8vo. 240pp. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, original publisher's pictorial dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to title page: 'To Anne something to read on those extended train journeys but not to be taken as a guide to the sub-continent! Charles Allen Nov '76'.

A presentation copy of Charles Allen's illustrated oral history of the final years of the British Raj prior to Partition, first published in 1975 to accompany the BBC Radio 4 series of the same name.