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Charles Allen

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Kanpur, India

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Nonfiction, History, Biography

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Charles Allen is a British writer and historian. He was born in India, where several generations of his family served under the British Raj. His work focuses on India and South Asia in general. Allen's most notable work is Kipling Sahib, a biography of Rudyard Kipling. His most recent work, Ashoka: the Search for India's Lost Emperor, was published in February 2012.

Selected works:

Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century (1975)
Raj: A Scrapbook of British India 1877–1947 (1977)
Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century (1979)
A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India (1982)
Tales from the South China Seas: I ...more

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	Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor 3.99 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plain Tales from the Raj really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 1975 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coromandel: A Personal History of South India 3.86 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion 4.20 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier 4.19 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad 3.53 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mountain in Tibet 3.88 avg rating — 145 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 3.74 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from the South China Seas by Charles Allen, Michael Mason (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1983 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth 4.17 avg rating — 96 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Creativity is the essence of fencing.”
― Charles Allen

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“You know what they say about consultants, don't you? They know all the moves in the Kama Sutra but don't know any women.”
― Charles Allen

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“There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. ”
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2013 Empire Challenge: Non-Fiction - History

Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan

7 votes, 23.3%

The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy

6 votes, 20.0%

Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye

5 votes, 16.7%

Wicked Women of the Raj by Coralie Younger

3 votes, 10.0%

White Mischief by James Fox

3 votes, 10.0%

Plain Tales From The British Empire by Charles Allen

3 votes, 10.0%

Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England by Annie E. Coombes

3 votes, 10.0%

The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey

0 votes, 0.0%

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