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A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (Paperback)
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A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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Orientalist and colonial administrator John Crawfurd (1783 1868)
published this work in 1856. He went to Calcutta as an assistant
surgeon in the East India Company, then moved into administration,
accompanying political missions to Java, Bali and Celebes, and
heading missions to Siam, Vietnam and Burma. Retiring to England in
1828, Crawfurd became a Fellow of the Royal Society and President
of the Ethnological Society. Having studied ancient Kawi,
contemporary Javanese and the Malay language, he published
extensively on Asia in his lifetime, including his History of the
Indian Archipelago, a Malay-language dictionary, and accounts of
missions to the courts of Siam, Cochin-China and Ava. This work
focuses primarily on Java, Malay, Siam and the Philippines. A
monumental account of the culture, politics, language and geography
of the region, organised as encyclopedic entries, it remains an
invaluable source of information on the Victorian presentation and
understanding of South-East Asia.
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