Travels in India

I agree completely with M. Jura in the opinion that the internal evidence is too strong to admit of the supposition that Tavernier was not personally the author of the larger part of the memoirs and that from their very nature they could not According to a note in the MS—Catalogue of the 13ibliolitequo Imphiale the Voyages of Tavernier were compiled from his own notes in part by his friend Chap [...] D. who held a post in the office of the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was also a man of wide culture and one of the leaders of literary and scientific life in Dublin up to the time of his death in 1857. [...] From his pages we can draw a realistic picture of Mughal India of the Court and army ; of the splendid presents which the profits of his business allowed him to offer to the Emperor and his officials ; of the Küzi and the administration of justice ; of the police and the custom-house officials. [...] the help of the Travels of Tavernier the Travels in the Mogul Empire of Bernier the Scoria do Mogor of Manueci John Fryer's New Account of East _India and Persia with the narratives which we owe to the Halduyt Society combined with the evidence from Indian sources which has been skilfully collected by Professor Jadunath Sarkar and the History of the Mahrattas of Grant Duff we can understand i [...] Tavernier clearly Confused the disruption of the Muhammadan Bahmatil power with the later overthrow of the Hindu empire of Vijayanagarj a mistake the less excusable in that the former monarchy lay to the north of the Krishna.