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Balfour, Lady Betty:
The History of Lord Lytton's Indian Administration, 1876 to 1880: compiled from Letters and Official Papers.
Imprint: London: Longmans, Green, and Co. [...], 1899
Binding:
Hardback
8vo. pp. x, 552, 32 (adverts) + photogravure portrait frontispiece and folding colour-printed map lithographed by W. & A.K. Johnston at the rear. Publisher’s cloth, rubbed. Stamps and paper label (on cover) of the University Women’s Club. Ownership inscription of Shirley Tremearne, dated 1902 (pencilled note: ‘of Bangalore, male’).
Robert Bulwer-Lytton had a brief but controversial term as Disraeli’s Viceroy, 1876-1880, which encompassed the Delhi Durbar (at which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India), an assassination attempt, the great famine of 1876-78 in which up to 10 million perished and the second Afghan War of 1878-80. Edited by Lytton’s daughter, Lady Balfour, whose stated goal was to give “to the public, for the first time, the true inner history of an administration which has been greatly criticised, yet little understood”.
Stock number:6502.
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