First English edition, first printing. 364pp. Quarter bound in brown cloth over dark brown paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Brown endpapers. Pages just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket chipped along edges. 8vo. A perceptive study of the remarkable and complex phenomenon of dynastic rule and a fascinating account of the Indian subcontinent's social and political history during the second half to the twentieth century.
