The Competition Wallah.
London and Cambridge. Macmillan. 1864. Stock ID #223978 Set in the decade following the 1857 Mutiny, this work draws on Trevelyan's first-hand experience of India, where his father served as Governor of Madras. When referring to this item please quote stockid 223978.
xii (lacking initial blank) + 452 pp, bound in modern quarter calf over marbled boards by James Ashton, 18.4 x 12.5cm. Spine gilt lettered and ruled in compartments with raised bands, endpapers renewed, text with occasional spotting and browning, title page stained with an old flourish of ink at the foot, a good copy.
Written as twelve fictional letters home from Henry Broughton, a young Cambridge graduate serving in the Indian Civil Service, it offers a lively and often witty portrait of British life in Calcutta and remote provincial stations. Trevelyan comments perceptively on colonial administration, the indigo and opium industries, and the isolation experienced by young British officials. The volume also includes Lord Macaulay’s influential and now controversial 1835 'Minute on Education' (pp. 410–424).
Price: $125.00 AU