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History of the Indian Archipelago - Containing an Account of the Manners, Art, Languages, Religions, Institutions, and Commerce of its Inhabitants (Paperback)
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History of the Indian Archipelago - Containing an Account of the Manners, Art, Languages, Religions, Institutions, and Commerce of its Inhabitants (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 1
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Trained as a doctor, John Crawfurd (1783 1868) went on to have a
distinguished career in colonial administration with the East India
Company. He held senior posts in Java from 1811 to 1816, including
that of resident at the court of Yogyakarta. A talented linguist
and ethnologist, Crawfurd acquired a sound knowledge of ancient
Kawi and contemporary Javanese. Upon his return to Britain in 1817,
he became a fellow of the Royal Society and published this
three-volume work on the Indonesian islands, principally Java, to
great acclaim. Following further service abroad, he published
accounts of his various missions in south-east Asia and an
encyclopaedic sequel to the present work (all of which are reissued
in the Cambridge Library Collection). Volume 1 examines the
character and manners of the islanders as well as their arts,
sciences, medicine, and agricultural techniques.
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