TY  - BOOK
AU  - Douglas-Home, Jessica:
TI  - A Glimpse of Empire
U1  - 954.035 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Roopa Publications
N1  - Get past this book’s curiously staged cover photograph and you are in for an entertaining read, more so if you are a fan of Raj literature.  Douglas-Home’s book is more romance than literature, though. Crafted from the diary entries of an intelligent beauty of the 1900s, a peer’s daughter nonetheless, A Glimpse Of Empire traces how Lilah Wingfield falls artlessly and utterly under the spell of India. This 23-year-old lady whose family owned one of Ireland’s most stately homes, Powerscourt, gets a chance to attend King George V’s Royal Durbar in India, and she grabs it with both hands. Before you can say ‘Namaste’, Lilah is on the ‘Maloja’, heading East. Given her lineage, she gets a ringside seat to all the events at the 1911 Durbar and happily for us, notes it down in meticulous detail in her diary
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