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Author: Charles Chenevix Trench Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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The Author, A Political Agent, Recounts The Dramatic Tale Of The Indian Political Service From 1919 To 1947. From Records At The India Office, Letters And Diaries Of Fellow `Political`, And Memories Of His Father`S Service And His Own, The Author Composes An Intimete And Entertaining Record Of The Officers Responsible For Relations With The Princely States Of India, The Fiercely Independent Tribes Of The North-West Frontier, And Neighbouring Territories From Aden And Afghanistan To Sinking And Tibet. Cover Board Slightly Rubbed At Edges, Maps On First And Last End Pages, Title Page Has Markings Which Has Been Scratched, Ex-Libris, Number Of Illustrations, 2 Appendices, Text Clean, Condition Good.
Author: Charles Chenevix Trench Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
The Author, A Political Agent, Recounts The Dramatic Tale Of The Indian Political Service From 1919 To 1947. From Records At The India Office, Letters And Diaries Of Fellow `Political`, And Memories Of His Father`S Service And His Own, The Author Composes An Intimete And Entertaining Record Of The Officers Responsible For Relations With The Princely States Of India, The Fiercely Independent Tribes Of The North-West Frontier, And Neighbouring Territories From Aden And Afghanistan To Sinking And Tibet. Cover Board Slightly Rubbed At Edges, Maps On First And Last End Pages, Title Page Has Markings Which Has Been Scratched, Ex-Libris, Number Of Illustrations, 2 Appendices, Text Clean, Condition Good.
Author: Christopher Lee Publisher: Constable ISBN: 1472124731 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta before he left the subcontinent to die shortly afterwards. The average Viceroy lasted five years and was granted an earldom but rarely a sense of triumph. Did these Viceroys behave as badly as twenty-first century moralists would have us believe? When the Raj was over, the legacy of Empire continued, as the new rulers slipped easily into the offices and styles of the British who had gone. Being 'British' was now a caste. Viceroys is the tale of the British Raj, the last fling of British aristocracy. It is the supreme view of the British in India, portraying the sort of people who went out and the sort of people they were on their return. It is the story of utter power and what men did with it. Moreover, it is also the story of how modern British identity was established and in part the answer to how it was that such a small offshore European island people believed themselves to have the right to sit at the highest institutional tables and judge what was right and unacceptable in other nations and institutions.
Author: Charles Chenevix Trench Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
The Author, A Political Agent, Recounts The Dramatic Tale Of The Indian Political Service From 1919 To 1947. From Records At The India Office, Letters And Diaries Of Fellow `Political`, And Memories Of His Father`S Service And His Own, The Author Composes An Intimete And Entertaining Record Of The Officers Responsible For Relations With The Princely States Of India, The Fiercely Independent Tribes Of The North-West Frontier, And Neighbouring Territories From Aden And Afghanistan To Sinking And Tibet. Cover Board Slightly Rubbed At Edges, Maps On First And Last End Pages, Title Page Has Markings Which Has Been Scratched, Ex-Libris, Number Of Illustrations, 2 Appendices, Text Clean, Condition Good.
Author: Richard G. Robbins Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501743090 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
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Wrestling with a would-be assassin, inspecting the toilets in a rural prison, responding to a challenge from his mistress's enraged husband—all these matters could be part of a Russian provincial governor's day. More often, he was entangled in administrative routine, troubled by a steady flow of orders from St. Petersburg, and tormented by complaints from local powerbrokers. What was His Excellency—the tsar's viceroy—a bureaucratic flunky or a harassed politician? Drawing on a broad range of materials in Soviet and Western archives, Richard Robbins here gives us a richly textured portrait of the Russian provincial governors in the last years of the old regime. He focuses on the governors as people and working officials, emphasizing their relations with government bureaucrats, representatives of the privileged classes, peasants, and proletarians. Robbins uses anecdotal evidence to good effect in drawing a vivid picture of provincial life at the turn of the century. He persuades us that the popular image, etched by Gogol and Dostoyevsky, of the governor as incompetent and corrupt, is in need of revision. With convincing detail, he demonstrates that the viceroys of the late imperial period were increasingly professional, and some of them proved to be remarkably skilled politicians.
Author: Ramakoti Sadananada Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540367071 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 843
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006, held in Guilin, China, in August 2006. The book presents 39 revised full papers and 57 revised short papers together with 4 invited talks, addressing subjects from theoretical and methodological issues to applications. Topics include agent models, agent architectures, agent-oriented software engineering, semantic Web service, collaboration, coordination and negotiation, and more.
Author: Bruce Chatwin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101503211 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 103
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Bruce Chatwin’s debut novel: “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic) In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
Author: Charles Chenevix Trench
Author: Charles Chenevix Trench
Author: Christopher Lee
Author: Charles Chenevix Trench
Author: Richard G. Robbins
Author: Ramakoti Sadananada
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Author: W. W. Hunter
Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons