First edition, first printing. 164pp. Pink cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth is worn and faded, rubbed at edges and a little bruised at ends of a sunned spine. An ex university library copy with call number label on spine, usual markings on front endpapers, and small annotated stamp on the copyright page, black label on rear paste down. A hint of toning to pages else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Philip Spratt, a journalist and politician who lived and worked in India for much of his life, gives a political analysis of the years when the DMK was in power in India
