Cassell's, Vol. 1: Illustrated History of India (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

James Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330645200 ISBN 13: 9781330645208

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Cassell's, Vol. 1: Illustrated History of India

Apart from the political progress of the East India Company, the moral and material advance ment of India (50 signally shown when Lord Dalhousie introduced cheap postage, railways, and the telegraph) shall all be traced, together with that commerce which every year assumes vaster proportions, and is capable of almost indefinite extension 5 for now the rich natural productions of Hindostan are being more fully developed, under the appliances of Western civilisation; and thus, while wool comes from Afghanistan, and acres of land are already under cotton cultivation, and acres under indigo, the silver blossoms and tender leaves of the tea-plant are beginning to cover the slopes of the Himalayas and the hill-districts of the north-western Provinces; rice is being grown in the south, and thousands of logs of teak are now furnished yearly by the forests of Tenasserim, of Martaban, and Malabar.

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James Grant is the founder of "Grant's Interest Rate Observer", a leading journal on financial markets, which he has published since 1983. He is the author of seven books covering both financial history and biography. Grant's journalism has been featured in "Financial Times", " The Wall Street Journal", and "Foreign "Affairs. He has appeared on "60 Minutes", " Jim Lehrer's News Hour", and "CBS Evening News."

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330645200
• ISBN 13: 9781330645208
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 590