Alfred Lyall's history of India from the late 17th century into the 19th century, when India was still a colonial possession controlled by the British. Of course, Lyall was writing from a British perspective, so he wrote favorably about the history of the colonial effort. As he puts it in the preface, "The principal object of this book has been to sketch in outline the Rise of the British Dominion in India, and to relate the circumstances that led to the gradual extension of our territorial possessions up to 1858, when the Crown superseded the East India Company in the direct government of...
Alfred Lyall's history of India from the late 17th century into the 19th century, when India was still a colonial possession controlled by the British...
