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TITLE: A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan
SUB TITLE: From the year MDCCXLV, To which is prefixed a dissertationon the establishments made by Mahomedan conquerors in Indostan
AUTHOR: Robert Orme, ESQ.
PUBLISHER: F. Wingrave
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1803
NO.OF PAGES:
SIZE: 28.6 x 22.2 cm (each)
VOLUME I: xcvi + 436 pages including 10 folding maps
VOLUME II: 365 including 10 folding maps and 2 panaromic views
VOLUME III: 374 including 12 folding maps and 1 view
BINDING: Fill tree-calf leather with decorative gilt borders on covers, spines with gilt decorations, red and black morocco labels with gilt titles (each)
Important historical view of the battles and small wars that led to the British conquest of the Indostan (India) sub-continent. First published in 1763 and again in a revised second edition in 1775. A massive and complete history of India. Orme was critically acclaimed at the time asone of the great historians. - Abbey Travel 272, 385 and 388.
Fourth edition of Orme's chronicle of the Carnatic Wars between the British and the French in India (1745-63), which ultimately resulted in the British East India Company becomingthe dominant foreign power in India, paving the way for the establishment of the British Raj.
A contemporary view praised Orme's work, saying it "occupies so vast a field that every future of modern India must unavoidably trench in a greater or less degree upon his premises" (Lowndes, 1731-32). It "is a contemporary memoir, for Orme was in India in the [East India Company's] service during practically the whole time of which he wrote. It is a record of noble deeds written with picturesquedetails, and in dignified and natural language appropriate to its subject. Its accuracy in all important matters is unquestionable" (Cambridge History of English and American Literature, XII ?? 15). "Macaulay has praised Orme's history as one of themost authentic and finely written in our language" (DNB).
First published 1775-78. The spine of Volume II is misnumbered as III, and vice versa.
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