Architect, soldier, surveyor, inventor, planter, botanist, financial advisor, political commentator and philanthropists, Claude Martin was one of the most fascinating adventurers associated with the East India Company in eighteenth-century India. This reissue, with a new preface, of the first full, thoroughly researched account of the life of this extraordinary individual will captivate general readers and interest historians of the early days of Empire.
- ISBN10 0195650999
- ISBN13 9780195650990
- Publish Date December 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Paperback
- Pages 286
- Language English