The tears of the Rajas : mutiny, money and marriage in India 1805-1905 / Ferdinand Mount
London : Simon & Schuster, 2015. 2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #427647
ISBN: 9781471129452
Physical description; 773 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Aunt Ursie and the elephants -- Low country -- Massacre in a fives court -- White mutiny -- Lord Minto takes a trip -- Tin men -- Mutton and the baronet -- Peshwa's last sigh -- Augusta and John -- Midnight in Lucknow -- Richmond the rescuer -- Short opium war -- Crash city -- Cotton-picking -- Charlotte returns to India -- Theo and Charlotte -- Cherry ripens -- 1857: Theo, Edward, Robert, Malcolm -- Theo at Delhi -- Edward: a sapper's war -- Robert and the Santals -- Ridge and the siege -- Robert and Edward at Lucknow -- Malcolm in the mofussil -- Post mortem -- Homecoming. Subjects; Lows family. Lows family History. HISTORY. India History British occupation, 1765-1947.
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