Days of the Raj: Life and Leisure in British IndiaPramod K. Nayar British India generated the largest imperial archive in the world. From the stacks of administrative reports, minutes, instruction manuals, memoirs, letters, reports, cook-books and travelogues the British left behind, |
Contents
Section 1 | 8 |
Section 2 | 16 |
Section 3 | 30 |
Section 4 | 31 |
Section 5 | 32 |
Section 6 | 36 |
Section 7 | 50 |
Section 8 | 56 |
Section 16 | 133 |
Section 17 | 134 |
Section 18 | 167 |
Section 19 | 180 |
Section 20 | 192 |
Section 21 | 201 |
Section 22 | 244 |
Section 23 | 282 |
Section 9 | 68 |
Section 10 | 93 |
Section 11 | 95 |
Section 12 | 112 |
Section 13 | 122 |
Section 14 | 123 |
Section 15 | 124 |
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Section 30 | 292 |
Common terms and phrases
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