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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Account of India by the Greek Writer Strabo 1

II. The Practice of Suttee, or Widow-burning, in India, according to Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian, Italian, Dutch, French, and English Accounts 68

III. A Description of India in General by the Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Hiuan Tsang 121

IV. Al-Biruni's Arabic Account of the Hindu Religion 154

V. An Account of the Temple of Somnath by the Persian Geographer Kazvini 200

VI. The Portuguese Navigator Vasco da Gama at Calicut and His Reception by the Zamorin 205

VII. The Portuguese Commander Albuquerque's Entrance into Goa and Description of Malabar 227

VIII. Hindu Manners and Customs as Described by the Dutch Missionary Abraham Roger 237

IX. A Description of Bengal by the French Voyager François Pyrard de Laval 280

X. The Italian Traveller Pietro della Valle's Description of Ahmadabad 294

XI. Sir Thomas Roe's First Audience with the Great Mogul 306

XII. Francklin's Notes on Ceylon and on Southern and Western India 314

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