1887 Reminiscences of Behar

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition of this scarce work.

Lacking the title page.

Minden Wilson provides a first hand account of life in colonial India in the mid nineteenth century, and includes accounts of big game shooting in Nepal, and a brief discussion of the India mutiny.

With the bookplate of B.A.C.S.A., the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, to the front pastedown.

With a loosely inserted letter addressed to T. C. Wilkinson, Honorary Secretary of B.A.C.S.A., loosely inserted. Dated May 1981, the letter is from English colonial administrator Raymond Veveysan Vernède, and informs Wilkinson that this volume includes some information on estates and cemeteries.