Viceroys
The Creation of the British
Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta b…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4721-2473-9
- EAN: 9781472124739
- Produktnummer: 23096480
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'671 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 x 8pp b/w & colour plate sections
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Christopher Lee
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