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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 July 2014
    28 February 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139507257
    9781108055949
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139507257
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    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.78kg, 620 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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    A key figure in the history of Benares (Varanasi), James Prinsep (1799–1840) was instrumental in expanding Western knowledge of Indian civilisation. After briefly studying under Pugin, he became an assay master in Calcutta in 1819, and soon moved to Benares. His talents were many, and within a few years he had completed a detailed map of the city, designed a new mint, engineered a system to improve sanitation and begun studying the inscriptions and coins that helped him to decipher two ancient scripts and to establish the dates of Indian dynasties. Collected in 1858 and edited by the numismatist Edward Thomas (1813–86), these essays are generously illustrated, often in Prinsep's hand, and display the enormous breadth of his knowledge. Volume 2 includes essays on coins and philology, with the extensive tables and lists of historical weights and measures, and explanations of Indian chronology.

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