Lord Hastings was nearly fifty-nine when he became Governor General of India. He was shrewd, patient, independent, holding his opinions modestly and under continual revision, a man experienced and humane. Here in this book we have chosen thirteen chapters highlighting his administrative measures. Derived from authoritative sources, this will serve as a dependable work of reference for students and teachers of history, politics and sociology.

CONTENTS
Condition of Central India; Revision of our Political Alliances; Poona and Nagpur; Moira Applies His Policy; War and After; The Nepal War; Rajput States; Subsidiary States; Financial Problems; The Pindari and Maratha Wars; The new Ideology; The Peshwa and Pindari War (1816-1818); Peasantry and the Middle Class etc.

No doubt, Indian society was ravaged by many evil customs and practices like Sati, child marriage etc. Some British administrators took effective measures in the direction of social reforms. This book portrays the era of reforms under Lord William Bentinck and Metcalfe. Students, researchers and teachers of history, polity and sociology will find this book informative and of utmost use.

Raja Rammohun Roy as a man had a unique personality combining together his kindness and nobility, catholicity, decency and decorum, sense of prestige, sympathy for the distressed, conviction, simplicity and fearlessness. Amidst plenty of literature on the theme, this book gives an authoritative account of Rammohun Roy in historical perspective.

CONTENTS
Sati: Efforts for its Addition; Indigo Trade and Land-ownership; Champion of Free Press; On Bengali Prose; As Ambassador of Emperor of Delhi; Voyage to Europe; Views on Revenue System; Assessment on Judicial System; Select Committees and the Reform Bill; Rammohun as a man; Scholar, Humanist and Educationist; political and Economic Thought of Rammohun Roy; A Social and Religious Ideology; Views of Indian Tradition, etc.

"Governing is an art which may no doubt be brilliantly practised without special training by some men of exceptional genius," and Ranjit Singh indeed was a monarch who could be counted as one of such men. This book contains nine judiciously selected articles which focus on Maharaja Ranjit Singh's administration and contemporary British Policy.

CONTENTS
Danger from Without; Foreign Aggression and National Resistance; Emergence of Army; British Hegemony; The Sword; Administrative Machinery; on the Borderline; Death of A Lion; The Annexation: End of an Era, etc.