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Book Condition: Used Very Good Condition
Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket
Seller: Bookbarrow

United Kingdom
About Item: Oxford, London, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. To front: sepia frontis. portrait; titles; preface; contents & list of illustrations. Lieutenant-General Sir Pratap Singh, GCB, GCSI, GCVO (21 October 1845 â€“ 4 September 1922), was a decorated British Indian Army officer, Maharaja of the princely state of Idar (Gujarat), administrator and Regent of Jodhpur and heir to Ahmednagar later renamed as Himmatnagar from 1902 to 1911. Commissioned in the Jodhpur Risala in 1878, Singh served during the Second Afghan War and was mentioned in dispatches. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1887, served under General Ellis in 1897 and served in the Tirah Campaign in 1898 under General William Lockhart, during which he was wounded. Promoted to an Honorary Colonel the same year, he commanded the Jodhpur contingent during the Boxer Rebellion and was promoted to an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB). In late 1901 he… Read More
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