Chalke Talk

The podcast from the Chalke Valley History Festival
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Chalke Talks for SPEAKER: David Gilmour


  • 129. THE BRITISH IN INDIA: THREE CENTURIES OF AMBITION AND EXPERIENCE
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    Distinguished historian David Gilmour traces the lives of hitherto unknown British men and women in India. They include soldiers, officials, businessmen, doctors and missionaries, planters and engineers, together with children, wives and sisters. He describes their work and their extraordinarily varied interactions with the native populations, painting a highly original portrait of three centuries of […]

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