Love Stories from the Raj

by Pran Nevile

The british came to india in search of wealth and power but it was a mans world and women, especially english women, were few an english bride for long remained an expensive proposition, costing a small fortune to bring to calcutta, and was quite out of the reach of young career-minded officers and civil servants driven by loneliness, lust or just plain longing, many looked foe companionship among indian women, or where the more rakish among them were concerned, the bored wives of fellow officers but man, reduced to cringing submission by his native housekeeper-mistress fled across the country to board ship for home, pursued all the way in a palanquin by the furious maid

206 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 1995

About the author

Pran Nevile is an Indian author of Indian Art, Indian Culture & Indian History best known for the 1992 book, Lahore - A Sentimental Journey.

His fascination with the performing arts inspired him to spend nearly seven years researching in the libraries and museums of England and the U.S.A. to enable him produce the sumptuously illustrated 'Nautch Girls of India' in 1996. Highly acclaimed by the media it was considered to be a pioneering work on the subject of dance and music as well as their practitioners through the centuries.

Nevile has written extensively for Indian newspapers and journals. He is the author of other well known books such as 'Lahore - A Sentimental Journey', 'Love Stories from the Raj', 'Rare Glimpses of the Raj', 'Beyond the Veil - Indian Women in the Raj', 'Stories form the Raj - Sahibs,' Memsahibs and others', K.L. Saigal - Immortal singer and superstar and lastly 'Marvels of Indian Painting - Rise and Demise of Company School'.

Nevile has been invited by several institutions in India and also universities in England and U.S.A. to speak on themes related to Indian art and culture. He has also acted as a consultant for two BBC documentaries on the Raj viz. 'Ruling Passions' and 'The Land of Kamasutra'.

Reviews

[Risha]

2.5

[hajrah ♡]

so boring i don't care for any of these stories smh

[Poonam]

Few stories and anecdotes of people from Raj era - the British and Anglo-Indians- their dalliances with natives and each other