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 9 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Adventures of the Panjab hero Raja Rasalu, and other folk-tales of the Panjab
Collected and compiled from original sources by Rev.Charles Swynnerton
Published by W. Newman & Co., Ltd., Calcutta - 1884

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 9 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Romantic tales from the Panjab with Indian nights' entertainment
By Charles Swynnerton
Published by Archibald Constable, London - 1908

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Heer and Ranjha
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 5 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Nights' Entertainment or, Folk-tales from the Upper Indus
By Rev.Charles Swynnerton
Published by Elliot Stock, London - 1892

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 5 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Santal Folk Tales
By A.Campbell
Printed at Santal Mission Press, Pokhuria - 1891

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Pata, scroll. Two registers; blue elephant; women figures. Frayed edges and repairs. Painted in water-colour on paper.
Santal
1920-1930 (circa)

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 4 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
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 3 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Folk-tales: Being side-lights on village life in Bilaspore, Central Provinces
By E.M.Gordon
Published by Elliot Stock, London - 1909

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 3 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Folk-tales of Kashmir
By Rev. J. Hinton Knowles
Published by Trubner & Co., London -1888

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 3 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Folk-tales of the Khasis
By K.U.Rafy
Published by Macmillan and Co., London - 1920

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 3 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Folk-tales of Bengal
By Rev. Lal Bihari Day
Illustrated by Warwick Goble
Published by Macmillan and Co., London - 1912

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 31 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Report of a second tour in search of Sanskrit manuscripts made in Rajputana and Central India in 1904-5 and 1905-6
By Shridhar R. Bhandarkar
Printed at The Government Central Press, Bombay - 1907

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 31 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Rhymes of Rajputana
By Col.G.H.Trevor
Published by Macmillan and Co., London - 1894

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 30 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Photographs of architecture and scenery in Gujarat and Rajputana
Photographed by Bourne and Shepherd
With historical and descriptive letterpress by James Burgess
Published by Bourne and Shepherd, Bombay - 1874

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 29 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Mutinies in Rajpootana - Being a personal narrative of the mutiny at Nusseerabad, with subsequent residence at Jodhpore, and journey across the desert into Sind, together with an account of the outbreak at Neemuch, and mutiny of the Jodhpore legion at Erinpoora, and attack ... Read More
 29 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Bardic and Historical Survey of Rajputana - A descriptive catalogue of bardic and historical manuscripts
By Dr.L.P.Tessitori
Published by Asiatic Society, Calcutta - 1917

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 18 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Travel Pictures -The record of a European tour by Bhawani Singh; with photogravure portrait and 96 illustrations from photographs by the author.
By Bhawani Singh - Raj Rana Bahadur of Jhalawar
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1912

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 15 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Piccola Enciclopedia Indiana
By Angelo De Gubernatis
Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Literature, Florence
Published by M.Cellini, Firenze (Florence) - 1867
In Italian

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 15 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Zoological Mythology or The Legends of Animals
By Angelo De Gubernatis
Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Literature, Florence
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1872

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 14 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Rare Book Reprint:
Revealing India's Past: A co-operative record of archaeological conservation and exploration in India and beyond by twenty-two authorities British, Indian and Continental
Edited by Sir John Cumming. Foreword by Alfred Foucher

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 14 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Inscriptions from the Cave-temples of Western India
By James Burgess and Bhagwanlal Indraji Pandit
Published by Government Central Press, Bombay - 1881

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 13 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Report on the Elura cave temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina caves in western India; completing the results of the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons' operations of the Archaeological survey, 1877-78, 1878-79, 1879-80. Supplementary to the volume on "The cave temples of India.... Read More
 12 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A short guide to the cave temples of Elura
By Shamsul Ulama, Syed Ali Bilgrami
Published by H. Plumbe, Madras - 1898

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Great excavated temple at Ellora - 1813

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