History of the French in India: From the Founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the Capture of That Place in 1761 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108024020)

This work of 1868 is a revised and expanded version of a series of articles contributed by G. B. Malleson (1825-1898) to the Calcutta Review. The author served in India for thirty years from 1847, retiring finally with the honorary rank of major-general. Drawing on his wealth of first-hand experience of Anglo-Indian military history, he wrote prolifically and with an accessible, vigorous style. This work on the history of the French in India from 1674 to 1761 reassesses the career and contribution of Joseph Fran ois Dupleix and other major figures in this period of the Franco-Indian empire. He sees the decline in French power as the result of a few extremely able persons being let down by their mother-country's lack of support. In this he contrasts the French with the English in terms of their Indian colonial history.

Author: George Bruce Malleson
ISBN-10: 1108024025
ISBN-13: 9781108024020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2010
Pages: 610
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.50d