Hardcover. 1st U.S. edition hardcover with dustjacket 1983 Harper and Row. Has 3 PUNCTURES through jacket to cover. Text intact, clean, and unmarked; pages bright; binding tight. Great reading / research copy. 288 pages; Index; Sources; black-and-white and color photos; endpaper maps. Language: English. 'Surprisingly, this superbly narrated and handsomely illustrated book is the first popular history of the colorful three centuries of British rule in India.'--from jacket flap. Keywords: British Empire, imperialism, East India Company, Clive, Hastings, Cornwallis, Wellesley, Lord Mountbatten, Black Hole of Calcutta, Mutiny of 1857, Gandhi.