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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 Botany—General 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 India—Preservation of Health on Board of ship and after Arrival—Management 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.
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ISBN : 9788121260718
Pages : 476
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