"A classic volume, this Dictionary of British-Indian Dates provides a fascinating picture of colonial rule in India upto 1860. The volume has entries, sections and sub-sections on all important British and Indian personalities of that age, the princes, the colonial administrators, warlords, scholars, traders and fortune hunters. Along with it, all legal and political acts are discussed, as are the necessary battles and treaties. All the towns and regions of South Asia, large and small, mofussil and urban are also taken note of in exemplary detail. The volume is indispensable for scholars of South Asian Colonial History."