Lord Curzon: The Last of the British Moghuls PDF
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LORD CUR20N The Last of The British Moghuls LORD CURZON The Last of The British Moghuls Nayana Goradia DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS 1993 Oxford UniversityPress, WaltonStreet, Oxford0X26DP New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi KualaLumpur Singapore HongKong Tokyo Nairobi DoresSalaam Melbourne Auckland andassociatesin Berlin Ibadan © OxfordUniversityPress1993 SBN0195628241 Endpapers:GovernmentHouse,Calcutta,1876, CourtesyIllustratedLondonNewsPictureLibrary. Talepage. VictoriaMemorial, Calcutta. Drawing,byVishwajyotiGhosh. TypesetbyImprinter, C--79OkhlaPhase-I,NewDelhi110020 PrintedbyRekhaPrintersPvt.Ltd.,NewDelhi-110020 andpublishedbyNed0*Brien, OxfordUniversityPress YMCALibraryBudding,JaiSinghRoad,NewDelhi110001 To PrafuU withoutwhom this wouldnothave beenwritten, and Madhavi, Brinda and Gautam Contents ListofIllustrations IX Prologue 1 I TheVictorianScene 13 II KedlestonHall 24 III ImaginedTormentors 33 IV GoldenYearsatWixenfordandEton 50 V ErosEncountered 70 VI OxfordandPolitics 84 VII TalesofTravel 97 VIII GeorgeandMary 106 IX FindesiecleIndia 120 X ‘WeMightasWellbeMonarchs’ 133 XI InPrincelyIndia 148 XII AnImperialistandaGentleman 161 XIII TheGiantAwakes 173 XIV TheyCallHimImperialGeorge../ 186 XV AFatefulAppointment 200 XVI ThePartitionofBengal 210 XVII AHumiliatingRetreat 228 Epilogue 247 AncestryofCurzonofKedleston 258 VIU Contents Acknowledgements 260 NotesandReferences 263 Bibliography 295 Index 303 List ofIllustrations (Onpage145) The‘birdcage’lift,GovernmentHouse,Calcutta.Curzoninstalledthe lift as part ofhismodernizationprogramme. DrawingbyDesmond Doig.CourtesyTheStatesmanLtd, (betweenpages164and16^) PortraitofCurzon,1864,agedfiveyearsold.Hecriedwhenhiscurls werecutoff.CourtesyIndiaOfficeLibrary With MasterArchibald Dunbar, 1872. Hewas a‘greatfavourite’ of Dunbar. Curzon attractedtheattentionofseveralmasterswhowere knowntohavehomosexualtendencies.CourtesyIndiaOfficeLibrary Curzon’s study at Eton, with picture of his mother Lady Blanche Scarsdaleabovethemandepiece.Shehelpedtodecoratetheroom.To Curzonshewas‘very,veryprecious’.CourtesyIndiaOfficeLibrary Curzon’sfather,RevdAlfred,4thBaronScarsdale,1909.Portraitby WilliamLogsdail.CourtesyTheNationalTrust/4thViscountScardsale Lord Scarsdaleplayinghostto Curzon’sSouthportConservatives at KedlestonHall,1890.Yetanimpressionwasbuiltthathisparentswere indifferenttohim.CourtesyIndiaOfficeLibrary Newly-wedGeorgeandMarybeingfetedbyLordScarsdaleatKedles- ton,1895.CourtesyIndiaOfficeLibrary AtacountryhousepartywiththePrinceofWales.Maryisseatedtohis left.CourtesyIndiaOfficeLibrary MaryasVicereine.Tttakesmybreathaway,’shesaid.CourtesyIndia OfficeLibrary
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