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An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India - And the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope (Paperback)
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An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India - And the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
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William Robertson (1721 93), Principal of the University of
Edinburgh and historiographer to His Majesty for Scotland,
published this work in 1791. Already famous for a History of
Scotland, which went into many editions, and a History of America,
Robertson aimed to synthesise all earlier western accounts of the
subcontinent from classical times to the sixteenth century.
Beginning with a consideration of the practical difficulties facing
explorers from Europe and Africa who headed east, Robertson
discusses the (legendary) Pharaoh Sesostris of Egypt, Alexander the
Great, and Roman military incursions into, and trade with, India,
before turning to the Portuguese, Spanish, French and English
explorers of the early modern period, furnishing his account with
copious source notes. A long appendix then describes 'the genius,
the manners, and institutions of the people of India, as far as
they can be traced from the earliest ages to which our knowledge of
them extends'.
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