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Bengal Lancer

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Description: Autobiography of a British cavalry officer in pre-war India and on the western front, who later became a member of the Royal flying corps in Mesopotamia. The closing chapters concern his subsequent travels in India and give his interpretation of the Hindu philosophy through the medium of his own personal experience.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1954]
Call number: 626695
Creator: Yeats-Brown, Francis (1886-1944)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 19 cm
Associated people: Metcalf, Edwards H.

Purdah : the status of Indian women

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"When the blond Frieda Hauswirth Das went to India as the bride of the high caste Hindu she had met in California, Indian women were still kept within the rigid seclusion of purdah. No man, except her husband, was permitted to see the face of a high born Hindu girl, and he only after the wedding ceremony. Today, Indian women are foremost in the struggle for the country's freedom and are throwing off the restrictions from which they have suffered for centuries. Mrs. Das' volume is the story of these women of India, of their historic role since the days of the first Aryan invasion, and, more particularly, of their struggle for emancipation and of the prominent part they are playing today in the seething life in India. On this subject no one can write with greater authority than Mrs. Das. As narrated in her highly praised autobiography, "A Marriage to India," she was born in Switzerland but came to this country and attended Leland Stanford University. It was here she met her future husband, with whom she later went to live in India. Mrs. Das remained there for a number of years, and had the unusual opportunity of coming into intimate contact with many of the leaders of Indian thought and political life"--dust jacket.

635877

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A thirty year retrospective

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"Born in Osaka, Japan in 1949, Kenro Izu moved to New York City in the early 1970s, where he quickly established himself as a master of still life photography. A chance viewing of the mammoth plate photographs by the Victorian photographer Francis Frith led Izu to travel to Egypt in 1979, to photograph the pyramids and other sacred monuments. Thus began the artist s renowned series 'Sacred Places,' which includes work from holy sites in Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico, Easter Island and, more recently, Buddhist and Hindu sites in India, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China. Using a custom-made, 300-pound camera, Izu creates negatives that are 14 inches high by 20 inches wide. The resulting platinum palladium prints are widely recognized as being among the most beautiful prints in the history of the medium. To celebrate the thirtieth year of the ongoing 'Sacred Places' series, we are proud to present Kenro Izu's Thirty Year Retrospective, a stunning collection of the artist s most powerful work to date"--Publisher's description.

653184

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Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings letters

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These letters were written to the Scottish advocate and Tory politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. The first four letters were written from London (to Henry Dundas) and deal with personal things as well as finding a position for a friend, etc. The last three letters were written from Calcutta (to Robert Dundas) and deal with the East India Company, Great Britain's interests in India, as well as British politicians in Calcutta. The other item is a list of pensions Hastings recommended to the "Lord Advocate."

mssHM 80771-80778

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The Kama sutra of Vatsyayana

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"The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, a Sanskrit book of about the third century A.D., has for long been honoured in India as the earliest Indian treatise on the science and art of sex and love. It describes social customs in early India, analyses sexual techniques and comments on the many different situations in which men and women of the day might find themselves involved and how best these should be dealt with. Its purpose is to discover in what ways happiness and enjoyment can be best achieved. While sharing the Indian attitude to love as an ecstatic experience, it assumes that sexual happiness is founded on scientific knowledge and to this end it provides a series of chapters based on the practical experience of sex. In this respect it is a forerunner of the marriage guidance books of today. The Kama Sutra underlies all later Indian writings on love including Sanskrit love poetry and is a classic contribution to Indian culture"--dust jacket.

635962

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Allan M. Pope letter to George S. Patton

Manuscripts

Letter was originally assigned at date of [July?] 1915 supposing that this was written just before Patton's reassignment to the 15th Cavalry before he requested a reassignment to the 8th Cavalry. It was actually written in June or July of 1909 just after graduation from the U.S. Military Academy and before Patton's first assignment to the 15th Cavalry as a Second Lieutenant. In the letter signed "Allan M. Pope, 2"Lt., 2" Cav.," 2LT Pope writes that he sees that Patton has been assigned to the 15th Cavalry and for personal reasons wants to be join the same regiment. He asks if Patton would like to instead transfer to the 2nd Cavalry that is due to deploy to the Philippine Islands in December. He describes the 2nd Cavalry as having a better bunch of youngsters than in any regiment. He writes that he hates to leave, but he must get into the 15th Cavalry. Pope says he can arrange a transfer and that it will not affect his military career at all. Allan M. Pope was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1911 and the 2nd Cavalry was in the Philippines in early 1910.

mssHM 48790

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Cowper, William. Letter to [John Newton]

Manuscripts

Copy in the handwriting of Robert Southey, 2 pages. The letter, lacking first few sentences regarding the neglect by an unidentified man of his sister and closing paragraph, is transcribed in Thomas Wright, ed. The Correspondence of William Cowper (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904), vol. II: pp. 289-90.

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