Western Books on South Asia, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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Charles Lesley Ames (1884-1964) became interested in India after reading a book on the Great Mutiny, and from 1908 onward, he began to systematically collect books from the subcontinent. Ames collected widely, but his primary interests included texts on legal and administrative matters as well as military volumes, commissions, guides, biographies, and a combination of books on Western-Indian cultural interaction. 600 important works are made available in this collection. The primary material deals with the subcontinent, but a variety of travel and reference works are also relevant for exploration in Africa, the Himalayas, and especially Ceylon (Sri Lanka).


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