Pringle Kennedy was an author and barrister

Barrister

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. He wrote 2 books (during 1905-1925) for which he is best known:

• A History of the Great Moghuls (Or A History of the Badshahate of Delhi From 1398 AD To 1739), in 2 volumes, during 1905-1911.

• Arabian Society at the Time of Muhammad, published in 1926, by Thacker, Spink & Co. (Calcutta, India).

Pringle Kennedy has observed (Arabian Society at the Time of Muhammad, pp.8-10, 18-21): "Muhammad was, to use a striking expression, the man of the hour."
In 1908, the young Bengali revolutionary, Khudi Ram Bose, an 18 year-old, was hanged for throwing a bomb

Alipore bomb case

The Alipore Bomb Case was an important court trial, during May 1908 to May 1909, in the history of the Indian Independence Movement. The trial involved more than 37 suspects, following a bomb attack, and was held in Alipore Sessions Court, in Calcutta, India, Judge C.P...

at the carriage of Pringle Kennedy and killing his wife and daughter.

Pringle Kennedy died in 1925.