Rare Books
 23 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Indian Conch (Turbinella pyrum, Linn.) and its relation to Hindu life and religion
By James Hornell
Published by Williams and Norgate, London - 1915

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 22 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The worship of creative energy as symbolized by the serpent
By Charles Edward Herring
A dissertation presented to the New York University - 1907

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 22 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Sun and the Serpent: A contribution to the history of serpent-worship
By Charles Frederick Oldham
Published by Archibald Constable & Co., London - 1905

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 22 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Rough Notes on the Snake symbol in India, in connection with the worship of Siva
By John Henry Rivet-Carnac
Reprinted from The Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta
- 1879

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 21 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Heart of Jainism
By Mrs.Sinclair Stevenson
Published by Humphrey Milford, London - 1915

INTRODUCTION

To the general public Jainism is little more than a mere name, and even students of the Religions of India have often failed to give it the attention it well may claim. T... Read More
 20 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Some contributions of South India to Indian culture
By Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Published by The University of Calcutta - 1923

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The Chronological Datum In The LOKAVIBHAGA

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 13 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Hand-Book of India - A guide to the stranger and the traveller, and a companion to the resident.
By Joachim Hayward Stocqueler
Published by W.H. Allen & Co., London - 1844

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 12 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Book Collecting
By Milton Alexander Buchanan
Published by The University of Toronto - 1931

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 3 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Flowers And Gardens In India
By W. Burns
Published by Thacker & Spink, Calcutta - 1934


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Pride-of-India, queen flower or pyinma (Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.): flowerin... Read More
 7 May 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A classified collection of Tamil proverbs
By Rev. Herman Jensen
Published by The Methodist Episcopal Publishing House, Madras - 1897

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Pagoda at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu - 1797
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 2 May 2012 Rare BOOKS
Archiving through personal records with an interface like Facebook has made old worlds come alive.
By Deepika Sorabjee
Economic Times - 2 May, 2012

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My attention-deficit ways haven't stopped me from clicking - and very religiously - on ... Read More
 20 Apr 2012 Rare BOOKS
You can make a difference!

Dinyar Patel has been writing a series of revelatory articles in The New York Times and more recently in The Hindu on the sad state of the archives in our country, which many of you have read on the RBSI.

I now request and urge the more concerned and regular participa... Read More
 29 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
When Kings rode to Delhi
By Gabrielle Festing
Published by William Blackwood & Sons. London - 1913 Read More
 10 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen thousand miles a-wheel among the Temples and People of the Indian-Plain.
By William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York - 1904

Travels through India primarily by bicycle through Mysore, Calcu... Read More
 10 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ralph Fitch : England's pioneer to India and Burma : His companions and contemporaries, with his remarkable narrative told in his own words.
By John Horton Ryley
Published by T.Fisher Unwin, London - 1899

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 9 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of the Tranquebar Mission
Worked out from the original papers by J. Ferd. Fenger
Published in Danish and translated into English from the German of Emil Francke
Published by Evangelical Lutheran Press, Tranquebar - 1863

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 9 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Home life among the Tamil in the Sangam Age
By K. Gnanambal
Printed at The Central Art Press, Madras - 1947

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 8 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Journal of an Embassy from the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava
By John Crawfurd
Published by Henry Colburn, London - 1834
In Two Volumes

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Watercolour with pen and ink of a view of the King's Palace at Amarapura from 'A Series of Views in Burmah taken during... Read More
 8 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of Burma - Including Burma proper, Pegu, Taungu, Tenasserim, and Arakan : From the earliest time to the end of the first war with British India.
By Sir Arthur Purves Phayre
Published by Trubner & co., London - 1883

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 8 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
ACCOUNT OF PEGU IN THE 1560s
By Cesar Federici of Venice

"Cesar Fedrici travelled in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East in the 1560s-1580s and his account has been immensely influential in the literature. One reason for this, is that it is not given to the hyperbole... Read More
 7 Feb 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Notes on Indian History
By Karl Marx
Published by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow - 1923 Read More