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![Seller image for Hindoostan, containing, A Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, &C. of the Hindoos. : Volume 2 only (of 6 Volumes). [The World in Miniature] for sale by J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC)](https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/md/md31253128161.jpg)
Hindoostan, containing, A Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, &C. of the Hindoos. : Volume 2 only (of 6 Volumes). [The World in Miniature]
Published by London. R. Akermann, Repository of Arts. c.[1822], 1822
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
16mo. 15cm, 273p., with 16 hand colour engraved plates (including 4 folding), in the original publisher's light brown boards, printed red spine label, spine edges worn, bookplate removed from front paste down endpapers, (internally clean and sound), a very good copy, Rare (tds). ~ An early nineteenth century European look at India (Hindoostan being the Persian name for the country) and its people. With striking colour plates of the people of Hindoostan dated 1822 - Plate titles: Maabar writer; wives of Brahmins; a Mamostann Officer; Sujah Dowlah and his ten wives; Hindoo ladies; a Brahmin who teaches days with wife; the Fakir Perkasanund; and others. Interestingly, after the partition of India, it was common for "Hindustan" to be the Muslim name for the Republic of India.
