| Titre : | A very ingenious man : Claude Martin in early colonial India |
| Auteurs : | Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-19-565099-0 |
| Format : | 241 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Architect, soldier, surveyor, inventor, planter, botanist, financial advisor, political commentator and philanthropists, Claude Martin was one of the most fascinating adventurers associated with the East India Company in eighteenth-century India.
Martin designed and built some of the finest houses and buildings in Lucknow; he helped make some of the earliest maps of north-east India; he experimented with hot-air balloons and bladder surgery; he advised the British and the nawabs of Awadh on financial and political matters; he earned notoriety for his sexual liaisons; he patronized the arts and his bequests as philanthropist are still alive in the form of several schools named after him, in Lucknow, Calcutta and Lyon. This reissue, with a new preface, of the first full, thoroughly researched account of the life of this extraordinary individual will captivate general readers and interest historians of the early days of Empire. |
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| Localisation | Code-barres | Cote | Support | Section | Disponibilité |
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| AF Delhi | DE300499 | I 954 LLE | Livre | Inde | Libre accès Disponible |
