| Afghanistan |
1442 |
Abdur Razzak (of Herat).
Ambassador. Author of Matlu'u-s Sa'dain wa Majma' ul-l Bahrain
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1527 |
Khondamir (of Herat).
His works include Qanuni-Humayuni
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| Africa |
1333 |
Ibn-Batuta.
Author of Tuhfat-un-Nuzzar fi Gharaib ul-Amsar wa Ajaib-ul-Afsar or Rehla
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| America |
1812 |
Adoniram Judson.
Missionary
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1833 |
Nathan Brown.
Scholar. Linguist and philologist. Author of Comparison of Indo-Chinese language
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1836 |
William Robinson.
Missionary. Author of A Grammar of Assamese language
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1836 |
Harriet Low.
Compiled Vocabulary and phrases in English and Assamese
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1836 |
Oliver T.Cutter.
Printer. Edited Orunodoi
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1848 |
Appleton Danforth.
Missionary. Edited Orunodoi
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1848 |
William Ward.
Missionary. Scholar. Edited Orunodoi
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1850 |
Fitz-Edward Hall.
Sanskrit scholar. Author of A contribution towards an index of the philosophy of the Indian philosophical systems
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1853 |
Bayard Taylor..
Author of A visit to India, China and Japan in the year 1853
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1856 |
William Butler..
Missionary. Author of The land of the Veda
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1858 |
James Talboys Wheeler.
Author of History of India 1867-81
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1864 |
Samuel Kellogg.
Missionary. Author of Grammar of the Hindi language; etc.
|
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1874 |
Clara Swain.
Doctor
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1876 |
William T.Hornady.
Zoologist
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1876 |
AK.Gurney.
Missionary. Author of Old Testament into Assamese
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1878 |
Colonel Olcott.
Theosophist
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1878 |
General Grant and Julia Grant.
visited India. See John Russell Young. Around the world with General Grant
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1879 |
F.Marion Crawford.
Novelist. Portrayed Anglo-Indian life in Mr. Isaacs. Edited Indian Herald (Allahabad)
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1883 |
Sidney W.Rivenburg.
Missionary. Author of Angami-English phrases
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1888 |
Charles Rockwell Lanman.
Sanskrit scholar. Author of Jataka Mala etc.
|
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1896 |
Mark Twain.
Humorist and celebrated writer. He touches on India in his travelogue, Following the Equator
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1901 |
Abraham Valentine Jackson.
Author of Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit; etc.
|
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c. 1902 |
Eliza Ruhana Scidmore.
Author of Winter India
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|
c. 1905 |
William Borden.
Director of State Libraries, Baroda
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|
1936 |
Theos C.Bernard.
Author of Heaven lies with us and Penthouse of the Gods
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| Arab |
c. AD. 851 |
Sulaiman A..
A merchant. Author of Salsilatu-t-tawarikh; with additions by Abu Zaid
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|
c. AD. 870 |
AI -Biladuri.
Died AD. 892. Author of Futu' hu-l Bulda'n
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|
915 |
AI -Masudi.
Author of Muruju-l Zahab
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|
c. A.D. 951 |
Abu Ishak Al Istakhri.
Author of Kitabu-l Akalim
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|
c. A.D. 951 |
Ibn Hawqal.
Author of Ashkalu-l Bilad
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|
c. A.D. 1000 |
Abu Dulaf Mis'ar bin Muhalhil.
Poet. His original account in Arabic has been translated into French by G. Ferrand and into German by Avon Rohr-Sauer
|
|
c. A.D. 1017 |
Alberuni.
Author of Tarikh-i-Hind
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|
c. A.D. 1150 |
AI -Idrisi.Geog.
Geographer. Author of Muzhat-al-Mushtaq
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|
1724/25 |
Abbas bin Ali a.
Author of Nuzhat-ul-Jalis wa Munyat-ul-Anis
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| Austria |
1774 |
Johann Philipp.
Author of Viaggio alle Indie orientali, pub. under pseudonym of Fra Paolino da S. Bartolomeo
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|
1843 |
Aloys Sprenger.
Author of English Hindustani grammar; etc.
|
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1766 |
Josephy Tiffenthaler.
|
| Belgium |
1799 |
Francois Baltha.
Artist. Author of Les Hindous
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|
1875 |
Count Eugene Go.
Correspondent of Independence Belge. Author of Inde et Himalaya; etc.
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1878 |
Archbishop Geot.
Came to India as a Bishop
|
| Canada |
c. 1890 |
Sarah Jeannette.
Correspondent of Toronto Globe and Montreal Star. Author of The simple adventures of memsahib; etc.
|
|
1950 |
Elise Aylen.Au.
Author of The Night of the Lord
|
|
1977 |
Jannette Turner.
Author of The ivory swing
|
| China |
c. AD.401 |
Fah -Hien.
Buddhist monk. Author of Fo-koue-ki
|
|
630 |
Hiuen Tsang.
Buddhist monk. Author of Hsi- Yu-shi
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|
675 |
I -tsing.
Buddhist monk. Author of A record of the Buddhist religion as practised in India and Malay archipelago. Tr. by 1. Takakusu
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|
727 |
Hui -Chao.
|
|
13th cent. |
Chao Ju - Kua.Au.
Author of Chu-fan-Chih
|
|
1330-49 |
Wang Ta- Yuan..
Author of Tao-i-Chi-Pio
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|
15th cent. |
Cheng Ho.
|
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15th cent. |
Fei Hsin.
Author of Hsing-cha-Sheng-Ian
|
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15th cent. |
Ma Huan.
Author of Ying-yai-Sheng-Ian
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|
518 |
Sung-Yun.
|
| Croatia |
1295 |
Marco Polo.
Born in Korcula, Croatia. He was a citizen of Venice. See the entry under Italy.
|
|
1625 |
Nikola Ratkaj.
Missionary
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1776 |
Ivan Filip Vezdin.
Missionary. Author of 20 books on India including Viaggio alle Indie Orientali
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1338 |
Giovanni de Marignolli.
Bishop. Author of Cronica boemorum
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1616 |
W.P. Kirwitzer.
Mathematician. Author of Observations cometarum auni 1618 factae a nostris in India Orientali
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1749 |
Karel Prikryl.
Theologian. Author of Epistolae, quibus civitas, collegium et portus Goani, mores Orientalium describuntur et errores plurium, qui in bac materia versati sunt, deteguntur; etc.
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1753 |
Vaclav Prutky - Remedius .
Franciscan monk. Author of Itinerary
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|
19th cent. |
Ian Vilem Helfer Naturalist.
Naturalist. Diaries were published in 1873
|
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1831 |
Stephanus Tamasko.
Sanskrit and Vedic scholar. Author of De Causis linguae Sanscitae
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1863 |
Ferdinand Stoliczka.
Geologist. Wrote on the fauna of South India and on the geology of the route to Kashgar
|
|
1863 |
Otakar Feistmantel.
Geologist. Published observations on culture, history, agriculture, etc. and organized the first exhibition on India in Prague in 1884
|
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1909 |
Otakar Pertold.
Author of Cesty po Hindustanu
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|
1947 |
Herman Klacko..
Diplomat. Author of Svetla a tiene Indie
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| Denmark |
1618 |
Ove Gjedde.
Admiral
|
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1622 |
Jon Olafsson.
Author of The life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson
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|
c. 1670 |
Fredrik Bolling.
Published in 1678 a report of his experiences. Author of Friderici Bollingii OostIndiske Reise-bog, hvor udi befattis hans Reise til Oost-Indien; etc.
|
|
1719 |
Benjamin Schulze.
Lutheran missionary. Author of Hindustani Grammar; etc.
|
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1821 |
Rasmus Christian Rask.
Philologist. Author of Frisische Sprachlehre, bearb nach dem namlichen Plane wie die Islandische und sac-Angelsache
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|
c. 1841 |
Niel Ludwig Westergaad.
Orientalist. Author of Zendavesta; etc.
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| England |
A.D. 883 |
Sighelmus.
Believed to have been sent to India by Alfred
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|
1579 |
Thomas Stephens.
Missionary. Author of The Christian Purana; etc.
|
|
1583 |
Ralph Fitch.
Travelled with Levant merchants. See Ralph Fitch-England's pioneer to India and Burma/Myanmar
|
|
1603 |
John MildenhalI.
Visited the Court of Jahangir. Author of a letter written on October 3, 1606 from Persia
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1607 |
Capt.R.Coverte.
Author of True and almost incredible report of an Englishman
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|
1608 |
William Finch.
Merchant. Agent to an expedition which obtained trading privileges from the East India Co. Wrote letters from Lahore. Published in Purchas his pilgrims
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1608 |
William Hawkins.
Sea Captain and merchant. Author of Hawkins' voyages
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|
1611 |
Henry Middleton.
Merchant and sea Captain. Wrote letters. Published in Purchas his pilgrims
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1612 |
Nicholas Withington.
English Factor.
|
|
1612 |
Thomas Best.
His observations are published in Purchas his pilgrims
|
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1615 |
Thomas Roe.
Diplomat. Author of The embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul
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|
1615 |
Edward Terry.
|
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1616 |
Thomas Coryat..
Reached Agra in October. 1616. Author of Corayat's crudities; with letters from India
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|
1628 |
Peter Mundy.
Worked as a cabin-boy on a merchant ship. Author of The travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia
|
|
1630 |
Henry Lord.
Missionary. Author of A discoverie of the sect of the Banians; etc.
|
|
1655 |
John Burnell.
Author of Bombay in the days of Queen Anne
|
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1668 |
John Marshall.
Perhaps the first Englishman to study Indian antiquities. Author of Notes and observations on East India
|
|
1670s |
John Fryer.
Travelled in the East. Author of A new account of East India and Persia
|
|
1689 |
John Ovington.
Chaplain at Surat. Author of A voyage to Surat in the year 1689
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|
c. 1705 |
Alexander Hamilton.
Author of A new account of the East Indies
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|
1732 |
John Zephaniah Holwell.
Surgeon to the East India Co. Author of Narrative of the black hole; etc.
|
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1742 |
Robert Orme.
Accountant General. Author of A history of the military transactions of the British nation in Indostan
|
|
1748 |
William Herbert.
Hydrographer. Author of A new directory for the East Indies
|
|
1750 |
John Henry Grose.
A writer in the East India Co.'s service. Author-of A voyage to the East Indies
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|
1755 |
Edward Ives.
Naval surgeon and traveller. Author of A voyage from England to India
|
|
1758 |
William Nichols.
Sailed to the East Indies on board the Elizabeth. Author of Sundry remarks and observations made in a voyage
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|
1760 |
James Rennell..
Surveyor. Author of the Bengal atlas; etc.
|
|
1760 |
Alexander Dow..
Author of The history of Hindustan, from the earliest account of time to the death of Akbar
|
|
1765 |
James Forbes.
Member of the L.C.S., an artist and a scholar. Author of Oriental memoirs; etc.
|
|
1769 |
William Hickey.
Law officer with the East India Co. Author of Memoirs
|
|
1770 |
Charles Wilkins.
Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. Writer in the East India Co.'s service.Translated Hitopadesa; etc.
|
|
1773 |
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed.
Orientalist and linguist. Author of A code of gentoo laws; etc.
|
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1776 |
William Roxburgh.
Botanist. Supdt., Calcutta Botanical Garden. Author of Plants of the coast of Coromandel; etc. Left Mss on Indian Botany
|
|
1776 |
Charles Hamilton.
Translated The Hedaya or Guide to Muhammadan Law
|
|
1778 |
William Hodges. .
Landscape painter. Author of Travels in India during the years 1780-83; etc.
|
|
1779 |
Eliza Fay.
Wife of Anthony Fay, who practised in the courts of Calcutta. Author of Original letters from India
|
|
1780 |
Innes Munro.Lieut.
Fought against Hyder Ali. Author of A ·narrative of the military operations on the Coromandel coast
|
|
1781 |
Donald Campbell.
Captain in the service of the Nawab of the Carnatic. Author of A narrative of the extra-ordinary adventures. .
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|
1781 |
David Price.
Worked in the army; Judge-advocate, Bombay Army. Author of A chronological retrospect of Muhammadan history; etc.
|
|
1781 |
Patrick Russell.
Physician and naturalist; botanist to the East India Co. in the Carnatic. Author of The poisonous snakes on the Coromandel coast; etc.
|
|
1782 |
H.T.Colebrooke.
Orientalist and Professor, Fort William College. Author of A digest of Hindu law; etc.
|
|
1782 |
George Forster.
East India Co.'s Civil Service. Author of A journey from Bengal to England etc.
|
|
1782 |
John Malcolm.
Administrator and diplomat. Author of Political history of India; etc.
|
|
1782 |
Edward Moor.
Served with the Maharatta army; member, Asiatic Society of Calcutta. Wrote on Hindu mythology. Author of Hindu pantheon; etc.
|
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1783 |
William Jones.
Orientalist and jurist; founded Bengal Asiatic Society; Judge, High Court, Calcutta. Wrote on Hindu religion and law. Translated Hitopadesa; etc.
|
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1784 |
Thomas Daniell.
Artist. Author of Oriental scenery
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|
1784 |
William Daniell.
Artist. Author of A picturesque voyage to India; etc.
|
|
1788 |
Mathew Ainslie.
Doctor. Author of Materia medica of Hindustan .
|
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1790 |
Robert Home.
Artist. Author of The select views in Mysore
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|
1791 |
Charles Gold.
Artist. Author of Oriental drawings
|
|
1792 |
Thomas Twining.
Visited India and the United States. Author of Travels in India
|
|
1794 |
N.E.Kindersley.
Civil servant. Author of A letter on the propagation of Christianity in India; etc.
|
|
c. 1794 |
Joshua Marshman.
Linguist. Edited Samachar Darpan, the first Bengali weekly in 1818
|
|
1795 |
Thomas Duel ' Broughton.
Worked with the Bengal & Madras establishments. Author of Letters from a Maratha camp; etc.
|
|
1797 |
Claudius Buchan.
Missionary. Author of Christian researches in Asia
|
|
1799 |
John Clark Marshman.
Educationist. Accompanied his father Joshua Marshman to Serampur. Edited Friend of India. Author of History of Bengal; etc.
|
|
1799 |
James Tod.
Attached to the Resident at Gwaliof' surveyed and mapped Rajasthan. Author of Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan; etc.
|
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1804 |
Robert Melville.
Artist and Captain, Bombay Native Infantry. Author of Scenery, costumes and architecture .. .
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|
1804 |
Mary Martha Sherwood.
Wife of Captain Henry Sherwood of the 53rd regt. Author of The Indian pilgrim; etc.
|
|
1804 |
William Taylor.
Bengal Civil Service. Artist. Author of Sketches illustrating the manners and customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians
|
|
1805 |
Daniel Johnson.
Author of Sketches of Indian field sports
|
|
1808 |
Maria Graham.
Married in India to Thomas Graham and later to Sir A.W. Callcott and travelled in Bengal and southern India. Author of Journal of a residence in India; etc.
|
|
1808 |
William Moorcraft.
Veterinary surgeon. Author of Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab
|
|
1808 |
Horace Hayman Wilson.
Orientalist. Translated Meghaduta; etc.
|
|
1809 |
William Henry Sleeman.
Govt. official and Major-General. Superintendent, Suppression of Thaggi and Dacoity. Author of Rambles and recollections of an Indian official; etc.
|
|
1810 |
Sydney Cotton.
Commanded the N.W. Frontier in 1853. Author of Nine years on the N. W. Frontier, 1854-63
|
|
1814 |
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton.
Doctor. Author of Fishes of the Ganges
|
|
1815 |
James Baillie Fraser.
Author of Journal of a tour through parts of the snowy range of the Himalayan mountains
|
|
1817 |
G.Fitzclarence Lt..
in the service of the East India Company. Author of Journal of a route across India
|
|
1818 |
Moyle Sherer.
34th regt. Author of Sketches of India; etc.
|
|
1819 |
Thomas Williamson.
Captain in Bengal Army. Author of Oriental field sports
|
|
1822 |
Reginald Heber.
Missionary traveller. Author of Narrative of a Journey. . .
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|
1822 |
John William Massie.
Missionary. Author of Continental India
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|
1822 |
Fanny Parkes.
Accompanied her husband to India; visited India three times. Author of Wanderings of a pilgrim
|
|
1822 |
G.A.Prinsep.
Studied for three months the external commerce and exchanges of Bengal. Author of Remarks on the external commerce and exchanges of Bengal
|
|
1823 |
Alexander Burnes.
Political Officer in the Bombay native infantry. Author of Travels into Bokhara )
|
|
1823 |
Philip Meadows Taylor.
Nizam's military service. Author of Confessions of a thug; etc.
|
|
1825 |
Alexander Gibson.
Botanist. Author of The Bombay flora .
|
|
1826 |
Henry Miners Elliot.
Civil servant. Author of The history of India as told by its own historians
|
|
1827 |
Edward C. Archer.
Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere. Author of Tours in upper India . . .
|
|
1827 |
James Burnes.
Physician. Author of Narrative of a visit to Sind
|
|
1827 |
Godfrey Charles Mundy.
Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere. Author of Pen and pencil sketches being a journal of a tour in India
|
|
1829 |
Francis George White.
31st regt. Artist. Author of Views in India
|
|
1830s |
John Hobart Caunter.
Writer and cadet. Author of Oriental annual
|
|
1830 |
Robert Elliot.
Author of Views in the East
|
|
1830 |
Henry Lawrence..
Soldier and distinguished administrator. Author of Adventures of an officer in the service of Ranjeet Singh; etc.
|
|
1831 |
Thomas Bacon.
Bengal Horse Artillery. Author of First impressions and studies from nature in Hindustan
|
|
1832 |
John William Kaye.
Military historian. Author of History of the sepoy war in India; etc.
|
|
1832 |
Godfrey Charles Vigne.
Barrister. Author of Travels in Kashmir; etc.
|
|
1833 |
Harriette Ashmore.
Author of Narrative of a three months' march in India. . .
|
|
1833 |
Alexander Cunningham.
Executive Engineer and well-known scholar. Author of Corpus inscriptionum Indicarum; etc.
|
|
1833 |
Albert Hervey.
Captain, Madras Infantry. Author of Ten years in India
|
|
1835 |
James Fergusson.
Architect and distinguished art historian. Author of The rock-cut temples of India; etc.
|
|
1835 |
Thomas C. Jerdon.
Madras Medical Service. Author of Birds of India; etc.
|
|
1836 |
Emily Eden.
Novelist and artist. Author of Up the Country; etc.
|
|
1836 |
Henry Edward Fane.
Author of Five years in India
|
|
1836 |
Julia Charlotte Maitland.
Wife" of Jas Thomas (died at Madras in 1840). Author of The letters from Madras
|
|
1836 |
John Fredrick Shore.
Judge. Author of Notes on Indian affairs
|
|
1840s |
H.A.Leveson.
Hyderabad Subsidiary Force. Author of The hunting grounds of the old world
|
|
1840 |
Henry Yule.
Linguist. Co-author of Hobson- Jobson
|
|
1841 |
John Butler.Major.
Bengal Native Infantry. Author of A sketch of Assam
|
|
1842 |
Thomas Erskine Perry.
Judge, Supreme Court of Bombay. Author of A bird's eye view of India; etc.
|
|
1842 |
T.Acland.Clergyman.
Author of A popular account of the manners and customs of India
|
|
1842 |
George Campbell.
Administrator. Author of The capital of India; etc.
|
|
1842 |
Robert Gill.
Artist and sportsman. Author of The rock-cut temples of lndia; etc.
|
|
1844 |
George Bruce Malleson.
Colonel and military writer. Author of The mutiny of the Bengal army; etc.
|
|
1845 |
James Robert Ballantyne.
Linguist. Author of Elements of Hindi and Braj Bakha grammar; etc.
|
|
1845 |
W.W.W. Humbley.
Queen 's Royal Lancers; joined Sikh campaign. Author of Journal of a cavalry officer
|
|
1846 |
Henry George Briggs.
Served in the Bombay Secretariat. Author of Cities of Gujarashtra
|
|
1846 |
Richard Francis Burton.
Author of Goa, and the blue mountains or six months of sick leave
|
|
1847 |
Edward Braddon.
Commissioner, Bhagalpur and Oudh. Author of Thirty years of shikar
|
|
1847 |
Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Botanist. Author of Himalayan journals; etc.
|
|
1847 |
Henry George Keene.
Civil servant and scholar Author of Fall of the Mughal empire; etc. .
|
|
c. 1847 |
Henry Martin Scudder.
Missionary. Author of The bazaar book; etc.
|
|
1848 |
Charles Richard Francis.
Doctor. Author of Sketches of native life in India
|
|
1848 |
Fredrick Markha Lt. General.
Author of Shooting m the Himalayas
|
|
1848 |
Henry Morris.
Madras Civil Service. Author of Anglo-Indian worthies; etc.
|
|
1849 |
Andrew.Leith Adams.
Naturalist. Author of Wanderings of a naturalist in India
|
|
1849 |
Allan O. Hume.
Civil servant, Ornithologist, and founder of the Indian National Congress. Author of Nests and eggs of Indian birds; etc.
|
|
1850 |
Joseph Fayrer.
Surgeon-General. Author of The thanatophidia of India; etc.
|
|
1850 |
Donald Macintyre.
Commanded 2nd Gurkhas. Author of Wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalaya
|
|
1850 |
William Rice.
25 Regt., Bombay. Author of Tiger shooting in India
|
|
1852 |
Francis Egerton.
Author of Journal of a winter's tour in India
|
|
1852 |
Matthew Atmore Sherring.
Missionary. Author of The Indian church during the rebellion etc. '
|
|
1854 |
Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith.
Orientalist. Translated Ramayana; etc.
|
|
1855 |
James Burgess.
Archaeologist. Author of The rock temples of Elephanta; etc.
|
|
1855 |
William Knighton.
Professor of History and Logic, Hindu College, Calcutta University. Author of Private life of an Eastern king; etc.
|
|
1855 |
Alfred C.Lyall.
Civil servant and scholar. Author of Verses written in India; etc.
|
|
1856 |
Edwin Arnold.
Orientalist and poet. Author of The light of Asia; etc.
|
|
1857 |
George Francklin Atkinson.
Bengal Engineers. Author of Curry and rice on 40 plates; or the ingredients of social life at our station in India; etc.
|
|
1859 |
Clements Robert Markham.
Introduced cinchona trees from Peru into India. Author of Memoirs of the Indian Surveys
|
|
c. 1860 |
T.G.Fraser , Lt.-Col..
Bombay Fusiliers. Author of Record of sport and military life in western India
|
|
1860 |
Lepel Henry Griffin.
Civil servant. Author of The Panjab chiefs; etc.
|
|
1860 s. |
Monier -Williams.
Distinguished Sanskritist. Author of the major Sanskrit dictionary and Life and thought in India; etc.
|
|
1860 |
George Otto Trevelyan.
Distinguished civil servant. Author of The competition wallah; etc.
|
|
1861 |
Baden Henry Baden.
Civil servant and scholar. Author of Land systems of British India; etc.
|
|
1862 |
James Forsyth.
Conservator of Forests. Author of The highlands of central India; etc.
|
|
1862 |
William Wilson Hunter.
Scholar, educationalist and civil servant. Editor of Imperial Gazetteer of India; etc.
|
|
1864 |
Charles E.Gove.
Principal, Madras Orphan Male Asylum. Author of The folk-songs of southern India; etc.
|
|
1864 |
G.P. Sanderson.
Officer-in-Charge, Govt. Elephant-catching Establishment, Mysore. Author of Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India
|
|
1865 |
F.F.Wyman.
Author of From Calcutta to the snowy range
|
|
1866 |
Mary Carpenter.
Educationalist and reformer. Author of Six months in India
|
|
1867 |
John Faithful Fleet.
Epigraphist. Author of Epigraphia Indica; etc.
|
|
1868 |
J.H.Baldwin.
Captain, Bengal Staff Corps. Author of The large and small game of Bengal and the N. W. Provinces of India
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1868 |
Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff.
Governor of Madras. Author of Notes of an Indian journey; etc.
|
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1869 |
William Lee - War.
Civil servant. Author of The citizen of India; etc.
|
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1870 |
George Robert A.
Principal of Rajkumar College, Indore and other institutions. Author- of Twenty-one days in India. etc.
|
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1870 |
M.G.Gerard.Br.
Brigade Major in the Afghan war. Author of Leaves from the diaries of a soldier and sportsman. . .
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1870 |
Denzil Charles Ibbetson.
Scholar and civil servant. Editor of Gazetteer of the Punjab; etc.
|
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1871 |
William Crooke..
Scholar, magistrate and collector. Author of The popular religion and folklore of northern India; etc.
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1871 |
Andrew HL Frase.
Civil servant. Author of Among Indian rajahs and ryots
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1871 |
John Garret.di.
Director of Public Instruction. Author of A classical dictionary of India
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1872 |
George William Forrest.
Director, Govt. of India Records. Author of Cities of India; etc.
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1872 |
T.W.Holderness.
Civil servant. Author of Peoples and problems of India
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1873 |
G.A. Grierson..
Linguist. Author of The languages of India
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1873 |
Edward Lear.Ar.
Artist. Author of Edward Lear's Indian journal
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1873 |
Robert H.Risley.
Scholar and civil servant. Author of Primitive marriage in Bengal; etc.
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1875 |
John David Rees.
Madras civil servant. Author of The Muhammadans
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1877 |
A.H.Arden.
Linguist. Author of The Panchatantra in Tamil; etc.
|
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1877 |
Samuel John Thomson.
Indian medical service. Author of The Silent India; etc.
|
|
1879 |
J.C.Murray -Aynsley.
Visited India twice. Author of Our tour in southern India; etc.
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1882 |
E.F.Burton.Major- Gen..
Madras Staff Corps. Author of Reminiscences of sport in India; etc.
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1882 |
William Foster.
Edited The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 1615-19
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1884 |
Cecil Bendal.
Orientalist. Author of A journey of literary and archaeological research in Nepal and northern India
|
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1887 |
Charles Robert Wilson.
Bombay Education Department. Author of Inscriptions on tombs and monuments in Bengal
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1891 |
Christina S. Bremer.
Travelled in northern India. Author of A month in a Dandi
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1891 |
Ethel St.Clair Grimwood.
Wife of the English political agent in Manipur. Author of My three years in Manipur; etc.
|
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1892 |
E.F.Knight.
Barrister and journalist. Author of Where three empires meet; etc.
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1892 |
Edward Carpenter.
Author of Adams Peak to Elephanta; etc. .
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c. 1900 |
Edward F.Elwin.
Missionary. Author of India jottings; etc.
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1904 |
Walter Del Mar..
Author of India of Today; etc.
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1905 |
Flora Annie Steel.
Married a Bengal civilian. Author of From the five rivers; etc.
|
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1906 |
William H.Hart.
Lived in Calcutta. Author of Everyday life in Bengal . . . . .
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1911 |
John Fortesque.
Author of Narrative of a Visit to India
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1912 |
E.M.Forster.
Celebrated novelist. Author of A passage to India; etc. .
|
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1913 |
G.C.Dyson.
Author of From a Pan jab pome- granate grove
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1913 |
Frank Elias.
Author of The Gorgeous East; etc .
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1922 |
John McKenzie.
Taught at Wilson College, Bombay. Author of Hindu Ethics; etc.
|
| France |
1529 |
Jean and Raoul Parmentier.
Visited Maldives. Authors of Journal du voyage de Jean Parmentier . . .
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1602 |
Francois Martinn de Vitre.
Visited Maldives. Wrote Description du premier voyage facit aux Indes orientales par les Francois en l'an 1603
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1607 |
Francois Pyrard de Laval.
Author of Discours du voyage de Francois aux Indes orientales
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c. 1615 |
Jean Mocquet.
Author of Voyages en Afrique, Asie Indes, orientales et occidentales
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1631 |
Jean Baptiste Tavernier.
Made six voyages to India. Author of Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
|
|
c 1650 |
La Boullaye Le Gouz.
Author of La Boullaye Le Gouz sa vie et ses voyages
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|
1656 |
Francois Bernier.
Physician. Author of Historie de la derniere revolution des etats du gran Mogol
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1665 |
Jean Chardin.
Businessman. Wrote on Suleman III of Persia. Author of Journal du voyage due chevalier Chardin en Perse et Indes orientales
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1666 |
Jean de Thevenot.
Author of Voyages de Mr. de Thevenot, contenant la relation de i' Hindostan des nouveaux Mogols et des autres peuples et pays des Indes
|
|
1669 |
Gabriel Dellon.
Author of Nouvelle relation d'un voyage fait aux Indes orientales contenant La description . . . de Surate, de la cote de Malabar.
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1672 |
Abbe Carre.
Author of Voyage des Indes orientales, male de plusieurs histories curieuses
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c 1690 |
Francois Martin.
Author of Memoirs
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1690 |
Abraham Duquesne.
Author of Journal d'un voyage fait aux Indes orientales. . .
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|
c 1700 |
Luillier -Lagaudiers.
Author of Voyage du sieur Luillier aux grandes Indes
|
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1752 |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Gentil.
Author of Memoirs sur l'lndoustan: Historie de Radjahs de l'Indoustan
|
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c 1770 |
Comte Duprat.
Author of Voyage du Comte Duprat dans i'lnde, ecrit par lui-meme
|
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1774 |
P.Sonnerat.
Author of Voyage aux Index orientales et a la Chine. . . 1774 et 1781
|
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1789 |
Louis Marie Joseph O'hier Comte de Grandpre.
Author of Voyage dans l'lnde et au Bengalie,fait dans ies annees 1789 etc 1790
|
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1792 |
Abbe J.A.Dubois.
Author of Moeurs, institutions et ceremonies des peuples de l'lnde; etc.
|
|
c 1795 |
Joseph Francois.
Author of Voyage au Bengaie . . .
|
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1802 |
Charles Francois.
Author of Voyage aux Indes orientales pendant les annees . . .
|
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1803 |
Guy de Courson.
Author of Une mission aux Indes, 1803-04 . . .
|
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1803 |
Jules Damian.
Author of Prospectus: Un pelerinage dans l'lnde
|
|
1828 |
Victor Jacquemont.
Botanist. Author of Correspondance . . .
|
|
1830 |
Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace.
Author of Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'lnde et de Chine
|
|
1838 |
Saint-Hubert Theroulde.
Author of Voyage dans l'lnde
|
|
1864 |
Louis Rousselet.
Studied art and architecture. Author of India and its princes
|
|
1886 |
James Darmesteter.
Orientalist. Author of Lettres sur l'lnde
|
|
1897 |
Sylvain Levi.
Sanskritist. Author of Le theatre Indien; etc.
|
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1899 |
Pierre Loti.
Pseudonym of Louis Marie Julien Viaud. Naval officer and novelist. Author of Le mariage de Loti
|
|
19th cent. |
Michel Perrin.
Author of Voyage dans I'Indoustan Victor Fontainer. Author of Voyage dans l'lnde Francois Devay. Author of Journal d'un voyage dans l'lnde anglaise. Alfred Author of Voyage dans les provinces meridionales de I'lnde . . .
|
|
19th cent. |
Emile Charles Marie Senart.
Sanskrit scholar. Author of Kaccyana et la litterature grammaticale du Pali; etc.
|
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19th cent. |
A.Thenon.
Author of A travers l'Inde
|
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19th cent. |
Louis Jacolliot.
Author of Voyage au pays des Brahmes; etc.
|
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19th cent. |
Henry Bohan.
Author of Voyage aux Indes orientales
|
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19th cent. |
Emile Guimet.
Musician. Author of Huit jours aux Indes
|
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19th cent. |
Leon Clery.
Author of De Paris a Lahore, lettres familieres
|
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19th cent. |
Prince d 'Orlean et Bragance Louis.
Author of A travers l'Hindo-kush Maurice George Rene Maindron. Author of Dans l'Inde du Sud
|
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1931 |
Henri Michaux.
Poet. Author of Un barbare en Asie
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|
1939 |
Jules Monchanin.
Catholic priest. Author of Del'esthetique a la mystique
|
| Georgia |
A.D. 13th cent |
Minhaj -al - Siraj Jurjani.
Poet. Wrote an historical account, Tabaqat-i-Nasiri
|
|
1795 |
Rafail Danibegov.
Author of A journey to India
|
| Germany |
1197 |
Henrich von Morungen.
Minnesinger.
|
|
1498 |
Martin Behaim and Johannes Muller.
accompanied Vasco da Gama.
|
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1505 |
Hans Mayr And Balthasar Sprenger.
accompanied Dom Francisco d' Almeida
|
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1607 |
Johann Verken.
Soldier in Dutch service.
|
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1638 |
Albrecht von Mandelslo.
Author of Albrechts von Mandellso morgenlandische reise-beschreibung
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|
c.1670 |
Martin Wintergeist.
His account of India was published in Reisebeschreibungen . . . , edited by S.P. L'Nhonore Naber (The Hague, 1930-32)
|
|
1675 |
Christoph Schweitzer .
Author of Reise nach Java und Ceylon, edited by L'Nhonore Naber
|
|
1682 |
Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg.
Lutheran theologian Author of Genealogie der Malabarishen Gotter etc.
|
|
c 1700 |
Johann Ernst Hanxleden.
Catholic missionary Malayalam and Sanskrit scholar. Author Puthenpana; or, the life of Christ; etc.
|
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c 1757 |
Walter Balthasar Reinhardt.
Served Shah Alam II in 1772 civil war; husband of Begum Samru
|
|
c. 1770 |
Johann Philipp Fabricius and Christian Breithaupt.
Co-authors of A Malabar and English dictionary
|
|
1776 |
Johann Peter Rottler.
Produced a report on botanical researches on his journey from Tranquebar to Madras. Also, author of Tamil-English dictionary; etc.
|
|
c 1788 |
Johann Gottfried Haensel.
Missionary in Nicobar Author of Letters on the Nicobar Islands
|
|
1832 |
Joseph Wolff.
Missionary. Author of Travels adventures of Dr. Wolff"
|
|
1842 |
Herman Beythan.
Tamil scholar. Author of Praktische grammatik der Tamil sprache
|
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1842 |
J.C.F.Heyer.
Telugu scholar. Author of religious songs in Telugu
|
|
c 1850 |
Hermann Gundert.
Malayalam scholar. Author Grammar of the Malayalam language; etc.
|
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1859 |
Martin H.Haug.
Orientali Author of The Aitareya Brahmana; etc.
|
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1863 |
G.Buehler.
German scholar. Author of paleography
|
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1866 |
William Schpich.
Author of A manual of forestry; etc.
|
|
1870 |
Augusts Rudolf Frederic Hoernle.
Celebrated linguist. Author of Comparative grammar the North Indian languages
|
|
1873 |
Herman Georg Jacobi.
Celebrated Sanskritist..Author of Das Ramayana; etc.
|
|
1882 |
Julius E.Jolly.
Physicist and celebrated philologist. Translated into English the e Institutes of Narada; etc.
|
|
1884 |
Eugen Hultzsch.
celebrated philologist. Author of Prolegomena zu Vasantaraja sakuna; etc.
|
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1892 |
Paul Deussen.
Orientalist. Author of Das system des Vedanta; etc.
|
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1894 |
F. Kittel.
Kannada scholar. Author of Kannada English dictionary
|
|
1835-36 |
Charles Hugel.
German Aristocrat Travelled in Panjab & Kashmir
|
| Greece |
326 b.c. |
Nearchus.
Author of The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from e from original journal preserved by Arrian
|
|
302 b.c. |
Megasthenese.
Ambassador. Author of Indica
|
|
3rd cent. b.c. |
Dionusis Envoy.
Dionusis Envoy
|
|
A.D. 535-547 |
Cosmas Indicopleustes.
Merchant. Author of Topographia Christiana
|
| Holland |
1583 |
Jan Huygen van Linchooten.
Author of Journael van de derthhien – jarighe, Reise .. na Oost Indien
|
|
1601 |
I.Van Speilberghen.
Author of 't historiael journael … vander Stadt Camp -Vere onaer d'Oost Indien
|
|
1620 |
Franciso Pelsaert.
Junior merchant. Author of a journal
|
|
1651 |
Abraham Rojerius.
Author of De open-deure tot het verborgen heydendom
|
|
c. 1660 |
Philippus Baldaeus.
Author of Naauwkerige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken en het machtige eyland Ceylon
|
|
c. 1680 |
Daniel Havart..
Author of open Ondergang van Coromandel
|
|
c. 1720 |
Fracois Valentyn.
Author of Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien.
|
|
1766 |
J.Haafner.
Author of Reize in eenen Palanguin: of lotgevallen en herkwaardige a antieekingen opeene reige langs de kusten Orixa en Choromandel
|
|
1640 |
John Nieuhoff.
Traveler to the West and East Indies
|
| Hungary |
1829 |
J.M.Honigberger.
Author of Thirty-five years in the East
|
|
c. 1830 |
Agostan Schoefft.
Painter. Made portraits of Ranjit Singh, Sher Singh, etc.
|
|
1847 |
Edward Rehatsek.
Latin scholar and mathematician. Contributed to Calcutta Review and published works on Islam, Christianity; etc
|
|
1854 |
Theodore Duka..
Author of Life and works of Alexander Csome de Koras
|
|
1864 |
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner.
Principal, Govt. College. Lahore. Author of several works. Edited Asiatic Quarterly Review
|
|
1888 |
Mark Aurel Stein.
Archaeologist. Principal of the Oriental College and Registrar of Punjab University, Lahore. Produced many works and catalogues including Memoirs of the ancient geography of Kashmir
|
|
c. 1920 |
Alexender Csoma de Koras.
Author of Dictionary and a grammar of Tibetan language
|
|
1926 |
Ervin Baktay.
Author of lndiai regek es mondak
|
|
1929 |
Ferenc Zajti.
Painter. Author of Kapcsolataink lndiaval
|
|
1929 |
Julius Germanus.
Author of Islamic studies
|
|
1933 |
Rozsa Hajnoczy.
Wife of Charles Fabri. Author of Bengali tuz (Bengali fire)
|
|
1933 |
Charles Fabri..
Author of Indian flamingo
|
| Iran |
10th Cent. |
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Muhammad Istakhari .
Author of Kitab-al-aqalim
|
|
13th. Cent. |
Shaikh Sadi.
Poet. Author of Bustan
|
|
14th. Cent. |
Hafiz (of Shira).
Poet. d. 1389. Wrote a Dewan
|
|
1432 |
Shaikh Azuri.
Poet. Author of Jawahir-ul-Asrar. etc.
|
|
16th. Cent. |
Mir Sayyad Ali Tabrizi.
Painter; accompanied Humayun to India
|
|
16th. Cent. |
Khwaja Abd-us-Samad Shirazi.
Painter; accompanied Humayun to India
|
|
16th. Cent. |
Shahpur khorasani.
Painter.
|
|
16th. Cent. |
Urfi (of Shiraz).
Poet d. 1590
|
|
c. 1560 |
Muhammad Kasim Faristha.
Historian. Author of Tarikhi-i-Firishta
|
|
1577 |
Asaf Khan.
also called Mirza Jafar Beg. Poet
|
|
17th. Cent. |
Muhammad Hussain Naziri.
Poet. d. 1612
|
|
17th. Cent. |
Mulla Zuhuri.
Poet. Works include Mina Bazar; Saqi-nama
|
|
c. 1610 |
Abu Talib 'Kalim'.
Poet. Author of Zafar-nama-i-Shah Jahan
|
|
1649 |
Mirza Muhammad Muqim Fauji (of Shiraz).
Poet, but was also a soldier in Bengal
|
|
1734 |
Sheikh Muhammad Ali Hazim.
Author of Tazkaratul-Ahwal
|
|
1809 |
Mirza Abul - Hasa Khan.
Ambassador. Author of Hirat-Nama
|
| Ireland |
1787 |
George Thomas..
Commanded the army of Begum Samru
|
|
1802 |
George Annesley Valentia.
Succeeded to the Irish peerage as second Earl of Mountnorres. Author of Voyages and travels in India, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt from 1802 to 1806
|
| Italy |
1295 |
Marco Polo.
Author of Il Milione. Originally written in French, and lost. Later reconstructed from various manuscripts ---copied from the original. Translated into Latin, Italian, English, etc
|
|
1321 |
Odorico da Pordenone.
Missionary. Author of 1tineranus orientalis
|
|
c. 1419 |
Nicolo dei Conti.
Author of India recognita forming Book IV of De varietate fortunae by Poggio Bracciolini
|
|
c. 1499 |
Gerolamo di Santo Stefano.
His account is contained in a letter published in Viaggi in Persia India e Giava di Nicolo De Conti, Girolamo Adorno e Girolamo da Santo Stefano, ed. M. Longhena
|
|
1503 |
Giovanni da Empoli.
A Florentine merchant. Author of Letters di G. da Empoli. ed. A. Bausani
|
|
1505 |
Ludovico de Varthema.
Author of Itinerario
|
|
1515 |
Andrea Corsali.
Wrote Ietters
|
|
1565 |
Cesare Federici.
An acccount of his travels was written by Fra Barto Lomeo Dionigi
|
|
1578 |
Rodolfo Acquaviva.
Jesuit in the court of Wrote letters, published in J. Wicki's Monumenta missionum, vols 28-30; Documenta Indica 11, 1577-80, Rome 1970); (vol. 12, 1Rome, 1972)
|
|
1579 |
Gasparo Balbi.
Author of Viaggi di C. Federici e G: Balbi all Orientali ed. O. Pinto
|
|
1582 |
Fillippo Sassetti.
Wrote letters
|
|
1584 |
Jacobo Fenicio.
Missionary. Author of Livro primerio da Seita dos Indios orientalis
|
|
1599 |
Francesco Carletti.
Florentine merchant. of Ragionamenti
|
|
1605 |
Roberto de Nobili.
Missionary. His works include Apologia
|
|
1622 |
Pietro Della Valle.
Author of De'Viaggi di Della Valle il Pellegrino
|
|
1656 |
Nicolo Manucci.
Author of S do Mogor
|
|
1656 |
Giuseppe di S. Maria.
A missionary. Author of Prima speditione all Indie orientali; etc.
|
|
1656 |
Vincenzo Maria di S. Caterina da Siena.
Missionary. Author of the ll viaggio all' Indie orientali
|
|
c. 1693 |
Giovanni Francesco Gemilli Careri.
Author of Giro del mondo
|
|
1710 |
Constantius Beschi.
Jesuit, Author of books including one against the Lutherans
|
|
1756 |
Marco della Tomba.
Missionary. His account is given Gli Scritti del Pandre Marco Della Tomba by Angelo de Gubernatis
|
|
1776 |
Paolino di S. Bartolomeo.
Missionary. Author of Viaggio alle Indie orientali
|
|
1781 |
Eustachio Delfini.
Captain, Author of Raggualic della spedizione della flotta francese all’indie orientali, seguita negli anni 1781-1782-1783 sotto la condotta del Generale De Suffren
|
|
1792 |
Lazzaro Papi.
Missionary. Author of Storia dell' Indostan
|
|
1810 |
Angelo de Gubernatis.
Sanskrit scholar. Founded Rivista Orientale, and wrote Piccola enciclopedia Indiana; etc.
|
|
1712-1713 |
Desideri Ippolito.
Jesuit Missionary. Travel to Tibet via Ladakh
|
| Korea |
c. A.D. 8th Cent. |
Hye -Ch 'o.
Author of Wang O chun chuk guk chun (My visit to five regions of India)
|
| Poland |
c. 1490 |
Gasper da Gama.
Worked as Port Manager
|
|
c. 1596 |
Krzysztof Pawlowskki.
Author of Les Indes Portugaises a la fin du XVlme siecle
|
|
c. 1610 |
Pawel Palczewksi.
Published his accounts in 1610
|
|
1625 |
Andrzej Rudomina.
A Jesuit, whose departure for India was commemorated by the Polish poet Maciej Sarbiewski in an ode
|
|
1736 |
Mikolaj Szostak.
Missionary
|
|
18th Cent. |
Maksymiliam Wiklinki.
Recorded everyday life in Pondicherry and Calcutta in his diary
|
|
1814 |
Rhenius.
A missionary from Gradudenz. Author of The essence of the true Veda
|
|
1830 |
Count Wladyslaw Malachowski.
His account is available in MS form in the University of Warsaw: registered under no. 9708
|
| Portugal |
1488 |
Pedro de Covilha.
Adventurer. Reached Cannonore, disguised as an Arab
|
|
1498 |
Vasco Da Gama.
Renowned navigator. Author of Navigatione di V. di Gaman . . . etc.
|
|
1500 |
Pedro Alvares Cabral.
Author of Nauigation del Capitano Pedro Aluares scrina per vn pilotto portoghese
|
|
1503 |
Afonso de Albuquergue.
Author of Commentarios de Afonso Dalboquerque . . .
|
|
1512 |
Thome Pires.
Author of Suma oriental
|
|
1520 |
Domingo Paes.
Wrote on Vijayanagar. Account published in A forgotten empire by Sewell
|
|
1528 |
Fernao Lopez de Castanheda.
Wrote Historiaa do descobrimento e conquesto da India Polos Portuguese
|
|
1535 |
Fernao Nuniz.
A horse dealer wrote on vijayanagar. Account published in A forgotten by Sewell.
|
|
1541/42 |
Francis Xavier..
Renowned Jesuit missionary and canonize a saint. Author of Lettres de S. Francois Xavier
|
|
1553 |
Camoens.Epic.
Epic poet. Composed most of Lusiads in India
|
|
c. 1559 |
Diogo do Couto.
Keeper of Goa Records. Author of Da Asia (1602-45): 12 Vols.
|
|
1560 |
Edoardo Barbosa.
Jesuit missionary
|
|
1573 |
Antonio Cabral..
Envoy of the Portuguese Viceroy at Goa to Akbar’s court
|
|
1580 |
Antonio Monserrate.
Jesuit spent several years in Akbar's court. Author of Mongolicae legationis commentarius; etc.
|
|
1584 |
Don Duart de Me.
Viceroy. Author of Chronica do Condo D Duarte de Menezes
|
|
1590 |
Pedro Teixerie..
A soldier. Author of relaciones .. de’el origen descendencia y succession de los reyes de Persia .. dende la india Oriental hasta Italia ortierra.
|
|
1595 |
Jerome Xavier.
Jesuit Father. Wrote letters from Akbar’s courte.
|
|
1595 |
Emanuel Pinheiro.
Colleague of Jerome Xavier
|
|
1604 |
Sebastian Manrique.
Member of Augustinian order. Wrote Itinerario in Spanish.
|
|
c. 1616 |
Manual Barradas.
Jesuit Missionary. Wrote on Vijayanagar . Author of Discricao da cidade de Columbo etc.
|
|
1631 |
Antonio Bocarro.
Histonan and keeper of Goa Records. Author of Decada.. etc.
|
|
|
Vasco da Gama..
|
| Russia |
1470 |
Athanasius Nikitin.
Merchant traveler. Author of Khodzenie za tri morya
|
|
c. 1624 |
Fedot Afanaanaslyev Kotov.
Author of a journey of Persia, from Persia to the land of Turkey and to India
|
|
1698 |
S.Malenkov.
Merchant traveller
|
|
c. 1774 |
Filip Yefremov.
Author of The travels
|
|
1785 |
Herasim Lebedeff.
Indologist. Author of A grammar of the pure and mixed East Indian dialects
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1855 |
Helena Petrovitch Blavatsky.
Theosophist
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1880 |
Ivan Pavlovitch Minayeff.
Indologist. Author of Dnevniki puteshestivi v Indiu i Birmu, 1880, 1885-1886; etc.
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| Scandinavia |
1863 |
Lars Olsen Skrefsrud.
Missionary from Faaberg. Author of Santali grammar; etc.
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1894 |
Theo Sorensen and Edvard Amundsen.
Studied Tibetan religion and customs in India
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| Scotland |
1763 |
John Stewart.
Wrote Travels to discover the source of moral motion; etc.
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1789 |
James Moffat.
Portrait artist
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1823 |
John Stevenson.
Missionary. Founded Bombay Gazette and wrote Principles of Mahratti grammar; etc.
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1829 |
John Wilson.
Missionary and orientalist. Founded Oriental Christian Spectator. Wrote a History of the suppression of infanticide in western India
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1829 |
Alexender Duff.
Missionary. Edited Calcutta Review and wrote India and Indian missions
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1839 |
Thomas Smith.
Missionary. Wrote Modern missions and culture; etc.
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1859 |
John Watson McCrindle.
Author of Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian; etc.
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c. 1880 |
Edward Hamilton Aitkin.
Missionary. Author of Tribes on my frontier; etc.
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| Switzerland |
1803 |
De Caselli.
Army officer from Basle. Specialized in portrait painting
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| Tibet |
A.D. 7th Cent. |
Thomani Sambhota.
A scholar
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2nd decade |
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8th. Cent. |
Salnang.
A Scholar
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8/9th Cent. |
Namnang.
A Scholar
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11th. Cent. |
Rinchhen Sangpo.
A monk
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11th. Cent. |
Legs pahi S'erab.
A monk
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11th. Cent. |
Nag-Tcho.
A scholar
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11th. Cent. |
Brogmi.
A Scholar. Translated Hevajra tantra into Tibetan
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| Turkey |
1535 |
Bairam Khan.
Accompanied.Hurnayun from Persia . A distinguished officer the Mughal Court. Author of a Diwan
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1554 |
Sidi Ali Reis.
Admiral in the navy. Author of Mirat ul memalik
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| Turkmenia |
c. 1850 |
Makhtum Kuli Fragi.
Poet
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| Uzbekistan |
A.D. 13th. Cent. |
Muhammad ' Anji.
Author of Lubab-al-albab
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1442 |
Kama1uddin Abdur Razzaq Samargandi.
Remained in Vijayanagar. Author of Malta-us-Sadain
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he winds bent The Trees with a fragrance of rich adventure, and intrigue. It gilded past, unnoticed by most; but every once in a while, a keen mind could feel that fragrance. And, throwing caution to the very same winds that brought The Promise, they walked on…