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Historical and Descriptive Account of British India: From the Most Remote Period to the Present Time Volume 3rd
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Paperback. Etat : New. Language: English. About The Book -: The great and increasing favour experienced by the Edinburgh Library Cabinet has induced the Publishers to employ the utmost exertion to make the present work, as it is more extensive than any of its predecessors, still more deserving of public approbation. To embody in a popular form and moderate compass a full view of the History, the Natural Features, the Political and Social State of British India, was, they were sensible, a task Which could be better accomplished by a combination of Varied talents than by any one individual.He then proceeds to exhibit that splendid series of discovery and Triumph by which the Portuguese achieved the Maritime Passage to India, and established their sway over a great extent of shores. After the discovery and early trade with India, the next Object is its History. This necessarily commences with the Mohammedan invasion, the remotest period concerning Which authentic records exist. A comprehensive view is taken of the Revolutions of the Patan and Mogul Dynasties, the most splendid in the East, and the story of which is diversified with striking vicissitudes of rise and fall. This is the Conquest of India by the British; when a few merchants, with a handful of troops, and struggling against European rivalry, subverted all the states which had sprung from the ruins of the Mogul empire, and became arbiters of the destiny of upwards of One Hundred Millions of human beings placed at the opposite extremity of the globe. Volume 3 consists of the following topics, namly, The Quadrupeds of India, The Birds of India, The Reptiles and Fishes of India, The shells and Insects of India, Progress of Indian BotanyGeneral Description of the Vegetation, Some Account of a Few of the More Remarkable Indian Plants, in which the Species are Arranged According to the Natural Families to which they belong, Climate, Hydrography, Geology and Mineralogy, Constitutions best Suited to IndiaPreservation of Health on Board of ship and after ArrivalManagement after return to Europe, Spasmodic Cholera, Hindoo Astronomy, Hindoo Mathematics, Colonel Lambton's Surveys, Present State of Navigation between England and the East Indies, with Instructions for the Guidance of Passengers, Proposed Steam Communication between England and the East Indies by the Red Sea. About the Author -: Hugh Murray FRSE FRGS (17791846) was a Scottish geographer and author. He is often referred to as Hew Murray. He was the younger son of Rev Matthew Murray FRSE (17351791), minister of North Berwick. Murray entered the Edinburgh excise office as a clerk. On 22 January 1816 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Rev Thomas Brown, John Leslie and John Playfair. At this time he was living at 24 Stockbridge, Edinburgh. He was for a time editor of the Scots Magazine, and was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. His connection with Archibald Constable's Edinburgh Gazetteer caused him to figure in the Tory squib, written by James Hogg and others, called Translation from an Ancient Chaldee MS., which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine for October 1817. Murray died after a short illness. Wilson, James, 1795-1856, Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866, Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854, Ainslie, Whitelaw, Sir 1767-1837, Rhind, William, fl 1833-1867, Wallace, William, 1768-1843, Dalrymple, Clarence. The Title 'Historical and Descriptive Account of British India: From the Most Remote Period to the Present Time written/authored/edited by Hugh Murray, James Wilson, William Rhind, R.K. Greville', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121260671 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 476 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol: Volume 3rd Volume 3rd 476. N° de réf. du vendeur PB1111005848006
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