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 28 Mar 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste
By Jogendranath Bhattacharya
Published by Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta - 1896

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 25 Mar 2013 Article/Essay
Article:
Pioneers of Orientalism at the VOC - Phillipus Baldaeus
By Luba Zubkova

Another missionary who came to Ceylon upon the conquest of Colombo by the Dutch in 1656 was Phillipus Baldaeus
(1632-1672). A talented cartographer and writer, the Company appointed him a predicant responsible for c... Read More
 25 Mar 2013
New Book:
Merchants of Tamilakam: Pioneers of International Trade
By Kanakalatha Mukund
Published by Penguin UK - 2012

The tale of the Tamil merchant is a fascinating story of the adventure of commercial intercourse in the ancient and early medieval period. Sangam poetry dating back 2000 ye... Read More
 23 Mar 2013
Introducing the Muziris Payrus

When the trade with Muziris started is not known, however a document discovered recently, the Muziris Papyrus in 1985, takes us back to the 2nd century, by which time it seems to have been well established. During the Ptolemaic Roman period (third century B.C. to... Read More
 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
 2 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
'Entree d'une Pagode a Pondichery'. Aquatint by S. Himely after Paris - 1850

Aquatint by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872) after Walter Paris (fl.1849-1891) of the entrance gateway (gopura) of a Hindu temple at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, probably published in c. 1850.

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 1 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
'Marche de Pondichery'.
Aquatint by Himely after Paris - 1850

Aquatint by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872) after Walter Paris (fl.1849-1891) of the market at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, possibly published in c. 1850.

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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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Introduction

"A COMPLETE and connected account of the doings of the FRENCH IN INDIA t... Read More
 23 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
The Rock at Trichinopoly, a Union Jack flying beside the temple at the summit - 1825

Plate seven from '24 Views in Indostan by William Orme'. This aquatint is based on a picture by Francis Swaine Ward (1736-1794). Tiruchchirappalli (known to the British as Trichinopoly) is a city situated on t... Read More
 12 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
GAJA SASTRAM
By Palakapya Muni
Edited with translation in Tamil by K.S.Subrahmanya Sastri
Summary in English by S.Gopalan
Printed at The Trichinopoly United Printers, Tiruchirapalli - 1958
In Sanskrit

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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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 4 Jan 2013 Rare Photographs
Padmanabha Swamy Temple at Trivandrum - 1895

Photograph of the gopura of the Padmanabha Temple at Trivandrum, taken by Zachariah D'Cruz in the 1890s from the 'Album of South Indian Views' of the Curzon Collection. This ancient Hindu temple is one of the greatest of Kerala and was patronised main... Read More
 22 Dec 2012
Munshi and teachers of Lord Harris's School, Royapett, Madras - 1865

Photograph of a group of three Indian and one European teacher at Lord Harris's School, Royapett, Madras in Tamil Nadu from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (Volume 46), taken in the 1860s b... Read More
 27 Nov 2012
New Book:
The Lost River: On The Trail Of The Sarasvati
By Michel Danino
Published by Penguin Books India - 2010

Book Summary:
The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic... Read More
 21 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Opaque watercolour painting on European paper of a Maratha performer and his drummer. The man, with an imposing moustache stands singing or reciting. He wears a long jama, tied at the waist by a sash, with two bands across his chest. On his head is a turban adorned with an aigrette; around his ne... Read More
 7 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Porch of Parvati's Temple at Chidambaram - 1847

This is plate 19 from James Fergusson's 'Ancient Architecture in Hindoostan'. Chidambaram is the sacred spot where Shiva, in the form of Nataraja, danced his powerful cosmic dance. It has been a place of pilgrimage in Tamil Nadu since about the n... Read More
 7 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
View of the Pagoda of Chidambaram - 1762

Drawing by F. Swain Ward in c.1762 of the temple at Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, part of King George III's Topographical Collection. The town of Chidambaram is a famed religious and artistic centre in south India. The temple here is dedicated to Shiva in ... Read More
 22 Oct 2012
Conflict of Durga with Mahishasura - Mahishasuramardini Cave Temple, Mamallapuram - 1880

Photograph taken by Nicholas and Co in ca. 1880 at Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram) in Tamil Nadu, showing a sculptural frieze of Durga seated on a lion, shooting arrows at Mahishasura. Most of the temples and... Read More
 18 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Brahmanism and Hinduism
By Monier-Monier Williams
Published by Macmillan & Co., New York - 1891

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Painting; gouache and watercolour, Three Brahmin couples; a Tamil Sonarta Brahmin, a Ta... Read More
 31 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde
Fait par ordre du roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque de soleil, le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du même mois 1769.
By Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean Baptiste Le Gentil De La Galaisière,
Published 1779 by De l'imprimerie royale in Par... Read More