Sketches of social life in IndiaBuckland, C. T. (Charles Thomas)
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Sketches of social life in India
Buckland, C. T. (Charles Thomas)
British -- India -- Social life and customs; India -- Social life and customs
Contains—Memoirs of Lord Grenville, Lord Hawkesbury, Lord Harrowby,
Lord Mulgrave, C. J. Fox, Lord Howick, George Canning, Lord
Bathurst, Lord Wellesley (together with estimate of his Indian
Rule by Col. G. B. Malleson, C.S.I.), Lord Castlereagh, Lord
Dudley, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord Palmerston. Also, Extracts from
Lord Bexley’s Papers, including lithographed letters of Lords
Castlereagh and Canning, which, bearing on important points of
public policy, have never yet been published; together with other
important information culled from private and other sources. With
Ten Portraits, and a View shewing Interior of the old House of
Lords. (Second Edition.) 2 vols. 8vo. 32s. 6d.
Vol. III. 8vo. With Portraits. 18s.
Thornton’s History of India. The History of the British Empire in
India, by Edward Thornton, Esq. Containing a Copious Glossary of
Indian Terms, and a Complete Chronological Index of Events, to aid
the Aspirant for Public Examinations. Third edition. 1 vol. 8vo.
With Map. 12s.
⁂ _The Library Edition of the above in 6 volumes, 8vo., may be had,
price £2 8s._
Thornton’s Gazetteer of India. Compiled chiefly from the records at
the India Office. By EDWARD THORNTON. 1 vol., 8vo., pp. 1015. With
Map. 21s.
⁂ _The chief objects in view in compiling this Gazetteer are_:—
_1st. To fix the relative position of the various cities, towns, and
villages with as much precision as possible, and to exhibit with
the greatest practicable brevity all that is known respecting
them; and_
_2ndly. To note the various countries, provinces, or territorial
divisions, and to describe the physical characteristics of each,
together with their statistical, social, and political
circumstances._
_To these are added minute descriptions of the principal rivers and
chains of mountains; thus presenting to the reader, within a brief
compass, a mass of information which cannot otherwise be obtained,
except from a multiplicity of volumes and manuscript records._
_The Library Edition._ 4 vols., 8vo. Notes, Marginal References, and
Map. £2 16s.
—— Gazetteer of the Punjaub, Affghanistan, &c. Gazetteer of the
Countries adjacent to India, on the northwest, including Scinde,
Affghanistan, Beloochistan, the Punjaub, and the neighbouring
States. By EDWARD THORNTON, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. £1 5s.
Thornton (T.) East India Calculator. By T. THORNTON. 8vo. London,
1823. 10s.
—— History of the Punjaub, And of the Rise, Progress, and Present
Condition of the Sikhs. By T. THORNTON. 2 Vols. Post 8vo. 8s.
Tilley (H. A.) Japan, the Amoor and the Pacific. With notices of
other Places, comprised in a Voyage of Circumnavigation in the
Imperial Russian Corvette _Rynda_, in 1858–1860. By HENRY A.
TILLEY. Eight Illustrations. 8vo. 16s.
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