Childhood in India: Tales from Sholapur
George Roche
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Description for Childhood in India: Tales from Sholapur
Hardcover. The memoirs of George Roche who was born in India in 1915. It provides an account of his early childhood in India, his years at boarding school in England and his career in the British colonial service. Num Pages: 194 pages, b&w halftones, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
George Roche was born in India in 1915 at Manmad in the district of Nasik, Maharashtra. His father, an officer in the Royal Engineers, after war service in East Africa, was responsible for the maintenance of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. For the first 12 years of his life, George regarded India as home, far from ‘that grey place’, England. Like most children of the Raj, he was sent to boarding school in England, an experience he prefers to forget. After the death of his mother from smallpox in 1927, the family went to England. Roche studied at London University. ... Read more
George Roche was born in India in 1915 at Manmad in the district of Nasik, Maharashtra. His father, an officer in the Royal Engineers, after war service in East Africa, was responsible for the maintenance of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. For the first 12 years of his life, George regarded India as home, far from ‘that grey place’, England. Like most children of the Raj, he was sent to boarding school in England, an experience he prefers to forget. After the death of his mother from smallpox in 1927, the family went to England. Roche studied at London University. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
194
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850437918
SKU
V9781850437918
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99-5
About George Roche
Richard Terrell, born in London in 1909, is the son of a former Chief Justice of Bihar and Orissa, the late Sir Courtney Terrell who died in 1938 after only ten years of service. Like George Roche, he is a graduate of the University of London who has seen much of the world, having visited virtually all the countries of ... Read more
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