The Lion and the Tiger
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 25, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780192803580
First sentence: The British experience with India began in earnest over 400 years ago, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, when a few merchants humbly applied for trading concessions from the apparently all-powerful Mughal emperor.