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Rh In addition to the more general histories of India cited ante, p. 199, the following are a few of the leading and easily available works bearing more specially on the half-century (1805 to 1856) dealt with in this chapter. Malcolm's Political History of India from 1784 to 1823 (London, ed. 1826); Life and Letters of Lord Minto in India; H. T. Prinsep's Political and Military Transactions in India, 1813 to 1823; Major Ross of Bladensburg's Marquess of Hastings, in the 'Rulers of India' Series; Malcolm's Memoir of Central India (ed. 1832'); Cotton's Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Making of South-Western India, in the 'Rulers of India' Series; Phayre's History of Burma (1883), and the British Burma Gazetteer (2 vols., Rangoon, 1879-80). Boulger's Lord William Bentinck, in the ’Rulers of India' Series, condenses the materials available for 1828 to 1835. Kaye's History of the War in Afghánistán is still the standard work on that sad period; Miss Eden's Journal in India in 1837 and 1838 portrays the social aspects of Lord Auckland's rule; Lord Colchester's Indian Administration of Lord Ellenborough unconsciously but definitely reveals from Lord Ellenborough's own letters the vainglorious meanness of that Governor-General. The volumes on Lord Hardinge, by his son, and on the Marquess of Dalhousie, in the 'Rulers of India' Series, with the lives of Sir Henry Lawrence, Sir Herbert Edwardes, and Lord Lawrence, indicate the materials for the succeeding period from 1844 to 1856.