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| Editors | David Gilmour |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | History |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Published | 13 November 2018 |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 640 |
| ISBN | 978-0374116859 |
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The book paints a vivid picture of British people living in India from the seventeenth century until the country's independence in 1947. [1]
Isaac Chotiner, writing for The New York Times suggests, "With [The Book], Gilmour, metaphorical microscope in hand, has written a broad-ranging but precise and intimate examination of the British men and women who served and lived on the subcontinent." [2]
Lomarsh Roopnarine, a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Jackson State University in his review of the book wrote at The Historian (journal) , "The author navigates the social lives of about 150,000 servicemen and women without replicating the previously explored themes of British Raj." [3]
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