9789381523070 - letters of a mussoorie merchant von saili, ganesh (1 Ergebnisse)
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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Mauger Fitzhugh Monk was born in the British channel island of Guernsey Forced to leave England after a financial scandal he departed for India where under an assumed name he enlisted as a gunner in the East India Company?s 4th Battalion of Artillery He served there as a soldier but soon made his way up… to the Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie which had then only recently been established and took up work there; initially as a teacher He argumented his teaching work with various commercial undertakings the failure of which pushed him to the edge of bankruptcy After an extremely eventful career in Mussoorie he finally decided to return to England but sadly died suddenly in 1849 at Meerut He recorded the details of his extraordinary life in India in a long series of letters written to his father and other family members in England between 1828 and 1849 They record his army life in the late 1830?s and then go on to give a fascinating and previously unknown insight into everyday life in Mussoorie and Landour during the 1840?s The collection is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in the social life of 19th century British India and in discovering new aspects of the history of Mussoorie in its very earliest days 255 pp.
