John Marshall In India - Notes and Observations in Bengal (1668-1672)

JOHN MARSHALL IN INDIA BY SHAFAAT AHMAD KHAN CONTENTS VII. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES BaUasore Ganges River . Hogipore and Nanagur DiUy to Pattana Pattana to Ballasore Pottana to Neopall and Botton Morung hills Neopoll Button Pattana to Lossa Neopall to Lossa Gold Sand Casmeere Jaggernaut Japan Spahawn to Smerna Notes VIII HINDU RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: HINDU AND MUHAMMADAN ASCETICS God Creation of Man Noahs Flood Account Ballanced Ruttons Freewill State after Death Hindoos Mudds Kisny Spirits Long Lived Men Endria or Senses Jaggeranaut Jogees and Fuckeers Notes IX. ASTROLOGICAL ASTRONOMICAL METEOROLOGICAL MATHEMATICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES Constellations Nachutturs Planets Rosses Dayes Length To know Mans Age Twentyseven Joogs Hindoos Almanack What Dayes good for Travell Hot Winds Turnadoes Thought Reading Problems Chronology Measures of Time Notes X.A MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. PRESCRIPTIONS Six Tasts Signes of Health and Sickness Receipts for Purg Oyle Bandgir Antidotes Remedies for various diseases Killed Minerals Notes XI. FOLKLORE INCLUDING HISTORICAL NOTES LEGENDS AND STORIES NATURAL HISTORY MANNERS AND CUSTOMS Charms Aphrodisiacs Good and Bad Luck Witchcraft Omens Incantations Proverbial Sayings Timmerlung Alexander Great Mogulla Conjanna Jougee and Eckbar Justice at Pegue Augull Hindoos Justice Elephants Costareka Murg from Botton .Coee or Jackatra Gosomph Cutchoa Snakes Greene Pigeons Buryall Women Burning Tombs Notes XII. MUHAMMADANS: LAWS RELIGION MANNERS AND CUSTOMS: PARSEES Moores Law Mussulmen Mahumood Syad Adam and Eve Discourses by Mahmud Arif Discourse by Saiyid Jafar Story of a Fuckeere Moores Customs Parsees Notes XIII. PRODUCTIONS AND MERCHANDISE: COINS WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: MISCELLANEOUS NOTES Productions Coynes Ballasore Pattana Fort St. George Metchlepatam Neopall Weights and Measures Languages Sinscreet Naggary China and Japan Lossa Miscellaneous Notes Recipes . Notes BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX MAP MARSHALLS ROUTES FROM BALASORE TO PATNA 1670-1671 INTRODUCTION JOHN MARSHALL the author of the Notes and Observa tions on East India reproduced in this volume does not figure prominently in the early history of the East India Company. Unlike his contemporaries John March Walter Clavell Matthias Vincent and Job Charnock he had no direct intercourse with the ruling authorities of his day nor did he take any part in obtaining grants for trade redress of grievances or extension of territory in the early days of the East India Company. His fame rests on different grounds. For eight years after his arrival in India he pursued the even tenour of his way in Bengal but as the first Englishman who really studied Indian antiquities he left behind him a store of knowledge that will keep his memory for ever green in the hearts of all enquirers into AngloIndian hi