Books in the European Understanding of India Series series

A record of W. H. Sleeman's three-month tour through the rural areas of the kingdom of Oudh.

One of the incidental consequences of the success of British arms in eighteenth-century India was the appearance of a number of publications which reflect the intense curiosity of contemporary Europeans about strange peoples, their manners and religions. This book reprints some of the most significant English contributions to the early European understanding of Hinduism.

This 1971 edition contains selections from Heber's account of his stay in Calcutta in 1823-24 and his subsequent journey across northern India to Bombay. The journal is marked by a sympathetic understanding of and interest in India to a degree by no means always to be found in British writers of this time.