Mr. Corwell: someone suggested that I read your Sharpe India books, and having done so am most impressed (started with the second). Somehow I never came across them, although I wrote a history of the Indian army back in the 1960s (The Indian Army: Its Contribution to the development of a Nation). I’m revising it, and found your description of the operatons of the army to be most helpful in putting an image to the social and political environment that I once researched (in the India libarary, among other places). I look forward to “Tiger,” I visited Tipu’s fort for the first time a year ago, hope to get to Assaye one of these days. best wishes, Stephen Cohen The Brookings Institution, Washingotn DC (and former professor of Indian History/Politics at the U of Illinois, USA)