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Useful Friendship: Europeans and Indians in Early Calcutta
Useful Friendship Europeans and Indians in Early Calcutta
Author: Peter Robb
This book describes how friendship or quasi-friendly behaviour underwrote British life and work in Calcutta before and after 1800, even between patrons and clients, and when personal relations were not amicable. Amid the uncertainties as a new town was created, the parameters of proper behaviour were defined by sociability, trust, and reputation...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198099185
ISBN-10: 0198099185
Publication Date: 1/6/2015
Pages: 293
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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