{"product_id":"travels-in-india-paperback-9781108046022","title":"Travels in India (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108046022","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTravels in India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 1889 translation of the account of his Indian travels by French merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–89).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Baptiste Tavernier (Author), Valentine Ball (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108046022, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e500 pages, 1 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 1676, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–89), French merchant, traveller and pioneer of trade with India, published an account of his journey through India. This two-volume translation, published in 1889 by Irish geologist Valentine Ball (1843–94), includes a biographical sketch of the author, notes and appendices. Tavernier begins his tale with the declaration that 'I came into this world to travel.' As well as most of Europe, he visited large areas of Turkey, Persia and India (where he acquired the great gem, now known as the Hope Diamond, which he sold to Louis XIV), and sailed to Java. In Volume 1, Tavernier sets out from Isfahan to Agra and Delhi; he then supplies a historical and political description of the empire of Shah Jahan and his successors. An appendix provides details about the values of coins, weights and measures mentioned by Tavernier in the original work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction - life of J. B. Tavernier\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Title page of original edition\u003cbr\u003e Dedication to the King\u003cbr\u003e Design of the author\u003cbr\u003e Table of the books and chapters\u003cbr\u003e 'Avis' to the reader\u003cbr\u003e Travels in India: Book I. Concerning Routes Which One May Take to Go from Ispahan to Agra, and from Agra to Delhi and Jahánárád, Where the Court of the Great Mogul Is at Present\u003cbr\u003e as Also to the Court of the King of Golconda and to that of the King of Bijapur, and to Several Other Places in India: 1. Route from Ispahan to Agra by (way of) Gombroon (Bandar Abbás), where particular mention is made of the navigation from Hormuz to Surat\u003cbr\u003e 2. Concerning the customs, the money, the exchange, the weights, and the measures of India\u003cbr\u003e 3. Concerning carriages and the manner of travelling in India\u003cbr\u003e 4. Route from Surat to Agra by Burhánpur and Sironj\u003cbr\u003e 5. Route from Surat to Agra by Ahmadábád\u003cbr\u003e 6. Route from Ispahan to Agra by Kandahár\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sequence of the same route from Delhi up to Agra\u003cbr\u003e 8. Route from Agra to Patna and Dacca, towns of the Province of Bengal\u003cbr\u003e and the quarrel which the author had with Sháistá Khán, uncle of the King\u003cbr\u003e 9. Route from Surat to Golconda\u003cbr\u003e 10. Of the Kingdom of Golconda, and the wars which it has carried on during the last few years\u003cbr\u003e 11. Route from Golconda to Masulipatam\u003cbr\u003e 12. Route from Surat to Goa, and from Goa to Golconda by Bijapur\u003cbr\u003e 13. Remarks upon the present condition of the town of Goa\u003cbr\u003e 14. Concerning what the author did during his sojourn at Goa on his last journey in 1648\u003cbr\u003e 15. History of Father Ephraim, Capuchin, and how he was cast into the Inquisition at Goa\u003cbr\u003e 16. Route from Goa to Masulipatam by Cochin, described in the history of the capture of that town by the Dutch\u003cbr\u003e 17. Route by sea from Hormuz to Masulipatam\u003cbr\u003e 18. Route from Masulipatam to Gandikot, a town and fortress in the Province of Carnatic, and the author's transactions with Mir Jumla, who commanded the army of the King of Golconda\u003cbr\u003e in which also there is a full description of elephants\u003cbr\u003e 19. Route from Gandikot to Golconda\u003cbr\u003e 20. Return from Surat to Hormuz, and how the author found himself engaged in a very rough and dangerous naval combat, from which he escaped without accident\u003cbr\u003e Book II. Historical and Political Description of the Empire of the Great Mogul: 1. Account of the last wars in Hindustan, in which is set forth the present condition of the Empire and the Court of the Great Mogul\u003cbr\u003e 2. Concerning the sickness and supposed death of Sháh Jahán, King of India, and the rebellion of the Princes, his sons\u003cbr\u003e 3. Concerning Sháh Jahán's prison, and how he was punished by Aurangzer, his third son, for the injustice he had done to Prince Boláki his nephew, grandson of Jahángir, to whom, since he was the son of the firstborn, the Empire of the Moguls belonged\u003cbr\u003e 4. Concerning the flight of Dárá Sháh to the Kingdoms of Sind and Gujarát\u003cbr\u003e his second battle with Aurangzeb\u003cbr\u003e his capture and death\u003cbr\u003e 5. How Aurangzer seated himself upon the throne and had himself declared King\u003cbr\u003e and concerning the flight of Sultan Shujá\u003cbr\u003e 6. Concerning the prison of Sultan Muhammad, son of Aurangzer, and of Sultan Suliman Sheko, eldest son of Dárá Sháh\u003cbr\u003e 7. Concerning the beginning of Aurangzeb's reign, and the death of Sháh Jahán, his father\u003cbr\u003e 8. Concerning the preparations which are made for the festival of the Great Mogul, when he is solemnly weighed every year\u003cbr\u003e of the splendour of his thrones and the magnificence of his Court\u003cbr\u003e 9. Concerning other details of the Great Mogul's Court\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Great Mogul orders all his jewels to be shown to the author\u003cbr\u003e 11. Terms of the passport which the Nawáb Sháistá Khán sent to the author, with some letters which he wrote to him and the replies to them, in which the style of these countries manifests itself\u003cbr\u003e Appendix.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913121816856,"sku":"9781108046022","price":38.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108046022i.jpg?v=1696746712","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/travels-in-india-paperback-9781108046022","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}