Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus : illustrated with plates and a map, with a Sketch of the history of Cutch and an appendix / by James Burnes.

  • James Burnes
Date:
1839
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Credit: Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus : illustrated with plates and a map, with a Sketch of the history of Cutch and an appendix / by James Burnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r P H E F A C E. The following narrative, which consists simply of an official report on a country till of late years * little known, was originally printed, at the public expense, by the Government in India, and first issued from the press at Bombay in 1830. Du- ring the following year it was republished in England, and attracted a degree of consideration which had never been anticipated, having been not only warmly praised in many of the foreign and British periodicals, but even partly incorpo- rated into some of the great standard works of the day. The second edition has long been ex- hausted ; and, considering the interest that has lately been directed to the regions bordering on the Indus, it is believed that a third will not prove unacceptable to the public. When the author indulged in the speculations which will be found in this volume, he little fore- saw that his visit to Sinde would be followed by such a train of stirring events, in reference to the Indus, as the course of ten years has developed. .In 1831, the river was successfully navigated, • from the Ocean to Lahore, by his Brother;— during 1832-3 and 4, negotiations were in pro- gress, and treaties entered into with the Ameers,
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