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 3 Mar 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Military Memoir of Lieut-Col. James Skinner, C. B.: For many years a distinguished officer commanding a corps of irregular cavalry in the service of H.E.I.C.
By James Baillie Fraser
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London - 1851
In Two Volumes

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 21 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
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The Theory and Practice of Caste - Being an inquiry into the effects of caste on the institutions and probable destinies of the Anglo-Indian empire
By Benjamin Atkinson Irving
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London - 1853


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 20 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India (1837)

This is a manuscript titled "Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India", which consists of 72 full-color hand-painted images of men and women of the various castes and religious and ethnic groups found in Madura, India at that tim... Read More
 17 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
St. Thomas, the Apostle, in India
An investigation based on the latest researches in connection with the time-honoured tradition regarding the martyrdom of St. Thomas in southern India.
By F.A. D'Cruz
Printed by Hoe & Co., Madras - 1922

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 17 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
William Carey : The shoemaker who became "the father and founder of modern missions"
By John Brown Myers
Published by Fleming D. Rebell Co., Philadelphia - 1887


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 17 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The First Hindoo Convert: A Memoir of Krishna Pal, a Preacher of the Gospel to his countrymen more than twenty years.
Published by The American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia - 1852


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 16 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Divine Archer
Founded on the Indian epic of the Ramayana, with two stories from the Mahabharata
By Frederick James Gould
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons, London - 1911

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 15 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
RAMAYANA id est carmen epicum de Ramae rebus gestis, poetae antiquissimi Valmicis opus
Textum codd. Mss. collatis recensuit interpretationem Latinam E.
By August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Published by Prostat Apud Eduardum Weber, Bonnae - 1846
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 14 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Oudh and The East India Company, 1785-1801
By Purnendu Basu
Published by Maxwell & Co., Lucknow - 1943

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 13 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
BESHAJAKALPA
A Treatise on the technology of Ayurvedic Science By Venkatacharyulu
With a Telugu Commentary 'Prakasika' by Pandit D. Gopalacharlu
Published by Ayurvedasrama, Madras - 1914
In Telugu


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 12 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Indian Operation of Couching for Cataract
By Robert Henry Elliot
Published by Paul B. Hoeber, New York - 1918

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 11 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
An English translation of THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA
Based on original Sanskrit text.
Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna.

With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comperative views, index, glossary and plates.

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 10 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine
By Thomas T. Wise
Published by Thacker & Co., Calcutta - 1845


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 10 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The CHARAKA-SAMHITA by Mahamuni Agnibesha
Revised by Maharshi Charaka
Sanskrit medical text.
Compiled and Edited by Devendranath Sen Gupta and Upendranath Sen Gupta
Published by Dhanvantari Machine Press, Calcutta -1897

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 9 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of Hindu Chemistry
From the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D., with Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations.
By Prafulla Chandra Ray
Published by The Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works, Ltd., Calcutta - 1903


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 8 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
SIVA CHHATRAPATI - Being a translation of Sabhasad Bakhar with extracts from Chitnis and Sivadigvijya
Edited by Surendranath Sen
Published by University of Calcutta in Calcutta, 1920

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 7 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Narrative sketches of the Conquest of the Mysore: Effected by the British Troops and their allies, in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory.
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 5 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Official Documents, Relative to the Negotiations Carried on by Tippoo Sultaun By The French Nation and other Foreign States for the Purposes Hostile to the British Nation to which is added Proceedings of a Jacobin Club formed at Seringapatam, by the French Soldiers in Corps com... Read More
 4 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
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Authentic memoirs of Tippoo Sultaun, including his cruel treatment of English prisoners; account of his campaigns with the mahrattas, rajahs, Warren Hastings, Lord Cornwallis and Lord Mornington; plunders, captures, intrigues and secret correspondence with France as laid before... Read More
 3 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Final French Struggles in India and on the Indian Seas : Including an account of the capture of the Isles of France and ... ; with an appendix containing an account of the expedition from India to Egypt in 1801
By Col. George Bruce Malleson
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 1 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of the French in India, from the founding of Pondicherry in 1674 to the capture of that place in 1761
By Col.G.B. Malleson
Published by W.H.Allen & Co., London - 1893


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