India and the Persian Gulf Region, 1858-1907: A Study in British Imperial Policy
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #012541
Scarce first edition. Orig. tan cloth. 259 pp. Spine tilted and sunned. Discolouration and spotting, cockling to cloth at boards. Front board slightly bowed. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Acid migration from adhesive to endpapers. Light foxing to fore edge of first few pages. Cracking to inner hinges in a few spots, title page a little shaken. Some pencil underlining and marginalia. Dust jacket lacking. "Ravinder Kumar has traced the rise of Anglo-Indian supremacy in the Persian Gulf in the half century preceding the Anglo-Russian entente of 1907. It is a novel work, the first full-length study of the subject written by an Indian scholar and based largely on the unpublished records of the Foreign Department of British India, records that now form an important part of the national archives of sovereign India." (The American Historical Review, Volume 72, Issue 4, July 1967, p. 1351).
Price: $400.00