Travels In The Mogul Empire Volume 1 Scholars Choice Edition

Author : François Bernier
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330329931
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Travels in the Mogul Empire written by François Bernier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in the Mogul Empire It was led to select Bernier's Travels as the opening volume of my Oriental Miscellany Series for two reasons. An edition of this book had been promised, but never actually issued,, by my Grandfather as one of the works to be included in that Miscellany, which may be regarded as the precursor of all the healthy, cheap, and popular literature of the present day; and, further, it was a book which I had ever admired, even before I was able, from actual experience, to fully appreciate its very remarkable accuracy. Strange to say, although frequently reprinted and translated, there does not exist, so far as I am aware, any satisfactory edition as to general editing, notes, and so forth, and this has, I hope, proved of advantage to me. For all that, I cannot claim to have approached, even partially, an ideally perfect edition; but, to quote Bernier's own words as applied to his map of The Mogol Empire, I prefer to hope that I have produced a work 'not absolutely correct, but merely less incorrect than others that I have seen.' For instance, a copy of the Urdu translation made in 1875 by Colonel Henry Moore, and lithographed in two volumes 8vo, at Umritsur and Moradabad in 1886 and 1888 respectively, only reached my hands after the Bibliography had been printed off. Nor have I been able as yet to find any copy of a Lucknow reprint of the Delhi edition, No.22 of the list. In my treatment of Indian proper names, and Indian and Persian words generally, in my notes and elsewhere, I have availed myself very liberally of the 'time-honoured spelling' proviso or clause, laid down by authority, in the rules which govern the transliteration of such words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.