The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India

by Thomas George Percival Spear and Percival Spear

This entertaining account of the English in India studies the behavior and the customs of the English from the very first connections down to the end of the eighteenth-century. It attempts to trace and account for the various phases of the development of the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India. The author, the late Dr. Percival Spear (1901-1982) taught history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and was the author of The Oxford History...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019564381X
• ISBN13: 9780195643817
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"