History of India, in Nine Volumes

First published in 1906, this classic nine-volume history of the nation of India places it among the storied lands of antiquity, alongside Egypt, China, and Mesopotamia. Edited by American academic ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS JACKSON (18621937), professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University, it offers a highly readable narrative of the Indian people and culture through to the time of its publication, when the nation was still part of the British Empire.

Volume VIII, From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time, by British scholar SIR ALFRED COMYN LYALL (1835-1911), features entertaining and enlightening treatments of:

early competition for Indian commerce
influence and connections of politics in Europe and Asia
the French and English East India companies
the second French war
the conquest of Bengal
administrative organization
Warren Hastings, Lord Cornwallis, and Lord Wellesley
India under the Crown
and more.

This beautiful replica of the 1906 first edition includes all the original illustrations.