Exalted, Eminent and Imperial. Honours of the British Raj
by P. Galloway.
£95.00
Hardback with jacket, 880 pp. & 48 colour plates

The now distant world of the British Raj in India, has fascinatedand enthralled a succession of historians and writers, though thisgreat 'jewel in the crown' of the British Empire lasted for less thanninety years, from 1858 to 1947. During that period a raft ofhonours were instituted to recognise rank and service almostentirely in the subcontinent.

The principal honours - the Order ofthe Star of India, the Order of the Indian Empire and the Order ofthe Crown of India - last appeared in the New Year Honours List1948. For some years they remained a memory, gradually fading tobe no more than historical relics of a departed empire. By thebeginning of the twenty-first century they had disappeared fromthe public mind, and almost all the recipients were dead. This bookis the first comprehensive history of these long-forgottenhonours, which adorned the uniforms of the Indian Civil Serviceand the sumptuous costumes of the Indian princely elite. It opens awindow into a previously unexplored aspect of the British Empirein India.

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