Superlccs 2003 Schedule Kdz Microfiche Law of America, Latin American and the West Indies Book

A nice and balanced book, it starts with an account of life in Akbar's Mughal empire and describes events up to independence. In between it discusses different empires within India and British laws and acts in a mostly chronological order. The book, because it is thin, discusses issues in a compact manner, so that some interesting incidents lack the flesh that they deserve. In any case, this book reminded me to read about the Marathas and Shivaji's romantic escape from Aurangzeb's territory.

For the first time, I read about the efforts made by different Englishmen that were actually good for India. At times I felt the book rushed through some parts (like the Jallianwala Bagh incident), and focused on others that might not have been so important for an Indian. However I firmly believe that this bias was not intentional, it was just a different perspective.

As usual I ended up reading Volume 2 of this series first. The Volume 1 covers incidents before this and is written by Romila Thapar.