Set of three books by Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor

a) Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor, Seeta, London: C Kegan Paul and Co., 1881, fourth edition

xii, 442 pages; original decorated red cloth in gilt
7.6 x 5.3 in (19.5 x 13.5 cm)

b) Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor, Tara: A Mahratta Tale , London: Henry S King and Co., 1874, new edition

viii, 534 pages, original brown cloth decorated in black spine
7.6 x 5.3 in (19.5 x 13.5 cm

c) Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug , London: C Kegan Paul and Co., Circa 1870s

xix, 452 pages; original blue cloth decorated in red and gilt
7.6 x 5.3 in (19.5 x 13.5 cm)

Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor an administrator in British India and a novelist, made notable contributions to public knowledge of South India. Though largely self-taught, he was a polymath, working alternately as a judge, engineer, artist, and man of letters.

While on furlough in England in 1840, he published the first of his Indian novels, Confessions of a Thug, in which he reproduced the scenes which he had heard about the Thuggee cult, described by the chief actors in them. Richard Garnett commented, "His Confessions of a Thug is a classic adventure novel, which inspired the young of several imperial generations and was much imitated by other colonial fiction writers for over a century."

This book was followed by a series of tales, Tippoo Sultaun (1840), Tara (1863), Ralph Darnell (1865), Seeta (1872), and A Noble Queen (1878), all illustrating periods of Indian history and society, and giving a prominent place to the native character, for which and the native institutions and traditions he had a great regard and respect. Seeta in particular was remarkable for its sympathetic and romantic portrayal of the marriage between a British civil servant and a Hindu widow just before the Indian Mutiny. (Source: Wikipedia)

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