A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel and also of the Isle of Ceylon
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A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel and also of the Isle of Ceylon
Asian Educational Services, 1996
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A description of the East India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel and also of the Isle of Ceylon with their adjacent kingdoms & provinces
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Translated from the high-Dutch printed at Amsterdam, 1672."
Originally published: London : Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1703
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Francois Bernier was a French doctor who, with a desires to see the world, travelled to, and then travelled in India from 1656-1669. This fascinating work written in the form of a series of letters to people back home offers eye witness accounts of the politics and intrigues in the Mugal court just before the capture of the Mugal throne by Aurangzeb. Many incident are described in detail including the war for the throne between the 4 sons of shahjanan. It recounts the splendour of the Mugal court, its courtiers, the occupation of the people of the Mugal empire.Being a doctor he was one of the rare males to be admitted into the zenna (womens quarters)of aurangezeb. Bernier travelled all over the Mugal empire including travelling with the court of Aurangzeb to Kashmir. He gives a vivid description of the cities he visited esp Delhi and Agra and Lahore and details the daily life of the people with amusing anecdotes. It is a revised and enlarged edition based upon Irving Brock's translated by Archibald Constable.
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