RAGTIME IN SIMLA.
Author | : Barbara Cleverly |
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Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Barbara Cleverly |
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Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Barbara Cleverly |
Publisher | : C & R Crime |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1472110897 |
Simla 1922. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age. Commander Joe Sandilands is looking forward to spending a month here in the cool of the Himalayan hills as the guest of Sir George Jardine, the Governor of Bengal. When Joe's travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the back of the Governor's car on the road up to Simla, he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation. Confronted by the mystery of an identical unsolved killing a year before, Joe realizes that Sir George's hospitality comes at a price. Behind the sparkling façade of social life in Simla he finds a trail of murder, vice and blackmail. Someone in this close-knit community has a secret and the nearer Joe comes to uncovering it, the nearer he comes to his own death.
Author | : Doz |
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1913* |
Genre | : Simla (India) |
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Simla (India) |
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Author | : B. Cleverly |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002-09-26 |
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ISBN | : 9781841198880 |
Author | : John Zubrzycki |
Publisher | : Transit Lounge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0995359512 |
It was a scandal that rocked the highest echelons of the British Raj. In 1891, a notorious jeweller and curio dealer from Simla offered to sell the world's largest brilliant-cut diamond to the fabulously wealthy Nizam of Hyderabad. If the audacious deal succeeded it would set the merchant up for life. But the transaction went horribly wrong. The Nizam accused him of fraud, triggering a sensational trial in the Calcutta High Court that made headlines around the world...
Author | : Pamela Kanwar |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
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This book presents an immensely lively and well-documented picture of the social, historical and political development of Simla as hill-station-cum-capital. Drawing on contemporary reports, official documents and personal interviews with old residents of Simla, the book covers roughly the hundred years leading up to India's independence.
Author | : Peter Hopkirk |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192802316 |
Two authors' passion for India and the Great Game.
Author | : Barbara Cleverly |
Publisher | : C & R Crime |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1780337590 |
1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from India, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet, there is a darkness behind all that postwar gaiety. A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong. But the corpse is that of a much-respected member of the British establishment, Dame Beatrice Joliffe, one of the founders of the Wrens, and so Scotland Yard send Joe to conduct a swift enquiry. Her companion, an ex-chorus girl, falls from Waterloo Bridge at twilight. Two of the Dame's clique of eager young Wrens commit suicide. All these deaths make Joe suspect that Beatrice has been killed by someone close to her but suddenly he finds that the case is closed and he is asked by his superiors to surrender his files. Against the background of the looming General Strike, and pressure from unseen governmental presences he struggles on, picking his way through the political panic and rebelling against authority, through to a shattering solution to the killings.
Author | : John MacDonald MacKenzie |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300260784 |
A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial delegates dispersed British cultural forms. Facilitated by the rapid growth of print, photography, film, and radio, imperialists imagined this new global culture would cement the unity of the empire. But this remarkably wide-ranging spread of ideas had unintended and surprising results. In this groundbreaking history, John M. MacKenzie examines the importance of culture in British imperialism. MacKenzie describes how colonized peoples were quick to observe British culture--and adapted elements to their own ends, subverting British expectations and eventually beating them at their own game. As indigenous communities integrated their own cultures with the British imports, the empire itself was increasingly undermined. From the extraordinary spread of cricket and horse racing to statues and ceremonies, MacKenzie presents an engaging imperial history--one with profound implications for global culture in the present day.