Imperial Conversations

Imperial Conversations
Author: Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai
Publisher: Yoda Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9788190363426

The eighteenth century was a time of profound upheaval when economic and political control of southern India passed from native kings to the East India Company. Hand-in-hand with the resultant conflicts and skirmishes, a process of cultural sharing was gaining ground which went on to manifest itself in the form of a flourishing imperial cultural in the nineteenth century.

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 178308071X

Edward FitzGerald's ‘Rubáiyát’, loosely based on verses attributed to the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayyám, has become one of the most widely known poems in the world, republished virtually every year from 1879 to the present day, and translated into over eighty different languages. And yet it has been largely ignored or at best patronized by the academic establishment. This volume sets out to explore the reasons for both the popularity and the neglect.

Early Writings on India

Early Writings on India
Author: H.K. Kaul
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351867172

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1178
Release: 1864
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Publisher and Bookseller

Publisher and Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1144
Release: 1864
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.