Transcriber’s Notes

The old-fashioned English names of towns and cities in South Asia that are used in the text have been retained. Variations in the spelling of other words are unchanged unless noted in the following.

For a complete list of corrections, other changes, and notes, please see the end of this document.

Clickable links to page numbers in the Table of Contents appear as 32 rather than 32.

Similarly, links to footnotes in the text appear like this[3] rather than being underlined like this[3].