Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (PhD) graduated from SOAS in Urdu and is now an acclaimed historian of the colonial history of India from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. She has published extensively on this period and her particular interest is in the political interaction between the British and their Indian subjects. She is also Secretary to the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia and editor of its journal Chowkidar.

'This compelling book ... abounds in vivid details, and draws on an exceptional variety of sources in both English and Urdu. ... Llewellyn-Jones is perhaps the world authority on 19th-century Lucknow.'

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (PhD) graduated from SOAS in Urdu and is now an acclaimed historian of the colonial history of India from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. She has published extensively on this period and her particular interest is in the political interaction between the British and their Indian subjects. She is also Secretary to the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia and editor of its journal Chowkidar.

'This compelling book ... abounds in vivid details, and draws on an exceptional variety of sources in both English and Urdu. ... Llewellyn-Jones is perhaps the world authority on 19th-century Lucknow.'