Author: East India CompanyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Papers Relative to Certain Pecuniary Transactions of Messrs. William Palmer and Co. with the Government of His Highness, the Nizam
Author: East India CompanyFrancis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings
Author: Paul David NelsonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"The most important role that Hastings played was as a soldier in the British army. He was a young officer during the American war, fighting at Bunker Hill in 1775 as a lieutenant in the grenadier company of the 5th Regiment. Distinguishing himself, he was promoted captain and appointed aide-de-camp to General Henry Clinton. He went on to lead the Volunteers of Ireland, serve as adjutant general under Clinton, and to command an independent army in South Carolina in 1780-81. As governor-general of India from 1813 to 1823, he successfully led campaigns against the Nepalese, Pindaris, and Marathas. Nelson's biography of Hastings is based upon extensive research in the Hastings Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California; the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library; the Public Record Office; and a large array of other archives. It also utilizes many published primary and secondary sources."--BOOK JACKET.
White Mughals
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351184552
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered—not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Khair un-Nissa—'Most Excellent among Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister. He fell in love with Khair, and overcame many obstacles to marry her—not least of which was the fact that she was locked away in purdah and engaged to a local nobleman. Eventually, while remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam, and according to Indian sources even became a double-agent working for the Hyderabadis against the East India Company. Possessing all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, White Mughals is a remarkable tale of harem politics, secret assignations, court intrigue, religious disputes and espionage.
The Life and Correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe, Late Governor-General of India, Governor of Jamaica, and Governor-General of Canada; from Unpublished Letters and Journals Preserved by Himself, His Family, and His Friends
Author: Charles Theophilus Metcalfe Baron MetcalfePublisher:
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Life and Correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe
Author: Charles Theophilus Metcalfe Baron MetcalfePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Life and Correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe, Late Governor-general of India from Unpublished Letters and Journals Preserved by Himself, His Family and His Friends
Author: John Will KayePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
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The life and correspondence of Charles, lord Metcalfe, from unpublished letters and journals
Author: sir John William KayePublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
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