Out of India: A Raj Childhood
by Michael Foss
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Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. Here, beautifully evoked, is a childhood spent amongst grudging and unloving English relations; a sufferance of cruelly harsh schooling, a bleak, dank landscape; and a sense of permanent cold and a savage hunger even for dreadful food. All of this was suddenly changed for the sub-continent's jumble of conflicting show more sights and sounds and smells: the vital, stinking, hot, noisy, crowded streets; the calm, quiet grace of moghul architecture; the ancient Hindu kingdoms reduced to stones amid the roots of trees; the monumental Victorian buildings that echoed British power; the attitudes of the Raj; the self-conscious majesty and pomp. show lessTags
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Michael Foss has studied and taught history in both England and the United States. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Search for Cleopatra, The Founding of the Jesuits, The Borgias, and The Greek Myths.
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- British India; India
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- British Raj (1857 | 1947)
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