num_pages: 240
description: This entertaining account of the English in India studies the behavior and the customs of the English from the very first connections down to the end of the eighteenth-century. It attempts to trace and account for the various phases of the development of the social life of the English ineighteenth-century India. The author, 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 .
language: English
title: The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India
titlecomplete: The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India (Oxford India Paperbacks)
genres: India
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Oxford University Press