TY - BOOK AU - Gilmour,David TI - The British in India: a social history of the Raj SN - 9780374116859 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - British KW - India KW - Social life and customs KW - History KW - British occupation, 1765-1947 N1 - Published in Great Britain in 2018 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, as: The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience; Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-578) and index; Introduction -- Part one. Aspirations. Numbers-- Motivations -- Origins and identities -- Imperial apprentices -- Voyages and other journeys -- Part two. Endeavours. Working lives : insiders -- Working lives : the open air -- The military life -- Part three. Experiences. Intimacies -- Domesticities -- Formalities -- Singularities -- At ease -- Last posts -- Envoi N2 - Explores the lives of the British in India from the seventeenth century to Independence, profiling the everyday realities of everyday British people, including missionaries, East India Company employees, and forestry officials ER -