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Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palaeographic - To Which are Added Tables, Illustrative of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, etc. (Paperback)
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Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palaeographic - To Which are Added Tables, Illustrative of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, etc. (Paperback)
Series: Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palaeographic 2 Volume Set, Volume 2
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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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