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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS A Memoir Of Central India : Including Malwa And Adjoining Provinces by John Malcolm
Sir John Malcolm 1769-1833 was a soldier and diplomat in British India and Persia. He returned to India on the eve of the British conquest of Malwa, a region of central India previously little known to Europeans, in 1818. Malcolm studied the regions geology, its agriculture and the history of its ruling families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His reports were first published in Calcutta in 1821, and were revised and expanded for publication in two volumes in London in 1823. Based on interviews with native inhabitants and oral testimonies, Malcolms work was the leading authority on Malwa until the 1930s. Despite more recent scholarship on the region, Malcolms work remains valuable for its first-hand account of nineteenth-century Malwas politics, culture and society. Volume 1 contains overviews of Malwas geology, agriculture and the government of the leading families.show more