Published thirteen years after India's emancipation from the British Empire, this book is a fascinating glimpse of the heritage (in the form of social, economic, traditional and linguistic legacies) which the India of to-day 'enjoys.'
Throughout the country, from the old-time tea-planters in the South to the British-trained bureaucrats on the critical mountain border with China in the North, there is to be found something of the Raj's influence. Schools, clubs, civil service, sports, politics, communications - all have, discreetly or openly, knowingly or unknowlingly, assimilated something useful, appealing or, in a few cases, pathetic, of an imperial way of life that has gone for ever....