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Stories from the Raj takes one
into the lives of Sahibs and Memsahibs, and offers an array of entertaining
tales about their interests and lifestyles – from the Sahibs' enthusiasm for
nautch parties and pig-sticking, to the First Imperial Durbar in Delhi, to
intriguing stories about Brahmin astrologers, and fascinating accounts of
jugglers adept at the great Indian rope trick. Nevile's prose has the relaxed,
easy familiarity of a veteran dinner-table raconteur, and the narrative,
interspersed with period paintings and photographs, transports the reader to
another era – the Raj, its set of cultural idiosyncrasies, and a colourful cast
of mavericks and their eccentricities. |
