Summary of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign During 1817, 1818, and 1819 ....

London: E WIlliams, 1820. First Edition. Original publisher's paste paper blue boards.. Very good; rebacked with paper at an early date; hinges reinforced; map is loose in the volume.. 8vo., [4], [1] - 363, [1] pp + folding map, and a folding plan. A presentation from the author on the front free endpaper to a Mr. Bush, London, May 1822.

The anonymous author of this account of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign wrote a trenchant and unsparing criticism of his superior officers and their conduct of the campaigns. He was an Irish officer in the Madras Army named Marshal Clarke. Born in 1789, Clarke died at age 44 in Peronne, northern France, on his way home from India. His book is, "accompanied by beautifully engraved maps" gives a clear and lengthy account of the operations in 1817, 1818, and 1819 of the armies of the East India Company " particularly the Army of the Deckan" under the orders of the Marquis of Hastings and the direct command of Lt.-Gen. Sir T. Hislop. The campaigns were a result of an attempt to suppress the depredations of the Pindaris and Maratha soldiers in central and southern India. Events were to foreshadow the First Afghan War for the British. See Dupuy & Dupuy, pp. 786 - 788.