Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History

This detailed study of the history of Bengal was published in 1813 by the orientalist Charles Stewart (1764-1837). The work covers the period from the early Islamic conquests in the ninth century to the Battle of Plassey in 1757, marking the beginning of British rule.

Matching modern astronomical tables to data from canonical Hindu texts like the Vedas and the Ramayana, this 1825 study strives to establish the scientific facts behind such mythological events as the birth of Rama, the war of the gods and giants, and the marriages of the moon.

Akbar the Great (1542-1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was translated from the original Persian by Francis Gladwin (1744/5-1812) and appeared in this two-volume edition in 1800. Volume 2 focuses on religion, philosophy and science.

The Christian missionary Joseph Wolff (1795-1862) published in 1845 this account of his perilous journey to the Emirate of Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan) to investigate the disappearance of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly. Wolff later discovered that the British officers had been executed.

Sir Clements R. Markham, the doyen of historical geography in the late nineteenth century, published this comprehensive work on surveys of India in 1871. Beginning with the earliest European mapping of the Indian Ocean, Markham also covers the geological, archaeological and astronomical surveys of the subcontinent in the nineteenth century.