Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History series

Trevelyan's fascinating and often controversial 'letters' combine recognition of cultural relativity, the dangers of racial prejudice, and an affirmation of the Liberal imperialist's duty to govern for the 'benefit of the inhabitants of India', spreading justice, education and Christianity in the years following the conflict of 1857-1859.

An account of the development of one of India's most important cities, this work, written by Indian civil servant Stephen Meredyth Edwardes (1873-1927) and published in 1902, sketches the port's development from its earliest days to the enormous changes that occurred during the period of British rule.

William Harrison Moreland (1868-1938) spent twenty-five years as a civil servant in India, with a special interest in agricultural issues. This work, published in 1929, gives a history of land use and the lives of the peasantry from the thirteenth century onwards.

This 1783 account of the First Anglo-Maratha war of 1775-1782 is an important source of information on India before the Raj. The East India Company was expanding its influence, military and economic, over the Indian states, and became involved in a succession dispute over the Maratha Empire.

James Kerr translated this history of the rise to dominance of the Marathas over the Mughal empire in India in 1782. Written at the time of the first Anglo-Maratha war and the increasing wealth and power of the East India Company, it provided a useful history for English readers.