski

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18. John Cottrell

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19. E. R. Chamberlin

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20. Lyn Macdonald

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