The Road of Destiny: Darjeeling Letters 1839

By Fred Pinn

This collection of letters recounts the slow and laborious construction of the magnificent Himalayan resort, Darjeeling. Gleaned from the confidential consultations of the Supreme Council of the British in Calcutta and the public correspondences sent to newspapers of the period, these letters provide a valuable portrait of the social, economic, and ethnographic factors influencing 19th-century Indian urban devlopment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195619307
• ISBN13: 9780195619300
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.1" x 5.8"