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Item Shivaji in Surat(The London Gazette, 1672) The London GazetteItem The History of the Church of Malabar, from the time of its being first discover'd by the Portuguezes in the year 1501 : giving an account of the persecutions and violent methods of the Roman prelates, to reduce them to the subjection of the Church of Rome : together with the Synod of Diamper, celebrated in the year of Our Lord 1599 : with some remarks upon the faith and doctrine of the Christians of St. Thomas in the Indies, agreeing with the Church of England, in opposition to that of Rome. Done out of Portugueze into English(Sam Smith, and Benj, Walford, London, 1694) Geddes, MichaelItem A compendious vocabulary, English and Persian - Including all the Oriental simples in the materia medica, employed in modern practice: with tables subjoined of the successions of the Khaliffs. And of the kings of Persia and Hindustan. Compiled for the use of Honourable East India Company(Malda, Bengal, 1780) Gladwin, FrancisItem ULFAZ UDWIYEH, or the materia medica, in the Arabic, Persian, and Hindevy languages(The Chronicle Press, Calcutta, 1793) Shirazy, Noureddeen Mohammad AbdullahItem Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan(Mr.Bowyer, London, 1794) Home, RobertBorn in Hull in the United Kingdom as the son of an eminent army surgeon from Greenlaw in Berwickshire, Home joined Royal Academy Schools in 1769. He went to Rome in 1773 for further training in painting under Angelica Kauffman and remained in Italy until 1777. From 1783 to 1789 he worked in Dublin and London before leaving for India in 1790. On 5 February 1791, Home was allowed to follow Lord Cornwallis' army in the Third Anglo-Mysore War as it moved towards Bangalore.Item Travels in India During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783.(J. Edwards, London , 1794) Hodges, WilliamItem Historical sketches of the south of India, in an attempt to trace the HISTORY OF MYSOOR, from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799 : Volume 1(Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London, 1810) Wilks, Lieut. Col. MarkColonel Mark Wilks FRS (1759–1831) was a Manx soldier, historian and East India Company administrator who worked in southern India principally in the princely state of Mysore. He was the acting Resident at the Wodeyar Court.Item Historical sketches of the south of India, in an attempt to trace the HISTORY OF MYSOOR, from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799 : Volume 3(Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London, 1817) Wilks, Lieut. Col. MarkColonel Mark Wilks FRS (1759–1831) was a Manx soldier, historian and East India Company administrator who worked in southern India principally in the princely state of Mysore. He was the acting Resident at the Wodeyar Court.Item Historical sketches of the south of India, in an attempt to trace the HISTORY OF MYSOOR, from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799 : Volume 2(Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London, 1817) Wilks, Lieut. Col. MarkColonel Mark Wilks FRS (1759–1831) was a Manx soldier, historian and East India Company administrator who worked in southern India principally in the princely state of Mysore. He was the acting Resident at the Wodeyar Court.Item A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot(R. Ackermann, London, 1824) Forrest, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles RamusLieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest (1750-1827) was an amateur artist who also served in the army from 1802-1827. While in India he served with the 3rd East Kent Regiment from 1802-14. By the time he produced his collection of images the conventions of the Indian picturesque had been codified. Forrest was enamored of India and its romantic landscapes and hoped that his work would convey a sense of his excitement and enthusiasm to other Britishers. He modeled his landscapes on the visual program of the Indian picturesque that was established by Hodges and the Daniells. Picturesque artists were required to travel and make sketches of sites of interest and then organize the painting later. Indeed Forrest emphasizes how he always drew on the spot when traveling around India in his work. These artists were also supposed to present an accurate representation of place; however, the images were ultimately aesthetic constructions designed with a specific audience in mind. Typical images of the Indian picturesque represent palaces, forts, temples, and village scenes in various stages of ruin with human figures appearing only incidentally. These ruins were valuable and beautiful in a Romantic context, but gradually evolved into visual metaphors for the country itself so that India, while picturesque, was also seen as a land in decline.Item Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir(J. Murray, London, 1829) Jahangir"....As at the very instant that I seated myself on the throne the sun rose from the horizon, I accepted this as the omen of victory, and as indicating a reign of unvarying prosperity. Hence I assumed the titles of Jahangueir Padshah, and Jahangueir Shah : the world-subduing emperor ; the world-subduing king. I ordained that the following legend should be stamped on the coinage of the empire : " Stricken at Agrah by that Khossrou, the safeguard of the world ; the sovereign splendour of the faith, Jahangueir, son of the imperial Akbar."Item Majma-ul-Bahrain or The Mingling of the two Oceans(Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta , 1829) Shikuh, Prince Muhammad DaraItem QANOON-E-ISLAM or the Customs of the Moosulmans of India : compromising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth till the hour of death.(Parbury, Allen & Co., London, 1832) Shurreef, JaffurItem The Tezkereh al Vakiat or Private Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Humayun(Oriental Translation Fund, London, 1832) JouherNasir-ud-Din Muḥammad; 6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), better known by his regnal name, Humayun, was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, who ruled over territory in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India, and Bangladesh from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to 1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early but regained it with the aid of the Safavid dynasty of Persia, with additional territory. At the time of his death in 1556, the Mughal Empire spanned almost one million square kilometres.Item Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús(John William Parker, London, 1834) Raz, RamIndian civilisation is indeed a great one on account of the magnificence, range and the variety of its architectural legacy. There were great technical treatises in Sanskrit called the Shilpa Shastras which laid down the ground rules to be followed in the fields of architecture and sculpture.Item The 'actual' Macaulay's Minute on Education, February 2, 1835(Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, 1835) Macaulay, T. B.Item DARA SHUKOH(M.C. Sarkar & Sons, Calcutta, 1835) Qanungo, Kalika RanjanBy this time in August 1659, everyone in the imperial court knew that Dara Shukoh would soon find himself minus his head. Emperor Shahjahan’s eldest and favourite son, beloved of mystics and poets, had lost the war of succession, outsmarted by the shrewder Aurangzeb. Plundered by his own soldiers, abandoned by old retainers, his wife dead (possibly by suicide), and betrayed by a man he thought loyal, Dara seemed conscious of his impending doom. He wrote to his royal captor from his place of confinement, promising to spend the rest of his days praying for the new emperor’s welfare. But his pleas were rejected—to the victorious Aurangzeb, hatred for Dara had accumulated over decades, and in the sham “trial" that followed, the elder brother was accused of everything, from perverting imperial judgement to scandalous heresy, till the younger confirmed, self-righteously, the sentence of death.Item An Essay on the antiquity of Hindoo Medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College(W.H.Allen & Co., London, 1837) Royle, John ForbesItem Sketches in Scinde(Henry Graves and Co., London, 1846) Edwards, Lieut. WilliamItem Megasthenis Indica(Sumptibus Pleimesii Biobliopolae, Bonn, 1846) Schwanbeck, F. A.