Abstract
Although the British Raj officially came to an end on 14 August 1947, not all the British left India. Those who remained did so for a variety of reasons: some to serve in the army of the newly-independent India, others to work in the administration of that country, still others to work in the commercial sector, for both Indian and foreign companies. Some stayed because they loved India and knew no other country, others, because they realised the money they had and the pensions they would be entitled to would not keep them in the same comfort in England as in India.
What galled him most, and this he did talk about, was that histon; would now be revised and rewritten. All dictatorships meddled with history. 1
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Nayantara Sahgal, Rich Like Us (London: Heinemann, 1985), p. 157. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
See Heather Wood, Third Class Ticket (1980; rpt, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), p. 26.
Paul Scott, Staying On (1977; rpt, London: Granada, 1980), p. 86. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
Stevie Smith, The Holiday (1949; rpt, London: Virago, 1979) p. 100.
Janis Tedesco, ‘Staying On: The Final Connection’, Western Humanities Review, 39, no. 3 (1985), 199.
Yasmine Gooneratne, ‘Paul Scott’s Staying On: Finale in a Minor Key’, Journal of Indian Writing in English, 9. no. 2 (1982), 1–2.
Patrick Swinden, Paul Scott: Images of India (London: Macmillan, 1980), p.105.
L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between, (1953; rpt, London: Heinemann, 1963), p.9.
David Rubin, After the Raj: British Novels of India Since 1947 (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1986), p. 154.
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Crane, R.J. (1992). The End of the Old Order. In: Inventing India. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230380080_7
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