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Home Essays Collections Explore Sources Shop Support PDR About Blog Search Search The Public Domain Review Collections / Images In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825) The only English text in the manuscript is on one of the opening leafs, where someone has added a looping pencil inscription below the neat columns of Persian text. It records a gift: “History of the origin and distinguishing marks of the different Castes of India, compiled by Lt. Col. J. Skinner, CB, whose gift it is to the present possessor, JW.” The book itself looks mor
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Home Essays Collections Explore Sources Shop Support PDR About Blog Search Search The Public Domain Review Collections / Images In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825) The only English text in the manuscript is on one of the opening leafs, where someone has added a looping pencil inscription below the neat columns of Persian text. It records a gift: “History of the origin and distinguishing marks of the different Castes of India, compiled by Lt. Col. J. Skinner, CB, whose gift it is to the present possessor, JW.” The book itself looks mor
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