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Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India
Contemporary Review, Jan, 2005
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India. Elizabeth Buettner. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xiv + 310 pages. ISBN 0-19-924907-5. The author's aim is to explore the 'links between transience and the creation of imperial identities ... among Britons' in the Raj between the last decades of the Victorian era and the end of Imperial India in 1947.
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It is a vast canvas and, mixing metaphors, a largely unchartered sea but the author, whose work began as a doctoral thesis, has a wealth of MS. sources and interviews associated with these enterprises. She divides her topic into five broad areas, reflecting her concern with the family: childhood in India; schools in India for those children not sent back home and what she calls 'the acquisition of racial status'; families who were separated as when the wife stayed in Britain; life when children, more often, sons, were sent to school in Britain; the life, often intensely disappointing, of those who returned home from India to live in Britain. She writes with sympathy and understanding and sheds valuable new light on a too often ignored aspect of our Imperial history. (T.B.)
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