Looking back on India / Hubert Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Hubert, 1904-1989.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evans, Hubert, 1904-1989.

Evans, Hubert.

Colonial administrators--India--Biography.

Colonial administrators.

Colonial administrators--Great Britain--Biography.

India--Politics and government--1919-1947.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Totowa, N.J. : F. Cass, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hubert Evans' fascinating memior recounts his time in India and the people and events which shaped the history of the subcontinent. A must read for anyone interested in the history of India and the inner workings of the Raj.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. INTRODUCING BRITISH INDIA; 2. UP-THE-COUNTRY; 1. Reporting for Duty; 2. Camp Dudhi; 3. VILLAGES AND VILLAGERS; 1. Learn before you Teach; 2. A Model Community; 3. The Rural Roundabout; 4. He made Both Ends Meet; 5. The Muslim Variant; 4. THE PRETERNATURAL; 5. CASTE; 6. TO BE A HINDU; 1. Swami Advaitanand; 2. Creed; 3. Point Counter Point; 4. New Testament; 7. THE INDO-MUSLIMS; 1. Islam in India; 2. In the Beginning; 3. With the Passage of Time; 4. The Aligarh Man; 5. 1940; 8. THE MAGISTRATE; 1. Zila Sahib; 2. King Emperor versus Mohan

3. A Backward Glance9. ABOUT PRINCES; 1. Their Chamber; 2. Three on the Front Page; 3. A Seventeen- Gun Prince; 4. Two more Portraits from Memory; 5. The Prince who was Pontiff; 10. DELHI; 1. The Eternal City; 2. Delhi Reconnoitred; 3. To the Province that was a District; 4. Apropos of Viceroys and Vicereines; 5. Home of the Viceroys; 6. My Delhi; 11. WHEN WAR CAME; 1. September 1939; 2. Minding my own business; 3. Taking Time Off; 4. Taking more Time Off; 5. Another Viceroy's House; 12. GANDHI- HIS LOT IS AMONG THE SAINTS; 1. Bapu; 2. An Indubitable Saint; 3. The Call of the Arena

4. 'Do or Die'5. Doing or Dying in Delhi; 13. TWO YEARS TO GO; 1. 'Look here, upon this picture, and on this'; 2. At the House in Agra; 3. The Threshold of Independence; Epilogue; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-135-77884-1

1-280-13878-5

9786610138784

0-203-98798-5

9780203987988

OCLC:

191661915