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Zustand: New. pp. 248.

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Zustand: New. pp. 30, Frontispiece.

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Zustand: New. pp. 552.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. Exceptionally scarce insight into 1930s Indian mango production and export. Twp insect holes, one from front to back, but otherwise, bar toning to stock, all in good internal order. Chief interest is probably in the photos showing the harvesting, sorting and export processes. Also two pages of colour plates showing mango ripening stages. Library stamp of the Imperial Council Of Agricultural Research to paper covers, but no other library markings. Covers worn and faded to edges. Spine strengthened with yellow tape. 8vo. 32pp + plates.…

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While India has been united for considerable periods of its history the Western worlds have never been united - not since the fall of Rome in the fifth century In spite of appallingly bloody wars the political subdivisions of Europe are seemingly permanent Frontiers have changed only marginally over the past 700 years In India on the hand the states of the present Union are largely artificial It is not that European princes did not overseas All attempts to unify Europe itself under one emperor after the Roman model failed The Holy Roman was an empire only in the name The Emperor in spite of his bombastic titles was scarcely even king of Germany These are some of the questions and paradoxes that the author has tried to answer and explain in this stimulating and thought provoking volume 248 pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. After Aurangzeb Alamgir history has been singularly unkind to the later Mughals Even the school history books do not talk of them But the period with its vicious court intrigues recalcitrant and increasingly independent provincial governors and a ruling class which had become utterly amoral corrupt and unscrupulous makes for a gripping story and fascinating parallels can be drawn with the political scene of today 552 pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: 1. Accession of Siraj ud-Daulahhe seizes the English establishments. 2. Vexations of Siraj ud-Daulahaction taken by the Englishthey retrieve Calcutta defeat the Nawab and impose their peace. 3. The English trust neither Siraj ud-Daulah nor the Frenchtheir intrigues against the Nawabthey attack and take Chandarnagar. 4. Some officers and soldiers escape from Chandarnagar and reach our factory at Cossimbazaarthe English demand our Surrenderthe French are obliged to quit Cossimbazaar. 5. The French detachment arrives at Patnathe English plot against the Nawabbattle of PalassyMir Jafar becomes Subedar death of Siraj ud-Daulahthe detachment is forced to quit the dependencies of Bengal. 6. The emperor Alamgircharacters of the Wazir and Shuja ud-Daulahtheir interests jats pathans.7. The detachment's stay in the dependencies of Shuja ud-Daulah. 8. Manners and customs of the gentiles and the moors. 9. The detachment matches to Delhi--a clash with the jatsjunction with the Shahzada Detachment proceeds to Chhattarpur. By the 1750s the Mughal Empire was but a pale shadow of its former glory. No longer the Great Mughal, of Bernier's day except in a strictly ironic sense the emperor was now a passive non-entity, a prisoner in his own palace, and subject entirely to the will of the wazir who callously disposed of him when he ceased to be useful. He had deposed and blinded one emperor the next he would kill and the heir apparent, Ali Gauhar soon to become Shah Alam II was forced to flee the capital for fear of his life. In the course of his wanderings the fugitive prince ran into Jean Law, the author of this memoir. Law too was a fugitive of sorts. Expelled from Bengal by the English at the start of the Seven Years War in Europe, and accompanied by a small armed detachment of about 300 men and 10 light guns, law had, instead of surrendering, retreated inland, up the Ganges, in the vague hope of finding an ally who, tempted by the wealth of Bengal and aware of the dangers posed by the revolution which the English had effected by the battle of plassey, would agree to drive the English out of Bengal and reinstate the French in their trading posts and settlements. (jacket).…

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Black and white photographic illustrations, 18pp + 5 plates, appendix, index, an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and annotations, endpapers and wrappers patchily browned, little wear stapled wrappers. Department of Agriculture, Bombay. Bulletin No. 158 of 1929.

Black and white photographic illustrations, 30pp, literature cited, an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and labels, little insect damage spine, minor wear wrappers. Department of Agriculture, Bombay. Bulletin No.163 of 1930.

Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 16pp + 6 plates, an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and annotations, endpapers browned, corners bumped, stapled wrappers patchily browned, torn and chipped. Department of Agriculture, Bombay. Bulletin No. 180. of 1938.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. The Ascent of John Company is the story of the founding of the British empire in India. The process of founding empires is rarely, if ever, edifying. It is invariably a sordid story of brutality and violence, tempered to some extent by blatant lies, corruption, skullduggery and intrigue. Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the two names that come most readily to mind when one thinks of the founders, were no heroes in their times. …

Hardcover. Zustand: New. With Greater Mughals, the author has completed his study of the Gurgani dynasty (which was how the Mughals described themselves). He has already covered the later emperors in The Forgotten Mughals. The Europeans spoke of them as the 'Great Mughals', and undoubtedly, the first six of the house fully deserve that appellation. No European dynasty, before or since, has produced such remarkable rulers. Two of them wrote remarkably frank autobiographies, which can still be read with pleasure today. The splendour of their court, their apparently limitless power, and incomparable wealth became legendary, and it would be difficult to find anywhere in Europe's numerous kingdoms, a parallel to Akbar who occupies, indisputably, the first place amongst the rulers of India. While the reigns of the first two padishahs were short, from the accession of Akbar to the death of Aurangzeb we have a span of 150 years, a period sufficient to firmly ground the dynasty. Wars and rebellions mark the excessively long reign of Aurangzeb, but by the time of his death, the dynasty had acquired a legitimacy, which no one, ever seriously disputed. Local chiefs had issues, and they would often take up arms, but no one ever challenged the right of the Great Mughal to rule.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Louis Laurent de Federbe, Comte de Modave, like most eighteenth century Europeans came to India in search of fortune. He failed in his quest, dying under tragic circumstances, but his memoirs were saved and brought back to France. However, it was not until 1971 that Jean Deloche of the Ecole Francaise d'Etreme Orient published a properly collated and annotated text. The memoirs present a fascinating contemporary commentary on the political situation of the rapidly decaying Mughal Empire. His pen-portraits of the Emperor Shah Alam II, of Shuja-ud-Daulah, Mirza Najaf Khan, and his fellow adventurer and compat­riot, Rene Madec are particularly valuable. He spent more than a year at the court of Delhi, and had the opportunity to observe the emperor closely. The latter comes across as kindly, courteous and gentle, essentially a family man, always surrounded by his sons, and never shy of showing his affection for them. The age, however, demanded a warrior emperor, perhaps someone like Aurangzeb, but unfortunately, Shah Alam had no talent or taste for war. The melancholy ruins that marked the twin capitals of Agra and Delhi did not escape the Count s notice. His tone becomes elegiac as he contemplates the prodigious number of old palaces, ruined caravanserais and other buildings, now reduced to an immense mass of ruins and rubble . One is reminded of the concluding chapter of Gibbon s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; the ruins of the Mughal capital also provide ample scope for moralizing on the vicissi­tudes of Fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, burying empires and cities in a common grave . About the Author G.S. Cheema is a former civil servant and writes mainly on historical subjects. His first book, The Forgotten Mughals, came out in 2002. This was followed by Our History, Their History (2012), and The Ascent of John Company (2017).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 552 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.57 inches. In Stock.

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