Tod, Lieutentenant-Colonel Tod

Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'Han, Or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India. (Volumes I and II). [Rajasthan]

Madras: Higginbotham and Co, 1873. Two volumes, half cloth backed binding with marbled sides, paper spine labels with handwritten titles, four folding plates, the fourth with some repairs, index both vols pp xxix, 724; xxxi, 719 plus 48 pp publisher's catalogue. Vol. I: Table I folding plate (Genealogies) closed tears, Table II folding plate (further Genealogies). folding plate Royal Races, large folding plate facsimile handwriting numerous closed tears and creases. Vol II: pp v/vi detached, pencilled notes fep, one folding plate. Previous owner's signature both volumes (W.A. Quayle), and stamp to halfitle page of the Jubbulpore (Jabalpur) Station Library, marks title page. Boards scuffed Publisher's 48 page small catalogue bound in at end. Please note that this edition is not illustrated, and the map was not bound in: a publisher's slip tipped-in states "the Map intended to accompany this work is not yet ready. Rather than delay the issue of the book, they distribute copies to Subscribers at once". Complete otherwise. A fair condition set of an early printing of a scarce title.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (1782 - 1835) was an officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar. In 1818 he was appointed Political Agent for various states of western Rajputana, in the northwest of India, and he made a close study of the Rajput states. "The two volumes of James Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajast;han, first published in 1829-1832, remain to this day the first port of call for anyone interested in the history and culture of Rajasthan and the early colonial encounter in India. Written by the first East India Company official to the region, the text was also seminal for the early figures in India's independence movement who reworked Tod's imagined ancient Rajput national identities into a call for India's national liberation from British colonial rule." From the library of Lieutenant-Colonel (Surgeon-Major) W.A. Quayle of Madras. Item #103371

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