Böcker i Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History-serien

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.

By the time Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sleeman (1788-1856) published this two-volume work in 1844, he had been living in India for more than thirty years. Volume 1 draws from his extensive travels and discusses aspects of Indian life.