Subtitled ‘The British Legacy in India’, this coffee-table book was fairly interesting, in that, embarrasingly, I know very little about Indian history, the Raj in particular. It’s split into sections, from a general historical overview to transport and government. None of the sections are particularly detailed, but provide enough of an overview to make me interested in reading more.
The pictures that decorate it are fantastic, with detailed captions, but the prose is tainted with a nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of empire. A fact not hugely surprising given that the author is chairman of a reincarnation of the East India Company.
