Representing India

Volume VIII

Michael Franklin, Michael John Franklin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000888126
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

First published in 2004. This is Volume VIII looking at Indian Culture and Imperial Control in Eighteenth-Century British Orientalist Discourse. This volume includes the Asiatich Researches: Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal for Inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Advertisement.
• Original Title Page
• I. DISCOURSE the Fourth : on the Arabs
• II. Discourse the Fifth : on the Tartars
• III. Discourse the Sixth : on the Persians
• IV. On the Descent of the Afghans from the Jews
• V. On the Island of Hinzuan
• VI. On the Indian Gross-beak
• VII. On the Chronology of the Hindus
• VIII. On the Cure of the Elephantiasis
• IX. On the Indian Game of Chess
• X. Inscriptions from the Vindhya Mountains
• XI. A Description of Asam
• XII. On the Mountaineers of Tripura
• XIII. On the Book of Chinese Odes
• XIV. On the Introduction of Arabic into Persian
• XV. On the Astronomy of the Hindus
• XVI. On the Indian Zodiac
• XVII. An Account of Nepal
• XVIII. On the Cure of Persons bitten by Snakes
• XIX. On some Roman Coins found at Nelore
• XX. On two Indian Festivals, and the Sphinx
• XXI. On the Isle of Carnicobar
• XXII. On the Medicinal Plants of India
• XXIII. On the dissection of the Pangolin
• XXIV. On the Lac Insect
• XXV. Discourse the Seventh : on the Chinese
• XXVI. An Inscription found near Islamabad
• XXVII. A Supplement to No. VII
• XXVIII. On the Spikenard of the Antients
• Ap. I. A Meteorological Diary
• II. On the Cases in deducing the Longitude &c.
• III. On an Ancient Building in Hajipur
• IV. On some Eclipses of Jupiter’s Satellites
• V. On the Hindu Binomial Theorem
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