The History of India from the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time

by Alfred Comyn Lyall and Romesh Chunder Dutt

Book Overview

Alfred Lyall's history of India from the late 17th century into the 19th century, when India was still a colonial possession controlled by the British. Of course, Lyall was writing from a British perspective, so he wrote favorably about the history of the colonial effort. As he puts it in the preface, "The principal object of this book has been to sketch in outline the Rise of the British Dominion in India, and to relate the circumstances that led...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500898279
• ISBN13: 9781500898274
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"