The Nabobs: Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth-century India

by Percival Spear

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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