Memorials of Service in India (Classic Reprint): From the Correspondence of the Late Major Samuel Macpherson, C. B: From the Correspondence of the Late Major Samuel Macpherson, C. B (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Samuel Charters Macpherson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332022715 ISBN 13: 9781332022717

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Memorials of Service in India offers a firsthand look at British India through Major Samuel Macpherson's letters and memoirs, revealing the challenges of governance in hill tracts and tribal diplomacy.

The work traces his education, early service, and the demanding tasks of managing relations with hill tribes. It combines personal narrative with administrative detail, showing how political life in India blended negotiation, military precision, and cultural understanding.

• Personal letters and reminiscences from Jalnah to Madras reveal the early days of an officer’s career.


• Insight into the complex politics of frontier regions and the use of diplomacy with tribal communities.


• Accounts of strategic decisions and the daily realities of 19th-century imperial governance.


• A window into the ethos, friendships, and challenges faced by British officers in India.

Ideal for readers of colonial history, military diplomacy, and biographies of Indian Service officers.

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Product Description

Excerpt from Memorials of Service in India: From the Correspondence of the Late Major Samuel Macpherson, C. B

These Memorials tell of a barbarous race won over from dark and cruel rites; and of an important Indian State rendered in the hour of need a mainstay of the Empire, when its defection would have involved that of every Native Power. They Show how these Objects were attained through the benevolence, the sagacity, and the firmness of an Officer whose name is almost unknown to the British public, but whose earnest desire was that good men Should think well of him. They may also serve to convey to the reader some idea of the labours and anxieties of Indian Political life.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332022715
• ISBN 13: 9781332022717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 426