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050 4 $aDS428.S36$bA3 1994
100 1 $aScott, Nora.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97000727
245 13 $aAn Indian journal /$cNora Scott ; edited by John Radford.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRadcliffe Press ;$aNew York, NY :$bDistributed by St. Martin's Press,$c1994.
300 $axv, 231 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
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520 $aThis is the edited journal of Nora Scott, wife of Mr Justice Scott, a judge of the Indian High Court in Bombay. She was a gifted painter and she writes as she paints - small delicate detail making up a convincing whole. The journal is much more than just a personal diary; it gives a vivid, sharply observed and often moving picture of the British Raj in the nineteenth century when it seemed to be at its most secure and confident.
520 8 $aNora Scott paints a beautiful and graphic picture of India - the grand views over Bombay city and harbour from Malabar Hill and the islands. She skillfully evokes the atmosphere of Indian weddings, religious processions and festivals. An Indian Journal is also an important piece of social history and shows middle class life in British India, the harmony between the rising Indian middle and professional classes and the elite British Indian Civil Service.
520 8 $aAmong Nora Scott's circle there was respect for, and genuine interest in, Indian religion and culture, and easy social relations. There is no sign of the ugly and intense racism which lurked somewhere under this civilised surface, nor of the triumphalism which grew later in the century. The journals are a sharp-edged vignette of an aspect of Indian history and an important document for scholars as well as for all readers interested in India.
600 10 $aScott, Nora$vDiaries.
650 0 $aBritish$zIndia$vDiaries.
650 0 $aWomen$zIndia$vDiaries.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$yBritish occupation, 1765-1947.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$y19th century$vPersonal narratives.
651 0 $aIndia$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592
700 1 $aRadford, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99070234
852 00 $boff,glx$hDS428.S36$iA3 1994