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Born in 1808, '''Philip Meadows Taylor''' arrived in India in 1824. Through contacts he obtained a commission in the Army of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Between 1826 and 1829 he held such posts as Superintendent of Bazaars at Bolarum and Assistant Superintendent of Police in the South-western districts, but returned to his regiment in 1830, where he became a Captain in 1835. In 1841 he was appointed Political Agent at Shorapur. He remained in India until he retired in 1860 due to ill health. He subsequently lived in Dublin, where he continued to write.
He published under the name Meadows Taylor. The first of his many six novels set in India was ''Confessions of a Thug'' published in 1839, followed by ''Tippoo Sultan: A Tale of the Mysore War'', in 1840.
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meadows_Taylor Philip Meadows Taylor] Wikipedia. Retrieved 2 September 2014
*[http://www.victoriansecrets.co.uk/victorian-fiction-research-guides/philip-meadows-taylor/ "Victorian Fiction Research Guides: Philip Meadows Taylor"] by David Finkelstein victoriansecrets.co.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2014
*[https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6536 ''Study of the works of Philip Meadows Taylor''] by David Finkelstein 1990 PhD Thesis University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2 September 2014
*[http://members.iinet.net.au/~cgosling@ozemail.com.au/Taylor.html Philip Meadows Taylor]. Website of Chris Gosling. Retrieved 2 September 2014
