Curry & Rice On Forty Plates Or The Ingredients of Social Life At Our Station in India

by George Francklin Atkinson Captain by George Francklin Atkinson

$450 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt A sharply observed illustrated satire of Anglo-Indian station life, presenting British colonial society in India through forty comic plate by a Bengal Engineers officer. Atkinson's Curry & Rice uses the fictional Bengal station of Kabob as a comic framework for the social types, rituals, amusements, and hierarchies of British India in the years around the 1857 Uprising. The plates move through the official and domestic world

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