Download or read book The Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie K. T, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by William Lee-Warner and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie K. T, Vol. 1 of 2 While the Marquis of Dalhousie administered the affairs of India he held captive the imagination of his own countrymen and of the various races of that empire. The lapse of half a century since he quitted her shores has served to place his brilliant achievements in still clearer light on the skyline of our nation's history. Yet, owing to several causes, the story of his strenuous and eventful life has hitherto been told under peculiar difficulties. The journals of his time were filled with incorrect reports, which he cared not to contradict, and with the distorted accounts of those whom he had offended by his reforms or his official rebukes. For he lived in the heated atmosphere of controversy, and the friends of abuses which he had the courage to sweep away, or the adherents of the Commanders-in-Chief or the Residents with whom he had differences of opinion, rushed into print with eager criticism. Against such attacks his personal dignity of character forbade any attempt to justify himself in the public press. Accordingly, historians and biographers have at times been misled by accounts of events taken from the Indian newspapers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.