'Deification stele with figure of Harihara, in the Residency garden, Kediri, East Java, 1866-67'
The colonial authorities in the Dutch East Indies had first used photography to document the great Buddhist stupa of Borobudur in 1844, but this very early archaeological project proved abortive an...
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His Highness KRISHNA RAJA WADIYAR III (1794 – 27 March 1868) (Kannada: ಮುಮ್ಮಡಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಒಡೆಯರ್) was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore in India. Also known as Mummadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar, he belonged to the Wadiyar dynasty and ruled his state for nearly seventy years, from 30 Ju...
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Digital Rare Book:
The War of the Worlds
By Herbert George Wells
Published William Heinemann, London - 1898
War of the Worlds was written in response to several historical events. The most important was the unification and militarization of Germany, which led to a series of novels predicting wa...
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The Borobudur Temple Compounds is one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world, and was built in the 8th and 9th centuries AD during the reign of the Syailendra Dynasty. The monument is located in the Kedu Valley, in the southern part of Central Java,...
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With the rise of Buddhism in India, there arose many centres of learning which did not exist before. As a result Buddhist India came to have five major universities which achieved wide fame. These five were NALANDA, Vickramasila, Odantapuri,Jagadalala and Somapura. In the 10th century when Hieun ...
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New Book:
Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin MacKenzie (1784-1821)
By Jennifer Howes
Published by Oxford University Press - 2010
Colin Mackenzie, the first Surveyor General of India, left behind a massive collection of manuscripts and drawings gathered between 1784 an...
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Sculpture of Nandi from a temple at Dracheram - 21 July 1815
Pen and ink drawing of a sculpture of Nandi from Dracheram, by an anonymous artist, part of the MacKenzie Collection and from an album of 37 drawings (43 folios) of sculpture at Jajpur, Puri, Bezwada and Sitanagar made during a journ...
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Titel Les Indes orientales [Kartenmaterial] : sous le nom dêqueles est compris l’empire du Grand Mogol, les deux presqu’isles de ça et de la le Gange, les Maldives, et l’isle de Ceylan a quoy quelque uns joignent encore les grandes isles de la Sonde, qui sont Sumata, Java, et Borneo: les Phili...
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New Book:
Illustrating India : The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784-1821)
By Jennifer Howes
Published by Oxford University Press - 2010
Colin Mackenzie, the first Surveyor General of India, left behind a massive collection of manuscripts and drawings gathered between 1...
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Digital Rare Book:
Storms and Sunshine of a Soldier's Life : Colin Mackenzie, 1825-1881
By Helen Douglas Mackenzie
Published by David Douglas, Edinburgh - 1884
In Two Volumes
Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist. He produced many...
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Digital Rare Book:
India as known to the Ancient World - India's intercourse in ancient times with her neighbours, Egypt, Western Asia, Greece, Rome, Central Asia, China, Further India and Indonesia
By Gauranga Nath Banerjee
Published by Humphrey Milford, London - 1921