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Scottish-born Alexander Mackay (1808 1852) spent most of his career as a journalist in Canada and the United States, though he had been called to the bar in 1847. In 1851 he was commissioned by the chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn, and Glasgow to go to India and report on the cultivation of cotton there, especially around Gujarat. He stayed for a year and was on his way back to Britain his return forced by ill health when he died at sea in 1852. His Western India, however, was published the following year after it was revised by James Robertson. The book highlights the...