Rare Books
 11 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Observations on the sculptures in the Cave Temples of Ellora
By Captain Robert Melville Grindlay
Accompanied by plates
Published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland- 1st January 1829

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 10 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
An account of some sculptures in the Cave Temples of Ellora
By Captain Robert Melville Grindlay
Accompanied by plates
Published in the Transactions of Bombay Literary Society - 1828

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 8 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Truth about Indian Opium
By G. Graham Dixon
Published H.M. Stationery Office, London - 1922

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Opium being created ready for despatch, Patna, ca.1857
By Shiva Lal

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 6 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Truth about Opium-Smoking
Stated by Missionaries, Chinese Officials, Archbishops, Bishops, Members of Parliament; and others; with illustrations.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London - 1882

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 5 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
British Opium Policy and its results to India and China
By F. S. Turner
Published by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London - 1876

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 5 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The rise and progress of British opium smuggling; the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug; and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain.
By Major-General R. Alexander
Published by Judd and Glass, London - 1856

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 5 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
An Essay on the Opium Trade - Including a sketch of its history, extent, effects, etc., as carried on in India and China.
By Nathan Allen
Published by James P.Walker, London - 1853

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 4 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Annals of Rural Bengal
By William Wilson Hunter
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London - 1868

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The famine of 1770 was therefore a one year's famine, caused by the general failure of the December harvest in 1769, and intensified by a partial failure of the cr... Read More
 3 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Fashionable Contrasts - Caricatures by James Gillray
Introduced by Draper Hill
Published by Phaidon Press, London - 1966

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 3 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray
By Thomas Wright and R.H.Evans
Published by Henry G. Bohn, London - 1851

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 3 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Governors-Generals of India
By Henry Morris
Published by The Christian Literature Society, Madras - 1894

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Warren Hastings
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1811

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 25 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Seringapatam - Past and Present
By Col.G.B.Malleson
Published by Higginbotham & Co., Madras - 1876

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SERINGAPATAM 1850s-1890s

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 25 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Tippoo Sultaun- A Tale of the Mysore War
By Captain Meadows Taylor
Published by Richard Bentley, London - 1840
In Three Volumes

VOLUME 3:

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 25 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Tippoo Sultaun- A Tale of the Mysore War
By Captain Meadows Taylor
Published by Richard Bentley, London - 1840
In Three Volumes

VOLUME 2:

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 25 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Tippoo Sultaun- A Tale of the Mysore War
By Captain Meadows Taylor
Published by Richard Bentley, London - 1840
In Three Volumes

VOLUME 1:

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Portrait of Tipu Sultan
Patna, circa 1830
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 24 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Travancore State Manual
By V. Nagam Aiya
Dewan Peishcar, Travancore.
Published by Travancore Government Press, Trivandrum - 1906

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 22 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Essays - Ideal and Progress
By Aurobindo Ghose
Published by Arya Publishing House, Calcutta - 1922

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Therefore wherever and whenever the mere practical man abounds and excludes or discourages by his domination the idealist, there is the least work and the least va... Read More
 22 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A System of National Education
By Aurobindo Ghose
Published by Tagore & Co., Madras - 1921

Book Excerpt:

The true basis of Education is the study of the human mind, infant, adolescent, and adult. Any system of Education founded on theories of academic perfection, which ignor... Read More
 22 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Kalidasa
By Sri Aurobindo
Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry - 1954

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Painted by Barindra Kumar Ghose

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 21 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Hindu Dharma
By Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Published in The International Journal of Ethics - October 1, 1922

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 21 Feb 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
East and West in Religion
By Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London - 1933

Book Excerpt:

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND INDIAN FAITHS

This point may be illustrated by a reference to the delicate question of the attitude of the Christian missionaries... Read More