Moorhouse opens his final, post-departure chapter with Eleanor Roosevelt's bewilderment that Americans were now less popular than the British--but he doesn't duck the question of why, in two centuries of rule (""behaving in turns abominably and decently toward the Indians""), they didn't do more. The staples of British India history are here too--from the (misnamed) Black Hole through Kipling and the Mutiny to Congress and Gandhi. There's also a great deal, though, of more-than-mere-color: vivid life.