This volume of papers by an eminent historian of the last generation provides dependable source-based information on Nawab Mirqasim’s desperate state of mind, Maharaja Nandakumar caught between two worlds, glimpses of the late Mughal period, the age and caste of women who became satis, the salt workers of the eighteenth century, the earliest court records in Bengal and the motivation for western education. The author’s methodical presentation of facts and ...
