Posted on: 20 November 2010

Digital Rare Book :
Essays on Indian antiquities, historic, numismatic, and palæographic, of the late James Prinsep, to which are added his useful tables, illustrative of Indian history, chronology, modern coinages, weights, measures etc.
By Edward Thomas
Published by J.Murray, London - 1858
(In Two Volumes)


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Read Book Online : VOLUME 1 - http://www.archive.org/stream/essaysonindiana06pringoog#page/n6/mode/2up VOLUME 2 - http://www.archive.org/stream/essaysonindiana05pringoog#page/n8/mode/2up

Download pdf Book : VOLUME 1 - http://books.google.com/books?id=gWhCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false VOLUME 2 - http://books.google.com/books?id=2VlCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

All about James Prinsep : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prinsep

Wonderful to see that these books are digitized by the University of California, Google and Microsoft!

For a great deal of further information about James Prinsep the other early 'orientalists' (Jones, Wilson etc) and the establishment of the Asiastic Society and the College of Fort William, see: "British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance" by David Kopf [London,1969]

And read D R Bhandarkar for a rebuttal of Prinsep's pet theories? Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics for example?