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Women and children: formatting for Brendon title
London: Phoenix, 2006
"This book is about generations of nineteenth and twentieth century children virtually exiled from familiar childhood surroundings, and separated from their parents during their most formative years. From a great quantity of diverse archive material (family letters, diaries, drawings and photos, etc.) as well as face-to-face interviews with survivors of the Raj, the author has constructed a smoothly consecutive narrative of compelling interest. It is a luminous portrayal of a way of life and social attitudes long gone..." The full review by Nora Naish is available on pp.47-49 of FIBIS ''Journal'' 17 (Spring 2007). Read an [http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/extras/VyvyenBrendon_childrenoftheraj.pdf extract] (pdf) from the book, possibly Chapter 1 and this . An article by Brendon with the same title as her book can be read in [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/apac/saalg/issue3.pdf article] SAALG, issue 3 (pdf2006) also called Children of the Raj, ] commencing page on 4, 2006.

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