[KAB, SHRI LALLU LAL (1763 - 1825); LOW, J. R. A. S. (trans.)]. The Rajniti; Or Tales, Exhibiting the Moral Doctrines and the Civil and Military Policy of the Hindoos. Calcutta: P. S. D'Rozario, 1853.
REPRINT. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (22 x 13.5 x 1 cm.), pp. 112. English text translated literally from the Hindi of Shri Lallu Lal Kab by J. R. A. S. Lowe. Bound in contemporary cloth covers, gilt spine titles, yellow endpapers, printed footnotes. Condition: GOOD. Contents complete. Binding tight and secure. Covers somewhat faded. Some toning to the textblock, the endpapers with some marginal staining. Previous owner name and date to front endpaper. Extremely scarce.
Notes: Shri Lallu Lal Kab was an academic, author and translator from British India. He was an instructor in Hindustani language at Fort William College. He is notable for Prem Sagar, the first work in modern literary Hindi. He had knowledge of Persian and Hindustani. He came to Murshidabad to earn a living and served the Nawab of Murshidabad for 7 years. He was noticed by John Gilchrist, who brought him to the Fort William College in Calcutta. There, he translated and authored several literary works into modern vernacular Hindi. He retired from the Fort William College in 1823-24 CE, after serving there for 24 years. (Source: Wikipedia)
Shri Narain Pandit made a collection of stories from Moral Philosophy into Sanskrit. Having made one book he called its name as Hitopadesa. Then in the year 1869 Shri Lalluji Lal Kab, a Gujarati Brahmin, of Sahasar Audichya family, resident of Agra, extracting the essential meaning thereof, and putting it into the Brij language, gave the book the name of Rajniti - Preface.
