Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.2023
Herausgeber
Willem van SchendelVerlag
Manohar Publishers and DistributorsSeitenzahl
209
Maße (L/B/H)
15,5/22,3/2,5 cm
Gewicht
406 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-81-7304-061-0
Francis Buchanan was born in Scotland in 1762 and qualified as a medical doctor in 1783. He made several journeys to Asia and went on to become one of British India's foremost surveyors. His travel accounts/surveys have been?published?and?republished?in?India.
In this volume Prof. Willem van Schendel presents a 200 years old, virtually unknown document 'An Account of a Journey Undertaken by Order of the Board of Trade Through the Provinces of Chittagong and Tiperah in Order to Look Out for the Places Most Proper for the Cultivation of Spices' by Francis Buchanan, M.D. Buchanan undertook this journey in 1798 and only one copy of his report survives in the British Library which has remained?unpublished?so?far.
It is the earliest detailed travel account on the region that we have and is a significant source of new information on eighteenth century Bengal, Arakan,?Tripura,?Cachar,?Manipur,?Mizoram?and?Burma.
His account is full of observations about social life, places of pilgrimage, ruins of centuries old Buddhist temples and stupas, etc. He also reports about quality of soil, geographical peculiarities and the state of agriculture, trade and local products in the regions he visited. The information furnished by him about the Chittagong Hill Tracts is simply invaluable for the reconstruction?of?the?history?of?the?area.
The document is additionally important as a record of British expansion in the area. His account can also be seen as an example of how Europeans were beginning to understand the world about them more and more by means of a critical use of sources of information and by experiment. Further, the document being Buchanan's first full travel account is important for a proper?understanding?of?his?later?surveys.
Finally, Buchanan is 'first and foremost an intellectual forebear of all social scientists trying to make sense of social structure and social changes in South Asia'. So historians, students of economy and social scientists all will find the account invaluable.
Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kundinnen und Kunden durch Ihre Meinung.
Kurze Frage zu unserer Seite
Vielen Dank für dein Feedback
Wir nutzen dein Feedback, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Bitte habe Verständnis, dass wir dir keine Rückmeldung geben können. Falls du Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen möchtest, kannst du dich aber gerne an unseren Kund*innenservice wenden.
zum Kundenservice