Ananda Ranga Pillai The Pepys Of French India

Language: English

Published by Gyan Publishing House, 2020

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Language: English. About the Book:-Ananda Ranga Pillai was a courtier of F. Dupleix, and maintained a diary of the happenings and events of the French in India for about 25 Years from 1736 to 1760. The complete work (also available under AES imprint) is in 12 volumes and is an indispensable source for the history of Southern India. This work is a narrative, complied from the 12 volume work. It has 20 chapters and 3 appendices that describe the principal persons, events, wars, and engagements of the French in Southern India. Among the chapters, we find noticed La Bourdonnais, capture of Madras, operation round Cuddalore and Pondicherry, Chanda Sahab, Dupleix, Leyrit, Godeheu, Bussy, and the fall of Pondicherry. There is a map of Pondicherry and its surrounding county at the end of the book. About the Author :-Ananda Ranga Pillai was a dubash in the service of the French East India Company. He is mainly famous for his set of private diaries from the years 1736 to 1761 which portray life in 18th century India. He is also remembered for developing the Tiruvengadam courtage strategy, a new method of courtage in India that is popularly described in several Indian economic books. As described in his journals, it consists in developing a strategy of making new fraud coins in a parallel economy. Pillai's diaries were translated in the early 20th century and bring to light life in the mid-18th century and the Anglo-French Carnatic wars. His mansion in Pondicherry has been recognized as a heritage monument. C. S. Srinivasachari, a prominent Indian historian, described Ananda Ranga Pillai as the Samuel Pepys of French India. The Title 'Ananda Ranga Pillai The Pepys Of French India written/authored/edited by Ananda Ranga Pillai, C. S. Srinivasachari', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121231152 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 548 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol: 548.…

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Title
Ananda Ranga Pillai The Pepys Of French India
Author
Ananda Ranga Pillai, C. S. Srinivasachari
Publisher
Gyan Publishing House
Publication year
2020
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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9788121231152

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