The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life In Moghul Delhi
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly layered work of historical non-fiction, The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi presents the intimate memoirs of Emily Metcalfe, daughter of Sir Thomas Metcalfe — the British Resident at the Moghul court of Delhi in the 1840s — alongside the vivid editorial commentary of M.M. Kaye, who spent her own childhood in India. Emily's original journals and her father's remarkable illustrated album, Dehlie Book, together paint an extraordinarily personal portrait of a vanishing world on the eve of the 1857 Indian Mutiny, capturing the opulence, ceremony, and fragile coexistence of British colonial society and the last twilight of the Moghul Empire. Kaye's annotations illuminate the historical and cultural context with warmth and scholarly authority, drawing on her own deep affection for India to bridge the gap between Emily's nineteenth-century perspective and the modern reader. The result is a beautifully evocative and elegiac chronicle of a civilization in transition, rendered in a tone that is at once nostalgic, reverent, and deeply humane.
Author: M.M. Kaye
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Book Club Associates, London
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly layered work of historical non-fiction, The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi presents the intimate memoirs of Emily Metcalfe, daughter of Sir Thomas Metcalfe — the British Resident at the Moghul court of Delhi in the 1840s — alongside the vivid editorial commentary of M.M. Kaye, who spent her own childhood in India. Emily's original journals and her father's remarkable illustrated album, Dehlie Book, together paint an extraordinarily personal portrait of a vanishing world on the eve of the 1857 Indian Mutiny, capturing the opulence, ceremony, and fragile coexistence of British colonial society and the last twilight of the Moghul Empire. Kaye's annotations illuminate the historical and cultural context with warmth and scholarly authority, drawing on her own deep affection for India to bridge the gap between Emily's nineteenth-century perspective and the modern reader. The result is a beautifully evocative and elegiac chronicle of a civilization in transition, rendered in a tone that is at once nostalgic, reverent, and deeply humane.