Rare Books
 9 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Memoir On The Indian Surveys
By Clements R. Markham
Published by W.H.Allen & Co., London - 1878

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This is an early British work on the great trignometric survey that started in Madras and went to Bangalore and then on to find the height of Mt Everest. T... Read More
 8 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Account of the operations of The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
By Colonel Sidney G.Burrard
Printed at The Trigonometrical Survey of India, Dehra Dun - 1906

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 8 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of the Sikhs or Translation of the Sikkhan de raj di vikhia.
Together with a short Gurmukhi grammar, and an appendix containing some useful technical words, in roman character.
By Sardha Ram
Translated and edited by Henry Court
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 6 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Dickinsons' comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851
By Joseph Nash and others
Published by Dickinson Brothers, London - 1852

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"...The present of the Rajah of Travancore to the Queen, consisting of a splendid ivory chair of state, with a foot-stool, beautifully carved and o... Read More
 6 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Dickinsons' comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851
By Joseph Nash and others
Published by Dickinson Brothers, London - 1852

If you took an omnibus along London's Knightsbridge in the summer of 1851, you would see an astonishing sight. Glittering among the tree... Read More
 5 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Brief Sketch of Travancore, the Model State of India: The Country, Its People and Its Progress under the Maharajah
By S.Ramanath Aiyer
Published by Western Star Press, Trevandrum - 1903

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 4 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Travancore State Manual
By V. Nagam Aiya
Dewan Peishcar, Travancore.
Published in 1906 by Travancore Government Press, Trivandrum

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Ariyankavu Temple - 1900

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 1 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Materia Medica of the Hindus - Compiled from Sanksrit Medical works
By Udoy Chand Dutt
Published by Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta - 1877

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 31 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Shale oils and tars and their products
By Dr.W.Scheithauer
Published by Scott, Greenwood, London - 1913

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 31 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics
By George Shoobridge CARR
Published by Francis Hodgson, London - 1886

The book that inspired and introduced Srinivasa Ramanujan to Higher Mathematics....

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 30 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Mathematicians Apology
By G.H.Hardy
Published by Cambridge University Press - 1940

"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way," G. H. Hardy wrote. "Beauty... Read More
 29 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The English works of Raja Rammohun Roy
Edited by Jogendra Chunder Ghose
Published by Srikanta Roy, Calcutta- 1901

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 29 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hindu widow re-marriage and other tracts
By Mahatma Gandhi
Published in 1920

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In Vrindavan
By Arpana Caur

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 29 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The high-caste Hindu woman
By Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Published by Fleming H.Revell co., New York - 1901

Born in Maharashtra, Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) became a lecturer and founded the Arya Mahila Somaj to promote women's education and prevent child-marriage. She converte... Read More
 28 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee, a kinswoman of the Pundita Ramabai
By Mrs.Carolyn Healy Dall
Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston - 1888

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 28 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Jungle Days - Being the experiences of an American woman Doctor in India
By Arley Munson, M.D.
Published by D. Appleton and Co. New York - 1913


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 26 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan
By Sir Aurel Stein
Published by Hurst and Blackett, London - 1904

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 26 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
On Alexander's Track to the Indus
By Sir Aurel Stein
Published by Macmillan & Co., London - 1929

In the 1870s at the Kreuzschule of Dresden, one of Stein’s teachers gave him a copy of The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, the 2nd century Greek historian. As a child Stein becam... Read More
 24 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Rasa Mala or Hindoo Annals of the Province of Goozerat
By Alexander Kinloch Forbes
Published by Richardson & co., London - 1878


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 22 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The life and letters of Lord Macaulay
By Sir George Otto Trevelyan
Published by Harper and Brothers, New York - 1876

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 22 Dec 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Musalmáns : being three letters reprinted from the "Times" : with an article on the late Prince Consort and four articles on education reprinted from the "Calcutta Englishman" : with an appendix containing Lord Macaulay's minute.
By William Nassau Lees
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