Calcutta in the Cotswolds
David Gilmour: What did the British do for India?, 3 March 2005
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India
by Elizabeth Buettner.
Oxford, 324 pp., £25, July 2004,0 19 924907 5 Show More
by Elizabeth Buettner.
Oxford, 324 pp., £25, July 2004,
“... An Indian career meant that sons hardly saw their fathers once they were no longer infants. As Elizabeth Buettner observes in Empire Families, Sir Adelbert Talbot, the Resident in Kashmir, retired in the same month that his son Addy came out to start his own career in the ICS. Henry Cotton’s grandfather served in Madras from 1801 to 1830, retiring ... ”
