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Published in 1874, this groundbreaking monograph on the palaeography of southern India gained great scholarly acclaim. Arthur Coke Burnell (1840-82) served in the Indian Civil Service and as a judge, also building up a large collection of original or copied Sanskrit manuscripts. Originally intended as an introduction to his vast and pioneering Classified Index to the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Palace at Tanjore (1880), this work won Burnell an honorary doctorate at the University of Strasbourg. Replete with documentary evidence, it contains copies and explanations of numerous texts, the decipherment of which threw new light upon an obscure chapter in the history of writing, offering new theories for dating the introduction of writing into India and the origin of southern Indian alphabets and numerals. Although Burnell's work has since been built on and sometimes superseded, this is still a much-cited resource in South Asian palaeography and epigraphy.
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This volume is concerned with words and their origins, specifically in the history of colonial India, and in specialist fields such as the flora, fauna, diet and customs and practices of the sub-continent.
English Language --- Reference --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Hobson-jobson --- English language --- Etymology. --- Foreign words and phrases --- India --- Languages
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English language --- Foreign words and phrases --- Indic. --- Dialects --- Dictionaries. --- India --- Languages --- Influence on English
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English language --- Indic languages --- India
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The publications of the Hakluyt Society made available edited early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of the East Indian travels of John Huyghen van Linschoten, originally published in the Netherlands in 1596 and translated into English in 1598, was published by the society in 1885 using an edited version of the early translation, supplemented with explanatory notes. It provides a rich source of information about Portuguese trade with the East Indies, as well as descriptions of the fauna, flora and indigenous peoples of the regions he visited, from the Azores and St Helena to Java and Sumatra.
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, --- Travel --- East Indies --- East Asia --- Description and travel --- Linscot, Jean Hugues de, --- Van Linschoten, Jan Huygen, --- Hugonius, Joannes, --- Hugonius, Ioannes, --- Linschot, Iean Hugues de, --- Linschoten, Iohn Hvighen van, --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Indies, East
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