Hindu manners, customs and ceremonies / by the Abbe J.A. Dubois ; translated from the author's later French ms. and edited with notes, corrections, and biography by Henry K. Beauchamp.

  • Dubois, J. A. (Jean Antoine), 1765-1848. Moeurs, institutions et cérémonies des peuples de l'Inde. English
Date:
1906
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Credit: Hindu manners, customs and ceremonies / by the Abbe J.A. Dubois ; translated from the author's later French ms. and edited with notes, corrections, and biography by Henry K. Beauchamp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SOME OPINIONS OP THE PRESS k By rescuing from obscurity the final results of Abbé Dubois’s thirty years of observation and research, Mr. Beauchamp will place the life-work of that great missionary in its true form before the world. He also makes a considerable addition to our knowledge of Southern India on the eve of British rule.’—The Times. ‘Mr. Beauchamp has not only rescued from oblivion the finished Madras MS., but he has performed the task of translator and editor with fidelity and skill. His footnotes are exactly what they should be, neither adding to nor taking from the text, but explaining terms which might otherwise puzzle the English reader, and stating the subsequent legislative action of the British Government in regard to the customs or practices described by Dubois.5—The Pall Mall Gazette. ‘ While in some degrees this is a new work, it may be best regarded as an authoritative edition of a book that has become almost a standard authority on Deccan manners and customs at the beginning of this [the nineteenth] century.’—The Athenaeum. ‘Mr. Beauchamp’s work is admirably done.’—The Spectator. ‘Mr. Beauchamp has earned the gratitude of all for his research and the eminently able manner in which he has translated and edited this work, so as to make it at last worthy of its truly remarkable author.’— The English Historical Review. ‘ With all its extraordinary fullness of detail his book is as interesting as it is instructive, and few who have once taken it up wall fail to read to the conclusion.’—The Imperial Institute Journal. ‘ A work of unusual importance and standard value. It is cheap at any price.’—The Asiatic Quarterly Review. • ‘Mr. Beauchamp has done good service to the reading public and to the reputation of the author by now publishing ... a verbatim transla¬ tion of Dubois’s great work in its revised form, elucidated by many excellent notes suggested by the events of the last seventy years, and by the researches of later writers, who have devoted their attention to the study of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of India.’— The Times of India, <- ‘ This admirable translation of the Abbé Dubois’s remarkable work reflects the highest credit on the sympathetic editor and annotator.’— The Bombay Gazette.