India - Social life and customs
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Propagation of the Gospel in the east being a collection of letters from the Protestant missionaries, and other worthy persons in the East-Indies, &c. relating to the mission; the means of promoting it; and the Success it hath pleased God to give to the Endeavours used hitherto, for Propagating True Christianity among the Heathen in those Parts, but chiefly on the coast of Coromandel. With a map of the East-Indies Part III. Published by the Direction of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, 1683-1719.Date: 1718
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The European in India, or, Anglo-Indian's vade-mecum : a handbook of useful and practical information for those proceeding to or residing in the East Indies, relating to outfits, routes, time for departure, Indian climate and seasons, housekeeping, servants, etc., etc. : also an account of Anglo-Indian social customs and native character / by Edmund C.P. Hull ; to which is added a Medical guide for Anglo-Indians, being a compendium of advice to Europeans in India ... / by R.S. Mair.
Mair R. S.Date: 1871
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Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
Kipling John Lockwood, 1837-1911.Date: 1891- E-journals
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An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy--the laws and judicial proceedings--the arts--the sciences--and religious institutions, of the Indians. By William Robertson, D.D. R.F.S. Edin. Principal of the University, and historiographer to His Majesty for Scotland.
Robertson, William, 1721-1793.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- E-books
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Genuine memoirs of Asiaticus , in a series of letters to a friend, during five years residence in different parts of India, Three of which were spent in the Service of the Nabob of Arcot interspersed with anecdotes of several well-known Characters, and containing an Impartial account of the Confinement and Death of Lord Pigot, and of The Share the Nabob of Arcot had in that Memorable Transaction. By Philip Dormer Stanhope, ... Late of the First Regiment of ... Guards.
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, b. 1752.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]