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Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi |
| Author: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 241 | |
| Cover: Paperback | |
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8.5" X 5.4" |
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Weight 330 gm |
| Edition: 1992 | |
| ISBN: 0195650999 | |
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IDG037 |
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Rosie Liewellyn-Jones is Archives and Records Officer at South Bank University, London. She is the author of A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow (OUP, 1985) and Engaging Scoundrel: True Tales of Old Lucknow (forthcoming form (OUP).
'Llewellyn-Jones tells a good story as close to a page-turner as one is likely to find in books on Indian history. It is intelligent and sensible, offering marvelous texture and detail ' Association for Asian Studies Journal
'Dr Llewellyn-Jones is an historian, with impeccable scholastic credentials, and has written a meticulously researched and documented historical work ' Chowkidar,UK
About the Book:
Architect, soldier, surveyor, inventor, planter, botanist, financial advisor, political commentator and philanthropist, Claude Martin was one of the most fascinating adventurers associated with the East India Company in eighteenth-century India.(p) Martin designed and built some of the finest houses and buildings in Lucknow; he helped make some of the earliest maps of north-east India; he experimented with hot-air balloons and bladder surgery; he advised the British and the nawabs of Awadh on financial and political matters; he earned notoriety for his sexual liaison; he patronized the arts and his bequests as philanthropist are still alive in the form of several schools named after him, in Lucknow, Calcutta and Lyon.
This reissue, with a new preface, of the first full, thoroughly researched account of the life of this extraordinary individual will captivate general readers and interest historian of the early days of Empire.
| Illustrations | xvii | |
| Introduction | xix | |
| 1. | The Battle for Southern India | 1 |
| 2. | Conquest in the North | 27 |
| 3. | The Making of a Nabob | 58 |
| 4. | Spheres of Influence | 87 |
| 5. | The Polymath | 119 |
| 6. | War and Commerce | 155 |
| 7. | The Old Soldier | 182 |
| Epilogue | 215 | |
| Appendix I: Claude Martin--Chronology | 221 | |
| AppendixII: Claude Martin--Letters | 224 | |
| Bibliography | 230 | |
| Index | 235 |
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