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    Book/Printed Material
    Journal of a march from Delhi to Peshâwur and from thence to Câbul, Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshâwur and from Thence to Câbul is a firsthand account by a British officer, Lieutenant William Barr, of an operation led by Lieutenant Colonel Claude Martine Wade during the first year of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). The war began when the main Anglo-Indian force, the Army of the Indus, advanced toward Kabul through the Bolan Pass…

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    Jammu & Kashmir Railway, proposed western routes, report
    Jammu and Kashmir Railway     Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: De Bourbel, Raoul
    • Date: 1902

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    Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : This work by William Watts (active 1737-58) is an account of the Battle of Plassey, which took place on June 23, 1757, near the village of Pâlāshir, some 150 kilometers north of Calcutta (present-day Kolkata). In this decisive encounter, the forces of the British East India Company, under Robert Clive, defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The British victory and…
    • Contributor: Watts, William - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Campbell, John
    • Date: 1760

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Almanac for Hindu year 1871-1872] Title devised by cataloger. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1871
    • Resource: PDF - 2

  • Book/Printed Material
    Indrajāla kalā = Indarjāl kalān
    Indrajālakalā | Indarjāl kalān     In Hindi.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1894
    • Resource: Digitized - PDF - 226

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    Vira sadhana : a theory and practice of Veda = Tāntrik-Saṃghasya sarvadesīyam patrem
    Tāntrik-Saṃghasya sarvadesīyam patrem     Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Bernard, Pierre Arnold
    • Date: 1919

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    Bhāgavatapurāṇa Palm-leaf manuscript from Orissa; illustrations on every page; wooden covers highlighted in red with single threaded hole in middle; encased in box (10 x 49 x 29 cm). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit (in Oriya script). digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 17??
    • Resource: PDF - 54

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Śrīmadbhāgavatamahāpurāṇaṃ] Wrapped in cloth; encased in box (11 x 40 x 18 cm). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1884
    • Resource: PDF - 47

  • Book/Printed Material
    Atha Nāradīyamahāpurāṇaṃ prārabhyate Hindu mythological text, ascribed to the ṛṣi Nārada and is one of the eighteen major purāṇas according to the Matsyapurāṇa.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1923
    • Resource: PDF - 728

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    Atha Śrīmadvārāhamahāpurāṇaṃ prārabhyate
    Śrīmadvārāha mahāpurāṇaṃ prārabhyate | Śrīvārāhapurāṇa     Hindu mythological text.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1923
    • Resource: PDF - 508

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Om he āryajanaho! Gorakshaṇa karo, yā peṭakā rakshaṇa karo, kyoṅki (Gāvaḥ pratiṣṭhā bhūtānām) Call for protection of Cows.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1890
    • Resource: PDF
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Athapustakapūjaprārambhaḥ On book worship in Hinduism.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 18??
    • Resource: PDF - 7

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    Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism Printed in Great Britain. Color plates have guard sheets with descriptive text and are numbered I-VIII. Black and white plates are lettered A-HH. Includes "Bibliography of works consulted by the author" (pages 347-349) and index. Also available in digital form.
    • Contributor: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish) - Tagore, Abanindranath - Fredric Wertham Collection (Library of Congress) - Bose, Nandalal
    • Date: 1916

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Baidha saphu] Collections of stotra used in getting rid of planetory influences.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1722
    • Resource: PDF - 39

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    The story of a pilgrimage of Hijaz Sultan Jahan Begum (1858-1930), also known as Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan Begum, was the last of four women nawabs (governors) who ruled the princely state of Bhopal during the British Raj. First established in central India in 1724, Bhopal was an independent state before it became a British protectorate in 1818. The state merged with independent India in 1949 and is now part of Madhya…
    • Contributor: Sultan Jahan Begam - Sultan, Jahan Begam
    • Date: 1909
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 432

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Gandhara scroll "The ancient kingdom of Gandhara (today's Afghanistan and Pakistan) is the source of the oldest Buddhist manuscripts in the world, as well as the oldest manuscripts from South Asia in existence. Acquired in 2003, the Library's Gandhara scroll roughly dates between the first century BCE and first century CE. Its language is Gandhari, a derivative of Sanskrit, and the script is called Kharoshthi. Scholars…

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    Monograph on Buddha Sakyamuni's birth-place in the Nepalese tarai In the 1870s, the Archaeological Survey of India undertook a series of expeditions to increase understanding of the early history of India and to further the preservation of important monuments and ruins. In 1896 German archaeologist Alois Anton Führer (1853-1930) received permission from the government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh and the government of India to carry out an expedition to Nepal. Führer…

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    Our scientific frontier The "scientific frontier" is a term used by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) of Great Britain in 1878 to denote a border between British India (in present-day Pakistan) and Afghanistan, which could be occupied and defended according to the requirements of the science of military strategy, as opposed to the existing frontier, which had been formed by a haphazard pattern of British expansion…
    • Contributor: Andrew, W. P. (William Patrick)
    • Date: 1880
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 192

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    The Russo-Afghan question and the invasion of India, George Bruce Malleson was a British army officer and military historian who had served in India and who wrote prolifically on the history of India and Afghanistan. One of his major works was History of Afghanistan from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878, a political and military history of Afghanistan that was published in London in 1879, shortly after…
    • Contributor: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce)
    • Date: 1885
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 204

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    Observations on the Eastern question in its bearings upon the position and interests of the British empire in the East

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    Russia, India and the Persian Gulf (published as an article in the Asiatic quarterly review for April, 1903)
    • Contributor: Rees, J[Ohn] D[Avid] - Rees, J. D. (John David)
    • Date: 1903
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 46

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    Some considerations on the political state of the intermediate countries between Persia and India, Some Considerations on the Political State of the Intermediate Countries Between Persia and India is a short tract by Edward Hamilton Stirling (1797-1873), a British explorer and East India Company civil servant. It is based on an 1828 overland journey that Stirling took from Persia via present-day northern Afghanistan and back to India. Stirling joined the East India Company in 1816 and rose to…
    • Contributor: Stirling, Edward - Stirling, Edward Hamilton
    • Date: 1835
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 90

  • Periodical
    Hindostāna = Hindostan
    Hindostan     Irregular Paracā na. 1 (5 Mārca 1915)- Title from caption. Some issues published in combined form. No more published. In Hindi. Issued in several language editions. Latest issue consulted: Paracā na. 84 (21 Agasta 1918). SERBIB/SERLOC merged record
    • Date: 1915
  • Periodical
    Hindūstān = Hindostan
    Hindostan     Irregular Parcah nambar 1 (5 Mārc 1915)- Title from caption. Some issues published in combined form. No more published. In Urdu. Issued in several language editions. Latest issue consulted: Parcah nambar 84 (21 Agast 1918). SERBIB/SERLOC merged record
    • Date: 1915
  • Book/Printed Material
    Russian projects against India from the czar Peter to General Skobeleff, Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828-1906) was a British author and journalist who over a long career worked in a wide range of genres, producing dramatic pieces, fiction, and serious journalism. In 1856 he went to Russia as correspondent of the Illustrated Times to cover the coronation of Tsar Alexander II. He remained in Moscow to study the language and married the daughter of a Scottish…
    • Contributor: Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland)
    • Date: 1885
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 311