Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palaeographic : To Which are Added Tables, Illustrative of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, etc.

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A key figure in Benares (Varanasi), James Prinsep (1799–1840) was instrumental in expanding Western knowledge of Indian civilisation. Collected in two volumes in 1858 and edited by the numismatist Edward Thomas (1813–86), these essays are generously illustrated and display the enormous breadth of Prinsep's knowledge.