Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382149702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Selections from the Records of the Government of the Punjab and its Dependencies
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382149702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382149702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
SELECTIONS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INIDA
Author: CALCUTTA
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Records of the Geological Survey of India
Author: Geological Survey of India
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Includes the Annual report of the Geological Survey of India, 1867-
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Includes the Annual report of the Geological Survey of India, 1867-
A Hand-book to the Records of the Government of India in the Imperial Record Department
Author: India. Imperial Record Department
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Supplement to thr Alphabetical Catalogue of the Liobrary of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: John Murray
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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The Pundits
Author: Derek Waller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.
Final Report on the Settlement of Land Revenue in the Delhi District, Carried on 1872-77, by Oswald Wood, and Completed 1878-80, by R. Maconachie
Author: Oswald Wood
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Catalogue of the Scientific Serial Publications in the Principal Libraries of Calcutta
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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