Description and condition:

Yellow boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 352 pp., index, glossary, colour and b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout, small indentation to front board. In good dustcover, yellowed spine and cut to front.

Contents:

Born to the sound of guns; intimations of royalty; the martial song of the bard; the making of the princes; the blood of great men; the enlightenment of princes; the sport of kings; royal progress; royal alliances; within the Zanana; Darbar; servants of the state; rajas and the Raj; piety and sin; mother and fathers of the people; ruler of the state; epilogue: broken promises.