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1. The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799 by Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta.

The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799 by Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta.
Creator:
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
[132] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan; from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Home; with historical descriptions.

Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan; from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Home; with historical descriptions.
Creator:
Home, Robert, 1752–1834
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 p.., [v]-vii p., 1 leaf, 48 p. 29 plates, fold. map, 3 fold plans. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.

A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Twelve views of places in the Kingdom of Mysore : the country of Tippoo Sultan, from drawings taken on the spot : to which are annexed concise descriptions of the places drawn, with a brief detail of part of the operations of the Army under the Marquis of Cornwallis, during the late war, and a few other particulars / by R.H. Colebrook, Lieutenant in the service of the Honourable East-India Company, who attended the Army in the capacity of surveyor.

Twelve views of places in the Kingdom of Mysore : the country of Tippoo Sultan, from drawings taken on the spot : to which are annexed concise descriptions of the places drawn, with a brief detail of part of the operations of the Army under the Marquis of Cornwallis, during the late war, and a few other particulars / by R.H. Colebrook, Lieutenant in the service of the Honourable East-India Company, who attended the Army in the capacity of surveyor.
Creator:
Colebrook, Robert H.
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

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Creator:
Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711–1798
Date:
1766-1771
Physical Description:
3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory / collected from authentic materials.

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Date:
MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:
134, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. India, a pageant of prints / edited by Pauline Rohatagi and Pheroza Godrej.

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Date:
2006, c1989
Physical Description:
xii, 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

8. India and British portraiture, 1770-1825 / Mildred Archer.

India and British portraiture, 1770-1825 / Mildred Archer.
Creator:
Archer, Mildred
Date:
1979
Physical Description:
536 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

9. Beyond the veil : Indian women in the Raj / Pran Nevile.

Beyond the veil : Indian women in the Raj / Pran Nevile.
Creator:
Nevile, Pran
Date:
2000
Physical Description:
143 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

10. Music of the Raj : a social and economic history of music in late eighteenth-century Anglo-Indian society / Ian Woodfield.

Music of the Raj : a social and economic history of music in late eighteenth-century Anglo-Indian society / Ian Woodfield.
Creator:
Woodfield, Ian
Date:
2000
Physical Description:
xvi, 274 p. : ill., map. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

11. A journey to Hindoostan : graphic art of British India, 1780-1860 / catalogue and exhibition by Thomas P. Bruhn ; essay by Mildred Archer ; prints from the Max Allen & Peter Allen collection.

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Creator:
Bruhn, Thomas P
Date:
c1987
Physical Description:
71 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

12. Forgotten masters : Indian painting for the East India Company / William Dalrymple ; with Lucian Harris, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. J. P. Losty, H. J. Noltie, Malini Roy, Yuthika Sharma and Andrew Topsfield.

Forgotten masters : Indian painting for the East India Company / William Dalrymple ; with Lucian Harris, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. J. P. Losty, H. J. Noltie, Malini Roy, Yuthika Sharma and Andrew Topsfield.
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

13. Illustrating India : the early colonial investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784-1821) / by Jennifer Howes.

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Creator:
Howes, Jennifer
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
xiii, 269 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

14. Reading the splendid body : gender and consumerism in eighteenth-century British writing on India / Nandini Bhattacharya.

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Creator:
Bhattacharya, Nandini
Date:
c1998
Physical Description:
232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

15. The tiger and the thistle : Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India, 1760-1800 / Anne Buddle with Pauline Rohatgi and Iain Gordon Brown.

The tiger and the thistle : Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India, 1760-1800 / Anne Buddle with Pauline Rohatgi and Iain Gordon Brown.
Creator:
Buddle, Anne
Date:
c1999
Physical Description:
95 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

16. The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain / Nicholas B. Dirks.

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Creator:
Dirks, Nicholas B., 1950–
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
xviii, 389 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

17. Indian Renaissance : British romantic art and the prospect of India / Hermione de Almeida and George H. Gilpin.

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Creator:
De Almeida, Hermione, 1950–
Date:
c2005
Physical Description:
xv, 336 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

18. James Wales : artist and antiquarian in the time of Peshwa Sawai Madhavrao : an illustrated chronicle based on original documents / Uday S. Kulkarni.

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Creator:
Kulkarni, Uday S.
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
xviii, 227 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

19. An illustrated journey round the world / by Thomas, William & Samuel Daniell ; edited and introduced by Katherine Prior.

No cover image available
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
2007
Physical Description:
xix, 329 p. : col. ill., maps ; 23 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library