Indian States: A Biographical, Historical and Administrative Survey

About The Book - The book being a Biographical, Historical and Administrative Survey, there are articles written by eminent scholars and historians, on all possible facets – be it geography, history, river systems, education, trade, forest cover, note-worthy individuals, commercial and industrial houses, etc, also, the entire series is profusely illustrated with 100 year old photographs, showing of all aspects of the area each book covers. This present book covers 90 native Indian states and they are listed in the book according to the gun salute that they commanded. The geographical area of this book is vast, as it covers the principalities of Panjab, in the north and notices Janjira in the west, Gwalior in the central and Hyderabad in the south of India. Among the complete list of the states, the reader would find essays on : Baroda, Indore, Bharatpur, Jaipur, Bundi, Datia, Idha, Khairpur, Rampur, Porbandar, Patialla, Faridkot, Mandi, Sirmoor, Loharu, Sangli, Akalkot, Polo, Sakti, etc. About the Author:- Somerset Playne (1875 –1944) was a British explorer and a manager for Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company who travelled the British Empire and wrote books about it. Playne was born in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire. He studied at Clifton College and St Edward's School, Oxford. He travelled to the United States spending time on ranches and then travelled to South Africa shortly after the Matabele Rebellion. In 1899 he joined an expedition into German East Africa. He worked for Lloyd's Press compiling information on Africa and later, in order to publish his travelogues, Playne started a publishing house "The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Company" in 1908. His travels included to British East Africa and wrote a book about it. Later he wrote books about Ceylon, the Federated Malay States, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and visited Java, Labuan, Borneo, and Formosa, Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and New Zealand between 1908 and 1913