selections writings de mookerji hurrish chunder edited nares (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Later rebinding by amateur binder.; [8], iv, (A)-H, 360 pages + 1 plate (Memorial Obelisk of Hurrish Chunder Mookerji) + xxxiii page addenda. Later rebinding in half leather. Page dimensions: 215 x 133mm. Contents are divided into the following sections: The Mutiny; The Transfer to the Crown; The Army; Land Laws; Indigo; Industrial & Commercial; Administration of India; Indians & Europeans; Educational; Addenda; Appendix I; Appendix II. "Of all the galaxy of brilliant men who marked the first onset of English education and English ideas into our land, Hurrish Chunder Mookerji may be counted as the one who left an abiding impression on the public life of later days. There are very few men now alive who can remember Babub Hurrish Chunder Mookerji in the heyday of his power and fame and posterity has not been just to the memory of that great man, whose intellectual eminence no less than his great public services demanded more adequare recognition than we have been able to give him [. . .]" - from the Introduction by Nares C. Sen-Gupta.