Travels in India
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Travels in India
（Cambridge library collection, . Travel and exploration）
Cambridge University Press, 2012
- v. 1 : pbk
- Other Title
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Les six voyages de Jean Bapt. Tavernier, ecuyer baron d'Aubonne, en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes, pendant l'espace de quarante ans, & par toutes les routes que l'on peut tenir : accompagnez d'observations particulieres sur la qualité, la religion, le gouvernement, les coûtumes, & le commerce de chaque pays, avec les figures, le poids, & la valeur des monnoyes qui y ont cours
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"This edition first published 1889. This digitally printed version 2012"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxix]-xlvi)
"Translated from the original french edition of 1676 with a biographical sketch of the author, notes, appendices, etc." --On titlepage of 1889
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1676, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89), French merchant, traveller and pioneer of trade with India, published an account of his journey through India. This two-volume translation, published in 1889 by Irish geologist Valentine Ball (1843-94), includes a biographical sketch of the author, notes and appendices. Tavernier begins his tale with the declaration that 'I came into this world to travel.' As well as most of Europe, he visited large areas of Turkey, Persia and India (where he acquired the great gem, now known as the Hope Diamond, which he sold to Louis XIV), and sailed to Java. In Volume 1, Tavernier sets out from Isfahan to Agra and Delhi; he then supplies a historical and political description of the empire of Shah Jahan and his successors. An appendix provides details about the values of coins, weights and measures mentioned by Tavernier in the original work.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction - life of J. B. Tavernier
- Bibliography
- Title page of original edition
- Dedication to the King
- Design of the author
- Table of the books and chapters
- 'Avis' to the reader
- Travels in India: Book I. Concerning Routes Which One May Take to Go from Ispahan to Agra, and from Agra to Delhi and Jahanarad, Where the Court of the Great Mogul Is at Present
- as Also to the Court of the King of Golconda and to that of the King of Bijapur, and to Several Other Places in India: 1. Route from Ispahan to Agra by (way of) Gombroon (Bandar Abbas), where particular mention is made of the navigation from Hormuz to Surat
- 2. Concerning the customs, the money, the exchange, the weights, and the measures of India
- 3. Concerning carriages and the manner of travelling in India
- 4. Route from Surat to Agra by Burhanpur and Sironj
- 5. Route from Surat to Agra by Ahmadabad
- 6. Route from Ispahan to Agra by Kandahar
- 7. Sequence of the same route from Delhi up to Agra
- 8. Route from Agra to Patna and Dacca, towns of the Province of Bengal
- and the quarrel which the author had with Shaista Khan, uncle of the King
- 9. Route from Surat to Golconda
- 10. Of the Kingdom of Golconda, and the wars which it has carried on during the last few years
- 11. Route from Golconda to Masulipatam
- 12. Route from Surat to Goa, and from Goa to Golconda by Bijapur
- 13. Remarks upon the present condition of the town of Goa
- 14. Concerning what the author did during his sojourn at Goa on his last journey in 1648
- 15. History of Father Ephraim, Capuchin, and how he was cast into the Inquisition at Goa
- 16. Route from Goa to Masulipatam by Cochin, described in the history of the capture of that town by the Dutch
- 17. Route by sea from Hormuz to Masulipatam
- 18. Route from Masulipatam to Gandikot, a town and fortress in the Province of Carnatic, and the author's transactions with Mir Jumla, who commanded the army of the King of Golconda
- in which also there is a full description of elephants
- 19. Route from Gandikot to Golconda
- 20. Return from Surat to Hormuz, and how the author found himself engaged in a very rough and dangerous naval combat, from which he escaped without accident
- Book II. Historical and Political Description of the Empire of the Great Mogul: 1. Account of the last wars in Hindustan, in which is set forth the present condition of the Empire and the Court of the Great Mogul
- 2. Concerning the sickness and supposed death of Shah Jahan, King of India, and the rebellion of the Princes, his sons
- 3. Concerning Shah Jahan's prison, and how he was punished by Aurangzer, his third son, for the injustice he had done to Prince Bolaki his nephew, grandson of Jahangir, to whom, since he was the son of the firstborn, the Empire of the Moguls belonged
- 4. Concerning the flight of Dara Shah to the Kingdoms of Sind and Gujarat
- his second battle with Aurangzeb
- his capture and death
- 5. How Aurangzer seated himself upon the throne and had himself declared King
- and concerning the flight of Sultan Shuja
- 6. Concerning the prison of Sultan Muhammad, son of Aurangzer, and of Sultan Suliman Sheko, eldest son of Dara Shah
- 7. Concerning the beginning of Aurangzeb's reign, and the death of Shah Jahan, his father
- 8. Concerning the preparations which are made for the festival of the Great Mogul, when he is solemnly weighed every year
- of the splendour of his thrones and the magnificence of his Court
- 9. Concerning other details of the Great Mogul's Court
- 10. The Great Mogul orders all his jewels to be shown to the author
- 11. Terms of the passport which the Nawab Shaista Khan sent to the author, with some letters which he wrote to him and the replies to them, in which the style of these countries manifests itself
- Appendix.
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