Newar accounts: caste and religious texts; vaṃśāvali: history of Nepal and some miscellaneous materials (Persian and Urdu documents mostly translated from Nepali, Newari and Sanskrit)
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Miscellaneous notes relating to revenue (general), revenue from the Tarai (Morang District), 28 major castes and sub-castes of Buddhist and Hindu Newars from Brahmin to Phogin (Kusule?), some street names of Kathmandu, a few names of Persian traders and the Munshi of the British Residency, notes...
Buddhism, Newars: religion and marriage feasts, genealogy of Nepali kings, lists of streets and major gates of Kathmandu, courts of Nepal (Persian and Urdu documents mostly translated from Nepali, Newari, Sanskrit and Tibetan)
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Description of Bodhgaya by Amritananda, description of Dharmadhatumandala (Buddhism), courts (adālats) of the city, description of Kagyur (bKa'-'gyur), Newar wedding banquets, notes on King Brahmadatta (?), notes on Swayambhunath chaitya, Newar religion, name list of streets and gates of Kathman...
Buddhism, legal system, topography (routes), economy (revenue and taxation, agriculture), Buddhist and Hindu manuscript books (Persian and Urdu documents mostly translated from Nepali, Newari, Sanskrit and Tibetan)
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Newar Buddhist monasteries; economy, traditions and customs, description of the Dharmadhatumandala, courts of Nepal: crimes and punishments, agricultural calendar of the Valley, tale of Simraungadh, route to Lhasa by Abdul Rasol and Muktar Beg, route from Nepal (Kathmandu) west to Sabathu, list ...
Buddhism, Hinduism, society and ethnography; Hindu castes and tribes, army, economy; tax, agriculture, salaries, topography (routes), account of Nepal's war with British India and some of the bordering states of India (Persian and Urdu documents mostly
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Description of different sects of Buddhist monks, accounts of sati ceremonies observed in 1826, 1830 and 1845 AD, list of Hindu and Buddhist deities, list of Hindu castes and tribes and various sects of each caste, Buddhism, Buddhist philosophy, abstracts of 19th chapter of the Prajnāpārmitā, tr...
Economy, topography, legal system, history, list of manuscripts (Persian and Urdu documents mostly translated from Nepali, Newari, Sanskrit and Tibetan)
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Some Persian terms, letters related to land revenue and prices of commodities, routes from Kathmandu and distances between various villages, revenue from Saptari and Mahottari (VE 1886), description of Morang district by Jatanlal (March 1842), revenue from five other provinces of the Tarai (1840...
Review of the State of the Dutch East India Possessions under the Government of the Governor-General Herman William Daendels &c &c for the better acquaintance and estimation of that persons arbitrary & violent administration.
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By Nicholas Engelhard, Late First Counsellor & Director-General of Dutch India as also ancient Governor & Director of the North East Coast of Java. . . At Gravenhage and Amsterdam. By the Brothers van Cleef, 1816. pp. i, iii, iv, 1-355. Translated from Overzigt van den Staat der Nederl...
Part 2 of Review of the State of the Dutch East India Possessions under the Government of the Governor-General Herman William Daendels &c &c for the better acquaintance and estimation of that persons arbitrary & violent administration.
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Part 2 continues to the end of the original (except the Table of Errata). By Nicholas Engelhard, Late First Counsellor & Director-General of Dutch India as also ancient Governor & Director of the North East Coast of Java. . . At Gravenhage and Amsterdam. By the Brothers van Cleef, 1816. ...
State of the Netherlands East-india Possessions under the Government of the Governor General Herman William Daendels, Kt., Lieutenant-General, &c.
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From the year 1808 to 1811, by H. W. Daendels. pp. 1-312. Translated from Staat der Nederlandsche Oostindische Bezittingen, onder het Bestuur van den Gouverneur-Generaal Herman Willem Daendels, Ridder, Luitenant-Generaal, &c. in de Jaren 1808-1811, The Hague, 1814. This volume contains a ...
State of the Netherlands East-india Possessions under the Government of the Governor General Herman William Daendels, Kt., Lieutenant-General, &c; Java, or a brief Review of its Value and Trade, relative to Netherland.
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From the year 1808 to 1811. 1, pp. 1-83: Continuation of the preceding volume (Mss Eur Mack (1822) 3) to the end of the printed original, without the three volumes of Bijlagen. This and the preceding were originally numbered 1822. A. 2. In Reply to the Author of the Remarks on the new introduc...
Batavia, 13 March 1698. Voyage made by Jacob Janssen De Roy to Borneo and Atcheen
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In the year 1691, and afterwards drawn up by the Traveller himself, by Order of the Right Honble. William van Outhoorn, Governor-General, and the Honble. Counsellors of Netherlands India . . . . Printed after the Copy received from Batavia. Amsterdam, 1716. pp. 1-441: Translated from the above...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1698-1716
Extent:
1 volume, 441 pages
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