A volume in the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw Bowen The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories which show that they were much more complex than hitherto thought. Drawing on sources in Britain and India, including contemporary East India Company records, together with oral memories from India illustrated with a number of nineteenth century photographs, the author tells of the murder of the British Resident in the princely state of Kotah; of Indians who opposed the Mutiny, and suffered at the hands of the -mutineers-; of a small, but...
A volume in the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw Bowen The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold s...
During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organized by the Royal Central Asian Society (now the Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their handpicked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia, and Russia with the intention to propose strategies for Britain s postwar international role. The lecturers were chosen for their inside knowledge of these countries. Secrecy surrounded these lectures many of the scripts were marked Secret or Confidential; they were not...
During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organiz...
During the darkest days of the Second World War, a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organized by the Royal Central Asian Society, now known as the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. Lecturers and their handpicked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia, and Russia with the intention to propose strategies for Britain's postwar international role. Secrecy surrounded these lectures--the scripts were not published in the Society's journal, and the audience was warned not to reveal the topics discussed outside the...
During the darkest days of the Second World War, a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organi...
This book includes curious stories of the people who inhabited the exotic and vanished world of Nawabi Lucknow, especially the many rogues and villains, some of them British. Using material not used before and containing a number of previousy unpublished illustrations, it takes a look at the undiscovered side of Nawabi Lucknow.
This book includes curious stories of the people who inhabited the exotic and vanished world of Nawabi Lucknow, especially the many rogues and villain...
