1915 Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Revised annotated edition. With a portrait frontispiece and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A detailed collection of anecdotes and accounts of the author's time in India, with chapters on annual fairs, the Hindu religion, the legend of the Nerbudda River, marriages, peasantry and land settlement, and much more. Written by Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman, a British soldier and administrator in British India best known for his work from the 1830s in suppressing the organized criminal gangs known as Thuggee. With a short memoir to the front of the text. Revised by Vincent Arthur Smith, an Irish Indologist, historian, member of the Indian Civil Service, and curator who was one of the prominent figures in Indian historiography during the British Raj.