Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
A vivid doorway to a bygone world: a travelogue that risked life and limb to map memory, myth, and the march of empire.Bengal Dacoits And Tigers unfolds through the keen eye of the Maharani of Cooch Behar, Sunity Devee, offering a historical travelogue steeped in the realities of the colonial era. This is more than reportage; it is a window into rural and urban Bengal, where frontier wildlife and legends of dacoits mingle with brisk, contemporary observations on place, power, and peril. The text moves between encounter and reflection, weaving tiger skirmishes with the social texture of early twentieth-century India, and presenting a culture as layered as its landscapes.The work stands as a beacon of literary and historical significance. It preserves voices and scenes that illuminate the era’s travel writing, journalism, and regional life-a touchstone for history enthusiasts and collectors of classic South Asian writing alike. It speaks to readers who crave not only a story, but a compass for understanding a region at the edge of empire, where anecdotes become cultural memory.Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint, it is a collector’s item and a cultural treasure: a seamless fusion of adventure, ethnography, and timeless curiosity, offering Bengal’s dacoits, wildlife, and landscapes with renewed reverence.
