Here is a neat little book, Written in impeccable English, not by a professional writer but by a civil servant, an adjunct of the old steel frame, responsible for the administration of so vast and varied a country as India. Written more than a century ago, it gives a glimpse of the white man’s frantic efforts to expand and consolidate his Indian empire in its early formative stage. The book deals with what he has termed as Sonthalia or the ...
