Commenting on the general Histories of India written before 1865. Edward Thompson observed that :they had this advantage, that they had only a public of their own people of consider, and did not have to keep glancing over their shoulder, to see if frankess and truthfulness would be overhead and have an adverse political effectâ€. The Present work, written originally in 1851, truly exemplifies the soundness of this observation. With a candidness and objectivity ...
