Tara: A Mahratta Tale

Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor, Tara: A Mahratta Tale, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1889, sixth edition

viii + 543 pages including 1 black and white frontispiece + 80 advertisement pages at the end; original decorative red cloth binding with gilt text at the front board and spine
7.5 x 5.25 x 1.5 in (19 x 13.5 x 3.5 cm)

Philip Meadows Taylor is also the author of Seeta and Confessions of a thug. "This is a very remarkable book. It is a determined attempt to bring the interior Hindoo and Mussulman life of a great Mahratta province during the most exciting times home to the hearts and understandings of Englishmen, to interest them in people with whom they have nothing except human nature in common." - The Spectator.

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