Tara: A Mahratta Tale: Historical Novel of India

by Philip Meadows Taylor

This novel shows the remarkable and romantic events, connected with the rise of the Mahratta power, which happened in the 17th century in India. The book depicts the fates of great warriors of the epoch and of common people, such as Tara was, daughter of a Brahman and a devotee of Kali, the goddess of death.

702 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 24, 2009

About the author

Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor CSI, an Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist, was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of fifteen he was sent out to India to become a clerk to a Bombay merchant. The merchant was in financial difficulties, though. In 1824, Taylor gladly accepted a commission in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, to which service he remained devotedly attached throughout his long career. He was speedily transferred from military duty to a civil appointment, and in this capacity he acquired a knowledge of the languages and the people of southern India which has seldom been equalled.
He studied the laws, geology, and the antiquities of the country, being one of the foremost early experts on megaliths. He was alternately judge, engineer, artist, and man of letters.

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