Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies - DUBOIS, Abbé Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies, Dubois | Page 783

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By rescuing from obscurity the final results of Abbe Dubois's
thirty years of observation and research, Mr. Beauchamp will place
the life-work of that great missionary in its true form before the world.
He also makes a considerable addition to our knowledge of Southern
India on the eve of British rule.' The Times.
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'Mr. Beauchamp has not only rescued from oblivion the finished
Madras MS., but he has performed the task of translator and editor
with fidelity and skill. His footnotes are exactly what they should be,
neither adding to nor taking from the text, but explaining terms which
might otherwise puzzle the English reader, and stating the subsequent
legislative action of the British Government in regard to the customs
or practices described by Dubois.'
The Pall Mall Gazette.
While in some degrees this is a new work, it may be best regarded
an authoritative edition of a book that has become almost a standard
authority on Deccan manners and customs at the beginning of this
[the nineteenth] century.'
The Athenaeum.
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as
'Mr. Beauchamp's work
is
admirably done.'
The
Spectator.
Beauchamp has earned the gratitude of all for his research and
the eminently able manner in which he has translated and edited this
work, so as to make it at last worthy of its truly remarkable author.'
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Mr.
The English Historical Review.
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With
all its
extraordinary fullness of detail his book
and few who have once taken it up
The Imperial Institute Journal.
as it is instructive,
to the conclusion.'
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A
any
work
unusual importance and standard
The Asiatic Quarterly Review.
of
price. '
value.
is
as interesting
will fail to
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is
read
cheap at
'Mr. Beauchamp has done good service to the reading public and to
the reputation of the author by now publishing ... a verbatim transla-
tion of Dubois's great work in its revised form, elucidated by many
excellent notes suggested by the events of the last seventy years, and
by the researches of later writers, who have devoted their attention to
the study of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of India."
The Times of India.
•This admirable translation of the Abbe Dubois's remarkable work
on the sympathetic editor and annotator.'
reflects the highest credit
The Bombay
Gazette.