Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian by John Beames PAPERBACK 9780907871095

Eland Publishing Ltd

Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian\nby John Beames\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John Beames\nTitle: Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Travel writing\nPublisher: Eland Publishing Ltd\nPublication year: 2003\nEdition: New edition\nISBN-13: 9780907871095\nISBN-10: 0907871097\nRRP: \u00A314.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThese memoirs were discovered in the 1950s when the author's grandson was sifting material for Philip Mason's The Men Who Ruled India. Beames arrived in the sub-continent just after the Mutiny, and stayed for the next thirty-five years. Unlike most diarists of the Victorian Raj, he was completely outspoken and wrote plain lively prose. The result is probably the most vivid description of a District Officer's life in India.\n\n-----.