Lord Hastings`s journal of his travels from Calcutta to the Punjab in 1814-1815 records the events & views of this journey accompanied by 200 large watercolour illustrations by Sita Ram. This book
Includes:: an edited version of the journal charting his passage through the India of the early nineteenth century. Though Sita Ram`s picturesque paintings were a sharp departure from the accurate ` Company` views of Indian monuments, they nonetheless revealed his eye for architectural detail. Taking the readers along as part of Lord Hastings`s party, J. P. Losty brings alive the seventeen
- month long expedition in a flotilla of 220 boats from Barrackpore past Patna, Benares, Allahabad & Cawnpore, & then overland to Lucknow, Delhi & the Punjab, through Sita Ram`s never-before-published paintings of Colonial India.