The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth-century India (Oxford India Paperbacks Series) - Softcover

From precarious early settlements to the genteel age of Cornwallis and Wellesley, this is entertaining account of the English in India. T. G. P. Spear seeks to treat the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India as a connected whole, attempting to trace and account for the various phases of its development. The book presents a vivid picture, full of colour and movement, of the life and manners during these different phases. The eight illustrations included here are taken from contemporary sources.

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.