As rich and varied as India itself, these accounts bring to the reader the Indian perspective on the British Raj. Included are the memories and experiences of more than fifty Indian men and women who worked under the British, made friends with them, and then fought to throw them out. They describe the role of apprentice under the sahibs, the complex racial barriers that divided the rulers from the ruled, the Western education which eventually encouraged rebellion, and the ways in which liberal British political arguments were turned against the Raj by nationalist campaigns to force the British to quit India.
Indian Tales of the Raj
About the Book
Table of Contents
Ancestral Voices
SERVING THE SAHIBS
Bearers of the Canopy
Ruling by Law
Soldiers of Empire
Banyas and Boxwallahs
Spreading the Word
AT ARM'S LENGTH
Joining the Club
Exchanging Cultures
THE LANGUAGE OF PROTEST
Children of Empire
Cradles of Nationalism
QUITIING INDIA
Anger Without Hatred
Imperial Retreat
ABIDE WITH ME
The New Raj
The New Anglo-Indians