Exalted, Eminent and Imperial: Honours of the British Raj
Author:
Peter Galloway
ISBN:
9781907427336
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2014
Pages:
880
Size:
21 x 30 x 6 cm
Weight:
3 kg 685 grams
Price:
INR
8140.00
The now distant world of the British Raj in India has fascinated and enthralled a succession of historians and writers, though this great jewel in the crown of the British Empire lasted for less than ninety years, from 1858 to 1947. During that period a raft of honours were instituted to recognise rank and service almost entirely in the subcontinent. The principal honours - the Order of the Star of India, the Order of the Indian Empire and the Order of the Crown of India last appeared in the New Year Honours List 1948. For some years they remained a memory, gradually fading to be no more than historical relics of a departed empire. By the beginning of the twenty-first century they had disappeared from the public mind, and almost all the recipients were dead. This book is the first comprehensive history of these long-forgotten honours, which adorned the uniforms of the Indian Civil Service and the sumptuous costumes of the Indian princely elite. It opens a window into a previously unexplored aspect of the British Empire in India.
Peter Galloway
Peter Galloway is a graduate in history of Goldsmiths College, London. Postgraduate research at king’s College, London, led to the award of a PhD in 1987. After training at ST Stephen’s House Oxford, he was ordained in 1983. He was appointed an OBE in 1996 and was awarded the degree of DLitt by Brunel University in 2009 in recognition of his service to the national community and his outstanding scholarly achievement in his research on the state honours of the United Kingdom. He has been Chaplain of the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy and of the Royal Victorian Order since 2008.