Strangers in the Land

Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian and has lived in India for 7 years. He is the author of The Last of the Crusaders, The Independence of Brazil and Admiral Satan (both I.B.Tauris).

List of maps – vi
List of illustrations – vii
Maps – viii
Preface – xv
1. ‘To Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul’ – 1
2. ‘A Field Left Open for Adventurers’ – 16
3. ‘That Man not Born for a Desk’ – 31
4. ‘The Mind that Grasps at Such Inordinate Wealth Must be Vicious’ – 46
5. ‘A Storm of Universal Fire’ – 59
6. ‘English Man, Very Good Man’ – 73
7. ‘We Must Go to the Orient’ – 91
8. ‘Our Empire Seems Destined to be Short-Lived’ – 108
9. ‘Why… Deprive Me of My Poor and Barren Country?’ – 125
10. ‘Europeans Cannot Retreat’ – 140
11. ‘The Great Chiefs and Landowners of India’ – 154
12. ‘Worth Three Hundred a Year, Dead or Alive’ – 167
13. ‘We Are Pledged to India’ – 187
14. ‘Marching up to an Impossible Solution’ – 201
15. ‘Crushed by English Poetry’ – 219
Notes – 229
Bibliography – 256
Glossary – 263
Index – 267