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THE BRITISH IN INDIA A Social History of the Raj By David Gilmour Illustrated. 618 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $35. The United Kingdom’s still-roiling Brexit controversy, with the referendum’s most fervent supporters boasting of an unleashed Britain recapturing imperial-era glory, has tended to leave the messier, bloodier details ofContinue Reading