Author: Sidney Laman Blanchard
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 612
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171675484
Description
A collection of delightful essays of life in India in the mid nineteenth century, this book brings to life the life and times of European families and their interactions with their Indian counterparts. In the second section of the book scene shifts to the banks of the Seine, to life in Paris.
The Ganges and the Seine is a collection of delightful essays of life in India in the mid nineteenth century. Apart from garrison gossip and civil service 'shop', there is much to be seen and experienced in most places where the officers of the British empire were quartered in India - from provincial towns to bigger cities like Agra
The book brings to life the life and times of the British experience in India, other than its administrative and governmental aspects. It is about the life and times of European families and their interactions with their Indian counterparts
In the second section of the book the scene shifts to the banks of the Seine, to life in Paris in the mid 19th century - with its balls, its student life, its artistic and literary activities, its flower girls, its bohemian lifestyle, wining and dining, horse racing etc. - and all that makes for a pulsating vibrant city.
Contents
Preface
THE GANGES AND THE SEINE
SECTION-I
The City of Akhbar Khan
Provincial Life in India
The Santals
The Road in India
India and Cotton
Nil Darpan
British Settlement in India
Famine in India
The Simpkins in India
SECTION-II
The Boulogne of the East
Troublous Time
An Intelligent foreigner at the Andamans
Men and Their Monkeys
Military Colonization in India -- Climate
Paris -- A Ball at the Barriers
Student Life in Paris
The True Bohemians of Paris
Painting the Lily
My Aunt in Paris
The French Flower Girl
Thirty Days of Pleasure for Fifteen Frances
Dining with the Million
A Visit to Robinson Crusoe
French Horse -- Racing
French Revolution in 185
Munchausen Modernized
Autobiography of a Bad Shilling
A Genteel Establishment
Literary Mystifications