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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. How the British lived in the time of the Raj (  ) GlenRalph | Jul 24, 2009 |  Many - possibly all the participants in Charles Allen's oral history will now be dead, and yet their voices come through clearly, full of reminiscence of a bygone age. This is a very readable and compelling book and quite poignant as it recreates life during a time which has often been romanticised. The truth of course is quite different, and athough there were privileges there were also hardships, and life was not always easy. There was also a terrible snobbery, and the conventions and traditions of various sections of society were petty and suffocating. Heaven-Ali | Apr 8, 2009 | Curious collection of memories and stories from pre-independence India. Interesting to compare this with the fictionalized tales of Kipling (not to mention Harry Flashman) and my own visits to modern India. jjones42 | Dec 6, 2007 | What an interesting book. It's based on a BBC radio series broadcast in 1974. They interviewed men and women who actually lived in India during the period of the British Raj. ( ) practicalkatie | Jul 22, 2007 | This book is the result of oral histories of some of the participants of the Raj, including Lady Lawrence - who likely was in her 90's when interviewed. Lawrence nee Napier, was a well-known British novelist who married a member of the ICS (Indian Civil Service) and wrotean account of her time in India that historian Margaret MacMillan called (the one that) stands out among the hundreds of memoirs of the Raj with its wit, intelligence, and understanding. She writes with a clarity and elegance that help to bring that vanished world alive. I was able to secure the reprint rights and in 1991, reprinted Lady Lawrence's Indian Embers. In Plain tales of the Raj, you catch an insight into that remarkable period. (  ) dustuck | May 1, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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