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Book/Printed MaterialJournal 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…- Contributor: Barr, William
- Date: 1844
- Resource: PDF, Text - 446
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Book/Printed MaterialJammu & 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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Book/Printed MaterialMemoirs 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…- Contributor: Watts, William - Campbell, John - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- 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
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Book/Printed MaterialIndrajāla 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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Book/Printed MaterialVira 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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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBhāgavatapurāṇa 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…- Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 17??
- Resource: PDF - 54
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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
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Book/Printed MaterialAtha 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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Book/Printed MaterialAtha Śrīmadvārāhamahāpurāṇaṃ prārabhyate
Śrīmadvārāha mahāpurāṇaṃ prārabhyate | Śrīvārāhapurāṇa Hindu mythological text.- Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1923
- Resource: PDF - 508
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialOm 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
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAthapustakapūjaprārambhaḥ On book worship in Hinduism.- Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 18??
- Resource: PDF - 7
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Book/Printed MaterialBuddha 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…- Contributor: Bose, Nandalal - Fredric Wertham Collection (Library of Congress) - Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish) - Tagore, Abanindranath
- 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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Book/Printed MaterialThe 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…- Contributor: Sultan, Jahan Begam - Sultan Jahan Begam
- Date: 1909
- Resource: PDF, Text - 432
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGandhara 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…- Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Resource: Digitized scroll: - Image - 4
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Book/Printed MaterialMonograph 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.…- Contributor: Führer, Alois Anton
- Date: 1897
- Resource: PDF, Text - 101
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Book/Printed MaterialOur 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…- Contributor: Andrew, W. P. (William Patrick)
- Date: 1880
- Resource: PDF, Text - 192
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Book/Printed MaterialThe 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…- Contributor: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce)
- Date: 1885
- Resource: PDF, Text - 204
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Book/Printed MaterialObservations on the Eastern question in its bearings upon the position and interests of the British …- Date: 1870
- Resource: PDF, Text - 12
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Book/Printed MaterialRussia, India and the Persian Gulf (published as an article in the Asiatic quarterly review for …- Contributor: Rees, J. D. (John David) - Rees, J[Ohn] D[Avid]
- Date: 1903
- Resource: PDF, Text - 46
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Book/Printed MaterialSome 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.…- Contributor: Stirling, Edward - Stirling, Edward Hamilton
- Date: 1835
- Resource: PDF, Text - 90
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PeriodicalHindostāna = 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…- Date: 1915
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PeriodicalHindūstān = 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…- Date: 1915
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Book/Printed MaterialRussian 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…- Contributor: Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland)
- Date: 1885
- Resource: PDF, Text - 311
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Russian advance towards India The Russian Advance towards India is based on a series of interviews conducted by English author Charles Thomas Marvin in Saint Petersburg in March 1882, a year after the Russian conquest of…- Contributor: Marvin, Charles
- Date: 1882
- Resource: PDF, Text - 400
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Book/Printed MaterialEpistola potentissimi ac inuictissimi Emanuelis Regis Portugaliae & Algarbiorium &c. de victoriis habitis in India & …
Epistola potentissimi ac invictissimi Emanuelis Regis Portugaliae & Algarbiorium &c. de victoriis habitis in India & Malacha Imprint from colophon. Dated at end: Dat. in Vrbe nostra Olisipone 8. idus Iunias anno D[omi]ni M.D.XIII. Signatures: A⁶. Arms of Manuel I on t.p. Capital space with printed guide letter. LC…- Contributor: Manuel I - Leo X - Mazochius, Jacobus
- Date: 1513
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Book/Printed MaterialGesta proxime p[er] Portugalen[ses] in India, Ethiopia [et] alijs orie[n]talibus terris : a serenissimo Emanuele Portugalie …
Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, et aliis orientalibus terris According to Grenville, this letter is a reprint of: Epistola serenissimi regis Portugalie ad Julium papam secundum ... 1507. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: A⁴. Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, v. 1, p. 225 Proctor, R.…- Contributor: Manuel I - Julius II - Malherio, Petrus Alphonsus - Costa, Jorge Da - Weyssenburger, Johann
- Date: 1507
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Book/Printed MaterialLe Népal, étude historique d'un royaume hindou, Le Nepal: étude historique d'un royaume hindou (Nepal: An historical study of a Hindu kingdom) is a three-volume work by the eminent French orientalist Sylvain Lévi (1863-1935). Lévi became a lecturer at…- Contributor: Lévi, Sylvain
- Date: 1905
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Book/Printed MaterialThrough Persia in disguise; with reminiscences of the Indian mutiny Through Persia in Disguise, with Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny consists of diary entries written by Charles Edward Stewart, an officer in the Indian Army and later British consul general at Tabriz…- Contributor: Stewart, Basil - Stewart, Charles Edward
- Date: 1911
- Resource: PDF, Text - 477
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Book/Printed MaterialIndian Ocean : five island countries "Research completed August 1994." Supercedes the 1982 ed. of Indian Ocean : five island countries, edited by Frederica M. Bunge. Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-372) and index. Also available in digital form.- Contributor: Metz, Helen Chapin - Library of Congress. Federal Research Division
- Date: 1995
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Book/Printed MaterialLettres sur l'Inde; à la frontière afghane James Darmesteter (1849-94) was a great French Iranist who from 1885 occupied the chair of Persian language and literature at the Collège de France in Paris. His major fields of study were…- Contributor: Darmesteter, James
- Date: 1888
- Resource: PDF - 398
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Book/Printed MaterialSouthern Afghanistan and the North-west frontier of India Southern Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier of India is a pamphlet containing two separate works, "Southern Afghanistan. The Tal-Chotiali Route," and a paper entitled "The North-West Frontier of India." The first work…- Contributor: Vyse, Griffin W.
- Date: 1881
- Resource: PDF, Text - 55
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Book/Printed MaterialAcross the border; Across the Border, or Pathan and Biloch is a work of ethnographic description by little-known English writer Edward Emmerson Oliver. It deals with the Afghan and Baluch tribes of the northwest frontier…- Contributor: Oliver, Edward Emmerson
- Date: 1890
- Resource: PDF, Text - 366
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Book/Printed MaterialOutline of the operations of the British troops in Scinde and Afghanistan, betwixt Nov. 1838 and … Outline of the Operations of the British Troops in Scinde and Affghanistan is a detailed account of British military operations in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) and of the invasion in 1839…- Contributor: Buist, George
- Date: 1843
- Resource: PDF, Text - 362
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal narrative of the campaigns in Affghanistan, Sinde, Beloochistan, etc., William Henry Dennie (1789-1842) was a British army officer who took part in the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839-42. During the Anglo-Indian occupation of Kabul in 1840 he was sent with a…- Contributor: Dennie, William Henry - Steele, William Edward
- Date: 1843
- Resource: PDF, Text - 233
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Book/Printed MaterialEast India (military) Report on the air operations in Afghanistan between December 12th, 1928, and February … The booklet presented here contains a report on the 1928-29 air evacuation of the British Legation in Kabul, a Western enclave that was caught up in a tribal revolt against the ruler…- Contributor: Great Britain. Royal Air Force, India - Great Britain. India Office - Salmond, William Geoffrey Hanson
- Date: 1929
- Resource: PDF, Text - 46
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Book/Printed MaterialPakistan : a country study "Research completed April 1994." Supercedes the 1984 ed. of Pakistan : a country study, edited by Richard F. Nyrop. Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-361) and index. Also available in digital form.- Contributor: Blood, Peter R.
- Date: 1995
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of a journey to Kalât Charles Masson (alias of James Lewis) was a traveler and explorer who was the first European to appreciate the archeological heritage of Afghanistan. Not much is known about his early life. He…- Contributor: Masson, Charles
- Date: 1843
- Resource: PDF, Text - 477
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of various journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab, & Kalât, during a residence in those … Charles Masson (alias of James Lewis) was a traveler and explorer who was the first European to appreciate the archeological heritage of Afghanistan. Not much is known about his early life. He…- Contributor: Masson, Charles - Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Library (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1844