Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian

These memoirs were discovered in the 1950s when the authors grandson was sifting material for Philip Masons The Men Who Ruled India. Beames arrived in the sub-continent just after the Mutiny, and stayed for the next thirty-five years. Unlike most diarists of the Victorian Raj, he was completely outspoken and wrote plain lively prose. The result is probably the most vivid description of a District Officers life in India.John Beames is the author of 'Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian', published 2004 under ISBN 9780907871095 and ISBN 0907871097.