19th Century India
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Author_John Beames
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First Hand Account
India
John Beames
Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian
Travel Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780907871095
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2003
- Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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These memoirs were discovered in the 1950s when the author's grandson was sifting material for Philip Mason's The Men Who Ruled India. Beames arrived in the sub-continent just after the Mutiny, and stayed for the next thirty-five years. Unlike most diarists of the Victorian Raj, he was completely outspoken and wrote plain lively prose. The result is probably the most vivid description of a District Officer's life in India.
