A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar

A three-volume survey, published in 1807, describing a large area of southern India shortly after it came under British control.

Francis Buchanan (Author)

9781108178051, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 June 2011

606 pages, 18 b/w illus. 6 tables
29.7 x 21 x 3.1 cm, 1.43 kg

In 1800 Lord Wellesley, the British Governor General of India, appointed the surgeon and botanist Francis Buchanan (1762–1829) to conduct a survey of the kingdom of Mysore in the south of the country, which had recently been annexed by the East India Company. In the resulting three-volume report, first published in 1807, Buchanan (later known as Francis Hamilton) records the physical and human geography of this large area of southern India. He describes the agriculture, arts and commerce, indigenous religions and customs, natural history and society and antiquities of the regions through which he travelled, and illustrates his text with a map and engravings. Volume 3 describes Buchanan's travels through the western coastal region of Canara, and his return across central Mysore to Madras. It contains an appendix on the state of commercial manufacturing in the region, the destinations of exports, and details of imports by land and sea.

14. Journey through the southern parts of Canara
15. Journey from Mangalore to Beiduru
16. Journey through the northern parts of Canara
17. Journey from the entrance into Karnata to Hyder-nagara, through the principalities of Soonda and Ikeri
18. Journey from Hyder-nagara to Heriuru, through the principalities of Ikeri and Chatrakal
19. Journey from Hetiuru to Seringapatam, through the western and middle parts of the Mysore Dominions
20. Journey from Seringapatam to Madras
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]