Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company

Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company

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Publisher's Synopsis

'Heart Like a Fakir' is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research intoprimary source documents, the book uses the life of General Sir James Abbott as a narrative thread to explore the troubled period between William Dalrymple's White Moghuls and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Book information

ISBN: 9781538169575
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 954.035092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 382
Weight: 592g
Height: 152mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 28mm