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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"Translated from the high-Dutch printed at Amsterdam, 1672."
Originally published: London : Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1703
Includes index
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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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