Britain - India E HOMEPAGES F East-West Encounters
BRITAIN & INDIA Colonial encounters 1700-1947 |
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PRIMARY SOURCES |
Precursors (pre-1700) |
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EUROPEANS
| Greeks & Romans (400-950) | e.g. Strabo, Pliny, Appollonius, etc, etc. |
| Medieval travellers (950-1750 | e.g. Marco Polo, etc., etc. |
BRITISH
| John de Mandeville (1357) | Book download ('Project Guttenberg') |
| Fitch (1583) | Re. Bombay, 1st Englishman to visit India |
| Elizabeth I (1600) | Charter to E. India Company |
| Steel & Crowther (1615-16) | Journey… from Ajmeer in India, to Persia ditto |
| Mun (1630s?) | England's treasure by foreign trade, E.India Company |
| Bernier (1655) | An Account of India and the Great Moghul |
| Fryer (1672-1681) | India and Persia , unofficial commentary snippets |
| D'Avenant (1697) | An Essay on the East-India Trade |
F South Asia post-1700 primary sources E
Britain - India E HOMEPAGES F East-West Encounters