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SELECTIONS FROM
TRAVELS IN INDIA
BY
JEAN BAPTISTE TAVERNIER
BARON OF AUBONNE
Translated from the original French Edition of 1676,
with a biographical sketch of the Author, &c.
by
V. BALL, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.
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SECOND EDITION
Edited by WILLIAM CROOKE, C.I.E.
Late of the Indian Civil Service
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Oxford University Press
London: Humphrey Milford, 1925
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*Introduction by FWP (2006)*
*Introduction by William Crooke (1925)*
*Life of J.-B. Tavernier, by Valentine Ball (1889)*
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*Dedication: to the King (1676)*

*Design of the Author*

*THE FIRST BOOK:*
Concerning routes which one may take to go from Ispahan to Agra, and from Agra to Delhi and Jahanabad, where the Court of the Great Mogul is at present; 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.

[THE SECOND BOOK:
Historical and Political description of the Empire of the Great Mogul.]

[THE THIRD BOOK:
Concerning the religion of the Musalmans and that of the Idolaters of India; the voyage of the Author by sea from Surat to Batavia, and from Batavia to Holland; and of many peculiarities in different Kingdoms of the East (begins on p. 173).]

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*wikipedia on Tavernier*
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