Book Description
Plain Tales from the Raj offers the unmistakable tones of some seventy
British men and women whose lives followed the course of Anglo-India through
its last fifty years, from the carefree Edwardian childhood under a blazing sun
to the final loss of confidence and the twilight years of war, the horrors of
Partition, the hurried departures and
the extended regrets. The radio series of the same name is deservedly one of
the most outstandingly popular programmes of recent years, and Jeremy Rundall
wrote appreciatively in the Sunday Times of the ‘authentic, reminiscing voices,
some sad, many drily amusing, all marked for life by the protocol and traditions
of the Raj.