Posted on: 22 August 2015

Digital Rare Book:
The Modern Traveller - India
Volume 2
By Josiah Conder (1789-1855)
Published James Duncan, London - 1830

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A View of the Island Fort of Seringapatam - 1792

Etching of Seringapatam (Srirangapattana), the capital of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, published by D. Orme & Co. in 1792 and part of King George III's Topographical Collection. Located a few kms from Mysore on an island in the River Cauvery (Kaveri), Srirangapattana became famous because of the bloody struggle between the British and Tipu, waged through the Anglo-Mysore Wars, which only ended in 1799 when General Harris captured the town and Tipu died fighting. A progressive and brave administrator, Tipu posed one of the few threats to the British as they expanded their control over India. This view was executed after the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Mysore War, 1789-92, when the British gained victory and imposed harsh terms on Tipu. A note accompanying this view explains that this is 'the Capital of Tippoo Sultan, and in which are contained his Haram and Treasures. The taking of which was the chief object of our military movements during the late war in India. And to save which Tippoo Sultan agreed to pay the expenses of the war, relinquish the most fertile Half of his Territories and gave his two sons as hostages for the performance of the Treaty'.

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Josiah Conder, (17 September 1789 – 27 December 1855), correspondent of Robert Southey and well connected to romantic authors of his day, was editor of the British literary magazine The Eclectic Review, the Nonconformist and abolitionist newspaper The Patriot, the author of romantic verses, poetry, and many popular hymns that survive to this day. His most ambitious non-fiction work was the thirty-volume worldwide geographical tome The Modern Traveller; and his best-selling compilation book The Congregational Hymn Book. Conder was a prominent London Congregationalist, an abolitionist, and took an active part in seeking to repeal British anti-Jewish laws. Although Josiah Conder never travelled abroad himself, he compiled all thirty volumes of The Modern Traveller, his non-fiction publishing epic covering the geography of many of countries of the world. It sold well, but was outsold by his Congregational Hymn Book, some 90,000 copies of which were ordered in its first seven years. - Wiki

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