This entertaining account of the English in India studies the behavior and the customs of the English from the very first connections down to the end of the eighteenth-century. It attempts to trace and account for the various phases of the development of the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India. The author, the late Dr. Percival Spear (1901-1982) taught history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and was the author of The Oxford History of Modern India 1740-1975.
- ISBN10 019564381X
- ISBN13 9780195643817
- Publish Date 1 October 1997 (first published 30 June 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 June 2010
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 226
- Language English