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Henry T. Prinsep (1792 1878) was the son of a prominent East India Company servant, and like his father, Prinsep also spent much of his life in the East. He left Britain for Calcutta in 1809, at the age of seventeen, and stayed in India, working in a variety of roles, until his retirement in 1843. His brother James also lived in India and was a prominent scholar. Upon the latter's death in 1840, Prinsep found himself in possession of his brother's coin collection and a notebook, which became the basis of this work, published in 1844. Prinsep explains that the coins which have inscriptions in...
Henry T. Prinsep (1792 1878) was the son of a prominent East India Company servant, and like his father, Prinsep also spent much of his life in the Ea...
Henry T. Prinsep (1792 1878) began his career in India with the East India Company in 1807 and worked in various posts, finally being appointed Persian secretary before retiring in 1843. Throughout his career, and into his retirement, he wrote a number of books about India. The present work, however, published in 1834, is a report taken from information gathered by the late political agent at Umbala, Captain William Murray, whose death made it necessary for other officials to ready the work for publication. The report looks at the history of the Sikh people and the rise of Runjeet (Ranjit)...
Henry T. Prinsep (1792 1878) began his career in India with the East India Company in 1807 and worked in various posts, finally being appointed Persia...
Henry T. Prinsep (1792 1878) was the son of a prominent East India Company servant, and like his father, he spent much of his life in the East. He left Britain for Calcutta in 1809, at the age of seventeen, and stayed in India, working in a variety of roles, until his retirement in 1843. He wrote a number of books about India: in this work, published in 1851, he turns to the north of the subcontinent. Prinsep draws from travel narratives of the few explorers who had been to this territory which corresponds to today's western China and Mongolia to illustrate the lives of the people there....
Henry T. Prinsep (1792 1878) was the son of a prominent East India Company servant, and like his father, he spent much of his life in the East. He lef...
