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 24 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Vestiges of Old Madras
By Henry Davison Love
Published by John Murray, London - 1913
Volume 1

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Though not the earliest British settlement in the Indian Peninsul... Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Southern India
By Fanny Emily Penny
Painted by Lady Lawley
Published by A & C Black, London - 1914

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A SADHU

One who has lived under vows, perfo... Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Sketches in Scinde
By Lieut. William Edwards and Charles Haghe
Published by Henry Graves and Co., London - 1846

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 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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Curry and Rice: On Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station in India"
By Captain George Francklin Atkinson
Published by Day and Son, London - 1860 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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Curry and Rice: On Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station in India"
By Captain George Francklin Atkinson
Published by Day and Son, London - 1860 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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Curry and Rice: On Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station in India"
By Captain George Francklin Atkinson
Published by Day and Son, London - 1860 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Curry and Rice: On Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station in India"
By Captain George Francklin Atkinson
Published by Day and Son, London - 1860

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 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot
By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest
Published by R. Ackermann, London - 1824 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot
By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest
Published by R. Ackermann, London - 1824 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot
By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest
Published by R. Ackermann, London - 1824 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot
By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest
Published by R. Ackermann, London - 1824 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
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A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot
By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest
Published by R. Ackermann, London - 1824 Read More
 23 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot
By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest
Published by R. Ackermann, London - 1824

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 22 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Sketches of Indian Life
By Willam Whitelock Llyod
Published by Chapman and Hall, London - 1890

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Consists of 18 chromolithographic plates and full-page illustrations, with caption... Read More
 19 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
Ruined palace and temple at Vijayanagar - 1800

Water-colour of a ruined palace and temple at Vijayanagar, dated 1800. Inscribed on front in ink: 'Sketch of the Ancient Palace & one of the Pagodas at Alputtun. December 1800'; in pencil: 'Copied. Mar. 1816.'

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 5 Jul 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Jews In India And Far East
By J. Henry Lord
First published by Mission Press, Kolhapur - 1907

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Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of a Jewish lady in European dress probably taken in t... Read More
 26 Jun 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
ORISSA
By W.W. Hunter
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London - 1872

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The Coast of India, from Point Gordeware to the Ganges Comprehend... Read More
 30 Apr 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Lord William Bentinck
By Demetrius C. Boulger
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1897

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EDUCATION

Of all the acts associated with the administration of Lord William Bentin... Read More
 30 Apr 2017 Rare BOOKS
The original record can be viewed at the National Archives of India site:

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The 'actual' Macaulay's Minute on Education, by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated the 2nd February 1835.

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 25 Apr 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Open letters to Lord Curzon on famines and land assessments in India
By Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848-1909)
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London - 1900

Five open letters to Lord Curzon on : Famine Insurance Grant, Railways and Irrigation and Fallacies concerning... Read More
 23 Apr 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Famines, their Causes and Prevention
By Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848-1909)
Published by P.S.king & Son, London - 1901

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A family was starving in a relief camp during the Madras Famine... Read More