Personal Observations on Sindh; the Manners and Customs of Its Inhabitants; and Its Productive Capabilities: With a Sketch of Its History, a Narrative of Recent Events, and an Account of the Connection of the British Government with That Country to the Present Period

Edité par Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, London, England, 1843

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Attractive modern brown pebble cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Orange, blue, and white marbled endpapers. 5 1/2" x 9." 401 pages, complete. Thirteen black-and-white illustrations, one black-and-white folding map in front, and a beautiful hand-colored frontispiece, complete. Tipped-in Errata in front. Appendix in back. One additional page of advertisements for other books in back. Pages are very clean and intact but have a small bit of dampstaining in the front limited to the edges of the top margins. Covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. A Near Fine copy. Thomas Postans (1808-1846) was a British military officer who worked for the East India Company. In this autobiographical account, Postans gives his personal observations about the Sindh (Sind) Province of British India and Pakistan. Sind was conquered by the British Empire during the early 1840s. Today, the Sindh Province is located in modern-day Pakistan. The following are a just a few of the subjects as listed under "Contents": "Extent of Sindh," "Inhospitable Appearance of the Country," "Classification of the Inhabitants of Sindh," "Affghans settled in Sindh," "Productive Qualities of Sindh," "Timber of Sindh," "River Indus," "Eastern Course of River," "Length of Voyages by Native Craft," "Interest attached to Ancient History of Sindh," "Kalora and Talpur Dynasties," "Ubdulla Khan Talpur raises the Standard of Sovereignty," "Sindh Durbars," "Sindhian Form of Government," "Importance attached to Sindhian Trade," "First Connection of British with Sindh," "Caubul Campaign of 1838," "News how collection from Indian Durbars, " and "News on the newly created Interest in Sindh.".…

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Personal Observations on Sindh; the Manners and Customs of Its Inhabitants; and Its Productive Capabilities: With a Sketch of Its History, a Narrative of Recent Events, and an Account of the Connection of the British Government with That Country to the Present Period
Auteur
Postans, T. (Thomas Postans)
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Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, London, England
Année de publication
1843
État de l'article
Near Fine
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Hardcover
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1st Edition
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Foreign Lands, Literature, Travels and Voyages

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