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Sir Alfred C. Lyall : British Dominion in India

E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for travels in India]. Also I have failed to read another of Alice Parin's [sic] novels called Idolatry. The other I tried was good, but this is about missionaries & wicked Hindus and most tiresome.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Sir Alfred C. Lyall : Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social

'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Alfred C. Lyall : ?Asiatic studies: religious and social : being a selection from essays published under that title in 1882 and 1899

'I read Sir A. Lyall's "Essays", thanks to you! and reread them for they are so so good that I can't tear myself away from them. I want you to read one or two on religion and see what you think of them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

Alfred C. Lyall : ?The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in India

'It rained all the afternoon. I finished "L'Etape" and began Sir A Lyall's "English in India" and was rather bored and cold.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

Alfred C. Lyall : The life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava.

'I stayed with Sir Alfred Lyall for a couple of days on my way north [to Middleborough]. He gave me the proofs of his life of Lord Dufferin to read which was rather interesting. There are some admirable chapters on the missions to P'berg (Saint Petersburg] and C'ple [Constantinople], and the work Lord D. did in Egypt. The book is very nearly finished. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Manuscript: Sheet, proofs

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