India: The Land And The People

Author: Sir James Caird

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Price : 220.00 NZD
ISBN : 2471720828607
Publisher : Cassell and Company Limited
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pp. xii, 216. Frontis: folding map of India. Half calfand boards, gilt spine titles. Tidy ex-lib gilt stamp on front boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Minor wear at extremities.

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The author toured India as a member of the Famine Commission, after the great famine in India in 1876-7. "In traversing the country with the Members of the Commission, men eminent in their respective provinces, and two of them native gentlemen holding high office under native Princes, an unusually favourable opportunity for observation of the Land the the People was afforded" - from the Preface. Folding map has the "Route of Famine Commission" printed in red.

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