# Sahibs’ India

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- Authors: [Pran Nevile](https://www.bookquiver.com/pran-nevile)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2010-11-01

## Description

STEP BACK TO GLIMPSE A BYGONE TIME… Mahlee, dhobie, cook, horsekeeper, Each were to the chokee sent, Last of all the wretched sweeper- Still the Colonel’s liquor went. ‘Devlish odd this!’ said the Colonel ‘What a land to soldier in! Aboo, this is most infernal – Who the blazes drinks my gin?’ Sahib’s India’s is a panaromic look at the lives of the British in colonial India. Culled from Raj literature , it reveals little-known aspects of their lives and their dealings with their Indian subjects. Drawing from contemporary journals, plays and poems, the author provides wonderful descriptions of British homes and servants , their tastes and fashions, cultural idiosyncrasies, profligacy, sports, hunts and shoots, giving us, with the relaxed familiarity of the after -dinner raconteur, a flavour of the period. The book is peppered with a host of characters- astrologers, jugglers, magicians, grass widows, the ‘fishing fleet’, missionaries, nautch girls, mavericks and eccentrics- who made India their home as the British turned from traders to empire- builders, and is interspersed with period photographs, paintings and sketches. Thsi is a delightful evocation of a vanished world.

## Editions

### Sahibs’ India

- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4306-691-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2010-11-01
- Language: en_IN