Historical Sketches of the South of India
In an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor, from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of that State, to the Extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799

A three-volume history of Mysore from early times to its fall to the British in 1799, first published 1810–17.

Mark Wilks (Author)

9781108056120, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2013

578 pages
29.7 x 21 x 3 cm, 1.37 kg

Classically educated, Mark Wilks (c.1760–1831) joined the Madras army of the East India Company and would go on to serve as political resident at the court of Mysore from 1803 to 1808. He also later served as governor of Saint Helena from 1813 to 1816, during which time he witnessed the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte. Elected to the Manx parliament in 1816, Wilks became its speaker in 1826 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in the same year. Drawing on state records and his own experiences, he first published this acclaimed three-volume history of the kingdom of Mysore between 1810 and 1817. Volume 3 narrates the history of the third (1789–92) and fourth (1798–9) Anglo-Mysore wars, the capture of Seringapatam and the death of Tipu Sultan (1750–99).

32. The sultaun destroys Mysoor
33. Tippoo's designs for indirectly conquering Tavancour
34. Mission and subsequent embassy to Constantinople and eventually to Paris
35. Lord Cornwallis's early orders for preparation disobeyed
36. English centre army under Colonel Maxwell
37. Lord Cornwallis marches to Arcot
38. March from Bangalore northwards
39. Recurrence to the prior operation of the other armies
40. Lord Cornwallis moves from Bangalore
41. Lord Cornwallis's advance
42. Tippoo makes arrangements for liquidating the payments
43. External affairs since 1792
44. Government of India
45. Lord Mornington's luminous and instructive discussion of his political relations to the sultaun
46. View of the strength, advance and position of the invading armies
47. Attack of the enemy's posts on the 5th March fails
48. Selection of the hour of assault
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]