Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Travels in India - Volume 1

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Produktbeschreibung

An 1889 translation of the account of his Indian travels by French merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781108046022
• ISBN-10: 1108046029
• Artikelnr.: 35451501

Inhaltsangabe

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 Jahánárád, 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 Abbás), 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 Burhánpur and Sironj; 5. Route from Surat to Agra by
Ahmadábád; 6. Route from Ispahan to Agra by Kandahár; 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
Sháistá Khán, 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 Sháh Jahán, King of India,
and the rebellion of the Princes, his sons; 3. Concerning Sháh Jahán's
prison, and how he was punished by Aurangzer, his third son, for the
injustice he had done to Prince Boláki his nephew, grandson of Jahángir, to
whom, since he was the son of the firstborn, the Empire of the Moguls
belonged; 4. Concerning the flight of Dárá Sháh to the Kingdoms of Sind and
Gujarát; 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 Shujá; 6. Concerning the prison of Sultan
Muhammad, son of Aurangzer, and of Sultan Suliman Sheko, eldest son of Dárá
Sháh; 7. Concerning the beginning of Aurangzeb's reign, and the death of
Sháh Jahán, 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 Nawáb Sháistá Khán 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.