Lot No. 56: BAYLEY, C.S.

BAYLEY, C.S.

REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF CENTRAL INDIA, ILLUSTRATED

First Edition

Year: circa 1902

Size: 37.5 x 28 cm (14.7 x 11 inches)

Published By: C. B. Burrows, c/o William Watson & Co.
Oblong Folio. 205pp.

No. of Illustrations: 164 Photo Illustrations (Mainly Half Page and Larger)

Original full leather gilt, front board brightly gilt blocked with title within blind tooling, boards slightly rubbed on beveled edges, Printed on good quality art paper, internally an excellent clean copy. (some damages on spine and cover)

A wonderful work of reference, probably published about 1902/3, with portraits of most of the rulers and chiefs of the area, together with a few senior administrators. The work is divided into the following districts: Indore, Bhopal, Malwa, Bhopawar, Bundelkhand, Baghelkhand, Gwalior, Although photographic credits are not given the book serves as an invaluable photographic record of rulers, heirs, chief sirdars, etc at the period just before the great Curzon Durbar of 1903. Many of the photographs are probably from the studio of Raja Deen Dayal who was particularly active in Central India, much patronized early in his career by Maharaja Holkar of Indore.

A fascinating photographic record of the British Raj celebrating the wise rulers and loyal officials who stepped in and produced order out of chaos in colonial India.

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Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman