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Sahib

Richard Holmes

2005572 pagesabout 9–13 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Not Avail · 572 pages · ENGISBN 9780007219414
  • 2006HarperCollins UK · 572 pages · ENGISBN 9780007137541
  • 2006HarperCollins UK · 572 pages · ENGISBN 9780007137534

"[B]egins with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. With its focus on the experiences of the ordinary soldiers, Sahib explains why soldiers of the Raj joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived"--Fly leaf.

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