The Annals of the College of Fort William

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• Fort William College was an academy established in Calcutta in 1800 by the British colonial administrator Richard Wellesley (1760-1842). Its purpose w... Lees meer

A Dictionary of the Mahratta Language

William Carey

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• Marathi, an official language of Maharashtra and Goa, is among the twenty most widely spoken languages in the world. The southernmost Indo-Aryan langu... Lees meer

The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

William Knighton

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• William Knighton (d. 1900) published this history of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in 1845. He spent most of his career there and in India, and publi... Lees meer

A Synopsis of Science 2 Volume Set

James R Ballantyne

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• James Robert Ballantyne (1813-64) taught oriental languages in India for sixteen years, compiling grammars of Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian, along with ... Lees meer

Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences, During the British Embassy to Pekin, in 1816

George Thomas Staunton

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• Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), Sinologist and politician, was a key figure in Anglo-Chinese relations, as had been his father. In 1798 he beg... Lees meer

A Grammar of the Bengal Language

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

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• The language of Bangladesh, West Bengal and parts of Tripura and Assam, Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language originating from Sanskrit. With over 230 mil... Lees meer

Two Treatises on the Hindu Law of Inheritance

Jimutavahana, Vijnaneshwara

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• Published in 1810, this work was one of the key translations of texts that formed part of the law books of the Anglo-Indian civil courts under the Eas... Lees meer

The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa

Mohammed Ben Musa

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• Mohammed ben Musa (c.780-c.850) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer. The word 'algebra' derives from his Compendious Book on Calculation by Com... Lees meer

Traité de la Chronologie Chinoise, Divisé En Trois Parties

Antoine Gaubil

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• A French Jesuit and missionary to China, Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759) spent half his life in Beijing. His rigorous translations and studies in the field... Lees meer

A Dictionary and Grammar of the Malayan Language

William Marsden

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• Published in 1812, this study of Malay in its written form was begun during William Marsden's service with the East India Company in Sumatra (1771-9).... Lees meer

History of the Afghans

Haravi Nimat Allah

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• History of the Afghans was compiled by Nimat Allah (fl. 1613-30) at the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir (1569-1627). Drawing on various manuscrip... Lees meer

Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palaeographic 2 Volume Set

James Prinsep

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• A key figure in the history of Benares (Varanasi), James Prinsep (1799-1840) was instrumental in expanding Western knowledge of Indian civilisation. A... Lees meer

A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, Termed Shen-Tamil

C G Beschi

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• Published in 1822, but completed in manuscript form almost 100 years earlier, this work was designed to accompany Beschi's earlier Grammar of Common T... Lees meer

The History of India 2 Volume Set

Mountstuart Elphinstone

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• Appointed through family influence to the East India Company, Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) arrived on the subcontinent in 1796, quickly learnin... Lees meer

Life of Edward William Lane

Stanley Lane-Poole

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• The orientalist Edward William Lane (1801-1876) is best remembered for his mighty Arabic-English Lexicon and his classic translation of One Thousand a... Lees meer

The Cave Temples of India

James Fergusson, James Burgess

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• Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808-86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India, the profits from which allowed him to embark upon a second ... Lees meer

A Translation of the Memoirs of Eradut Khan

Iradat Khan

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• A nobleman of the court of the Mughal emperor, Iradat Khan (c.1649-1716) experienced the rule of Aurangzeb (1618-1707) and observed at first hand the ... Lees meer

History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, Till the Year AD 1612 4 Volume Set

Mahomed Kasim Ferishta

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• The Persian chronicler Ferishta (1560-1620) composed his great work, published in this four-volume English translation in 1829, at the court of Bijapu... Lees meer

Relation de l'Égypte Par Abd-Allatif, Médecin Arabe de Bagdad

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• A native of Baghdad, Abd-Allatif (1162-1231) was a versatile scholar and scientist of vast erudition. This prolific author travelled widely throughout... Lees meer

The Dervishes

John P Brown

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• An American diplomat and self-taught scholar of the history and languages of the Islamic world, John Porter Brown (1814-72) published in 1868 this ill... Lees meer

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians 2 Volume Set

Edward William Lane

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• Edward William Lane (1801-76) published this work in two volumes in 1836. Resident in the country for many years, and fluent in Arabic, he devoted his... Lees meer

Bija Ganita; Or, the Algebra of the Hindus

Bhascara Acharya

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• An important mathematician and astronomer in medieval India, Bhascara Acharya (1114-85) wrote treatises on arithmetic, algebra, geometry and astronomy... Lees meer

A Grammar of the Mahratta Language

William Carey

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• Marathi, an official language of Maharashtra and Goa, is among the twenty most widely spoken languages in the world. The southernmost Indo-Aryan langu... Lees meer

Historical Sketches of the South of India 3 Volume Set

Mark Wilks

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• Classically educated, Mark Wilks (c.1760-1831) joined the Madras army of the East India Company and would go on to serve as political resident at the ... Lees meer