British India - Voices from an Imperial Past

In the twilight years of the Empire between the two great world wars India was still, as it always had been, the brightest jewel in Britain's Imperial diadem. And then in 1947 came sudden independence. The Raj was divided into two quite new, separate states - India and Pakistan - and the British said a final farewell to the subcontinent that they had ruled for some 300 years. But there are still men and women who can remember their lives and service in India before 1947, and 12 of them-soldiers, civil servants, public officials and their wives - now recall the Indian Empire as they personally experienced it in the first half of the 20th-century.