A Very Ingenious Man: Claude Martin in Early Colonial India
Book Specification
Item Code: | IDG037 |
Author: | Rosie Llewellyn-Jones |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, New Delhi |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 1992 |
ISBN: | 0195650999 |
Pages: | 241 |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 8.5" X 5.4" |
Weight | 330 gm |
Book Description
Rosie Liewellyn-Jones is Archives and Records Officer at South Bank University, London. She is the author of A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow (OUP, 1985) and Engaging Scoundrel: True Tales of Old Lucknow (forthcoming form (OUP).
'Llewellyn-Jones tells a good story as close to a page-turner as one is likely to find in books on Indian history. It is intelligent and sensible, offering marvelous texture and detail '----Association for Asian Studies Journal
'Dr Llewellyn-Jones is an historian, with impeccable scholastic credentials, and has written a meticulously researched and documented historical work '---Chowkidar,UK
About the Book:
Architect, soldier, surveyor, inventor, planter, botanist, financial advisor, political commentator and philanthropist, Claude Martin was one of the most fascinating adventurers associated with the East India Company in eighteenth-century India.(p) Martin designed and built some of the finest houses and buildings in Lucknow; he helped make some of the earliest maps of north-east India; he experimented with hot-air balloons and bladder surgery; he advised the British and the nawabs of Awadh on financial and political matters; he earned notoriety for his sexual liaison; he patronized the arts and his bequests as philanthropist are still alive in the form of several schools named after him, in Lucknow, Calcutta and Lyon.
This reissue, with a new preface, of the first full, thoroughly researched account of the life of this extraordinary individual will captivate general readers and interest historian of the early days of Empire.
Illustrations | xvii | |
Introduction | xix | |
1. | The Battle for Southern India | 1 |
2. | Conquest in the North | 27 |
3. | The Making of a Nabob | 58 |
4. | Spheres of Influence | 87 |
5. | The Polymath | 119 |
6. | War and Commerce | 155 |
7. | The Old Soldier | 182 |
Epilogue | 215 | |
Appendix I: Claude Martin--Chronology | 221 | |
AppendixII: Claude Martin--Letters | 224 | |
Bibliography | 230 | |
Index | 235 |