About the Author

Jos J.L. Gommans, Ph.D. (1993), University of Leiden, teaches Indian history at the Kern Institute of the University of Leiden.

Reviews

'...well-written, handsomely produced volume...Gommans makes a number of important contributions to eighteenth-century North Indian history...'
Stephen F. Dale, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1995.
'Gomman's work is of seminal importance, and will compel historians of 18th-century India and Central Asia to revise some long-held assumptions.'
G.R.G. Hambly, Choice, 1995.