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      ST. JOHN'S CHIURCH, CALCUTTA.   21pp. 4to. Stapled booklet. B/w photographs on front and back covers.   Very good.   1987 Caclutta.
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    Allen, Charles (edits).   KIPLING'S KINGDOM. £16    
      His Best Indian Stories.   288pp. Well-illustrated in colour and black and white from contemporary sources. With 29pp introduction and background to each of the 25 stories.   Fine in fine dw.   1987 First edition, Michael Joseph.
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    Allen, Charles.   GOD'S TERRORISTS. £10    
      The Wahabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad.   349pp. Index. Card covers.Mostly covers Islamic fundamentalism in 19th century India with much on the Mutiny and the Frontier.   Fine.   2006 Da Capo Press.
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    Allen, Charles.   KIPLING SAHIB. £15    
      India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling.   426pp. Index. 3 maps and 34 illustrations in colour and b/w.   Fine in fine dw.   2007 First edition, Little Brown.
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    Allen, Charles.   PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ. £10    
      Images of British India in the Twentieth Century.   240pp. 28 b/w photographs. Index of 66 contributors with brief summaries of their postings. Using the interview material collected for the radio series of 1974.   Near-fine in fine dw.   1976 Fourth impression, BBC.
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    Allen, Charles.   RAJ. £12    
      A Scrapbook of British India 1877-1947.   142pp. A collection of annotated pictures and ephemera (adverts, programmes etc) evoking the period.   Fine in fine dw.   1977 First edition, Andre Deutsch.
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    Archer, Mildred and Lightbown, George.   INDIA OBSERVED. £10    
      India as viewed by British Artists 1760-1860.   160pp. Catalogue of exhibition at the V & A in 1982. A valuable basic work of reference on English artists of the period. In card covers.   Very good   1982 First edition, Victoria & Albert Museum with Trefoil Books.
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    Archer, Mildred.   EARLY VIEWS OF INDIA. £50    
      The Picturesque Journeys of Thomas and William Daniell 1786-1794.   240pp. The Complete Aquatints. With 258 illustrations, 33 in colour and three maps.   Fine in very good dw. Small inscription.   1980 First edition, Thames and Hudson.
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    Ashby, Lilian Luker with Whateley, Roger.   MY INDIA. £15    
      Recollections of Fifty Years.   352pp. Growing Up in Bengal and Bihar 1874-1895. Adulthood in Bengal and Orrisa 1896-1913. Steel town at Jamshedpur 1914-1928.   Very good. Boards a little marked but a sound copy.   1938 First edition, Michael Joseph.
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    Aziz, Inam.   STOP PRESS. £10    
      A Life in Journalism.   170pp. Translated from the Urdu by Khalid Hasan. Autobiography of Pakistani journaist who campaigned against military rule.   Fine in fine dw.   2008 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi.
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    Aziz, Khursheed Kamal.   THE BRITISH IN INDIA. £24    
      A Study in Imperialism.   365pp. Index.   Near-fine in like dw.   1988 First edition, Indian Institute of Applied Poliitical Research, New Delhi.
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    Banerjea, Dr Dhrubajyoti.   EUROPEAN CALCUTTA. £24    
      Images and Recollections of a Bygone Age.   352pp. Index. Large 8vo. 80 b/w photographs. A fully up to date account of the buildings with their past and present uses.   Fine in fine dw.   2005 First edition, UBS Publishers, New Delhi.
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    Banerjea, Sir Surendranath.   A NATION IN MAKING. £26    
         420pp. Autobiography of Indian politician who became Congress President and reformed local government in Calcutta.   Very good indeed. An excellent copy.   1925 Second impression, Oxford University Press.
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    Barber, Alan.   MARSYANDI. £12    
      The Illusive River of Annapurna.   127pp. Map. Photographs in colour and b/w. Card covers. Account of the 1980 canoe expedition.   Very good.   1984 for the author.
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    Barnes, Irene H.   BEHIND THE PARDAH. £16    
      The Story of C.E.Z.M.S. Work in India.   264pp. Index.   Very good. Front endpaper removed.   1898 First edition, Marshall Brothers.
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    Barr, Pat and Desmond, Ray.   SIMLA. £45    
      A Hill Station in British India.   108pp. 4to landscape. 46pp text and 59pp of plates of photographs of 19th century Simla.   Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy.   1978 First edition, The Scolar Press.
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    Barrow, General Sir George de S.   THE FIRE OF LIFE. £18    
         256pp. Index. 25 b/w photographs. A cavalry carrer 1884-1928. Service on the NW Frontier, Burma, China and the Western Front, 3rd Afghan War, command of Peshawar District. Units included the Connaught Rangers, the Scinde Horse.   Very good inded.   No date (1940s) second impression Hutchinson.
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    Battye, Evelyn Desiree.   THE FIGHTING TEN. £24    
         240pp. 36 illustrations. Card covers. The story of ten soldier brothers. Six fought in the Mutiny campaigns, others on the Frontier.   Very good internally but front wrapper creased and small section missing from top corner..   1984 First edition, BACSA.
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    Bayly, C.A.   RULERS, TOWNSMEN AND BAZAARS. £16    
      North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870.   516pp. Index. Paperback reprint of seminal book published in 1983. How the British consolidated their rule in the towns of the Ganges Valley.   Fine.   1988 Cambridge University Press.
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    Bayne, Alan.   MADRAS AND BEYOND. £12    
         205pp. Autobiography. Born in Madras, he lived for 34 years in Ceylon. Army, insurance and fast cars. Presentation copy signed by the author.   Fine in fine dw.   1993 First edition, The Book Guild, Lewes.
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    Beames, John.   MEMOIRS OF A BENGAL CIVILIAN. £10    
      The lively narrative of a Victorian District Officer.   312pp. Index. Paperback edition. Memoirs of the Collector and Magistrate at Cuttack and Chittagong from 1873-1879 with his earlier life in India from 1858. Beames' career is discussed by Philip Mason in 'The Men Who Ruled India'.   Fine.   1984, Eland Books.
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    Beaton, Cecil.   INDIA. £18    
         100 full page b/w photographs. Not published in UK in this format.   A little slack. Colour loss to edges of boards. Inscription. Plates very good.   1945 First edition, Thacker, Bombay.
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    Beaumont, Roger.   SWORD OF THE RAJ. £18    
      The British Army in India, 1747-1947.   237pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Study by American military historian.   Fine in fine dw.   1977 First edition, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis/New York.
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    Bellasis, M.   HONOURABLE COMPANY. £12    
         286pp. 17 full-page b/w illustrations. Story of the Bellasis family and their service in India from the 17th to the mid 19th century. Preface by Arthur Bryant.   Very good in worn dw.   1952 First edition, Hollis & Carter.
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    Bence-Jones, Mark.   PALACES OF THE RAJ. £24    
      Magnificence and Misery of the Lord Sahibs.   225pp. Index. 31 photographs. The great houses in which the Governors and Viceroys lived in the cities and hill stations.   Fine in fine dw.   1973 First edition, Allen & Unwin.
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    Bhasin, Raja.   VICEREGAL LODGE AND THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY, SHIMLA. £10    
         32pp. 4to. Card covers. 18 photograps in colour and monochrome.   Fine.   1995 First edition, Shimla.
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    Birdwood, Lord.   A CONTINENT DECIDES. £24    
         315pp. Index. 2 maps. Presentation copy signed by the author.   Near-fine in like dw.   1953 First edition, Robert Hale.
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    Black Tab.   ON THE ROAD TO KUT. £44    
      A Soldier's Story of the Campaign in Mesopotamia.   304pp. 56 b/w photographs. Map. In the original red cloth now a little faded. Service with the Indian Army in Iraq.   Very good. Original owner's name.   1917 First edition, Hutchinson.
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    Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen.   INDIA UNDER RIPON. £35    
      A Private Diary.   343pp. Index.   Very good. Light cloth and spine label darkening.    1909 First edition, T.Fisher Unwin.
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    Bonarjee, N.B.   UNDER TWO MASTERS. £16    
         317pp. Index. Foreword by Philip Mason. Autobiography of English-educated I.C.S officer under British and Indian regimes.   Very good in chipped dw.   1970 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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