Author: HENDLEY, THOMAS HOLBEIN
Title: The Rulers of India and the Chiefs of Rajputana, 1550-1897.
Description: London : W. Griggs, 1897.. 42 p., col. frontisp., 25 plates, 18 in colour, 28 x 38 cm.. HARDCOVER: (Orig. gilt-decor. red heavy cloth, edges and corners bit rubbed, slighty loosening, vague residu of removed bookplate on end paper, else FINE) ¶ As an Administrative Medical Officer Hendley visited nearly all the living Chiefs. Apart from the native rulers, Hendley describes the British colonial authorities such as the Viceroy of the time, the previous Governors-General of India, etc. Fine monochrome and chromolithographed plates of the British and nearly all Indian rulers since the end of the sixteenth century.

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