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xviii, 618 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Explores the lives of the British in India from the seventeenth century to Independence, profiling the everyday realities of everyday British people, including missionaries, East India Company employees, and forestry officials.
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590 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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English
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Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom....
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are traveling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancé. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops: an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp comes under attack by bandit Chitu. When the dust settles, it...
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564 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Through the stories of administrators, soldiers and subjects, describes how the East India Company went from a trading company to a quasi-imperial government with over a quarter of a million troops, whose high tax on tea helped spark the American Revolution"--NoveList.
"The popular image of the British Raj -- an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights--chronicled...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
In 1818 India, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are traveling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angélique Bonnet to meet her fiancé. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops : an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu. When...
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