A Very Ingenious Man Claude Martin in Early Colonial India

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

Paperback (01 Dec 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. 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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Book information

ISBN:	9780195650990
Publisher:	OUP India
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	01 Dec 1999
Language:	English
Number of pages:	286
Weight:	290g
Height:	143mm
Width:	218mm
Spine width:	22mm