An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India : And the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope

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The Scots historian William Robertson (1721–93) published this work in 1791. It is a synthesis of all earlier western accounts of India from classical times to the sixteenth century, and a long appendix describes 'the genius, the manners, and institutions of the people of India'.