Author:Henry Thomas Colebrooke

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Henry Thomas Colebrooke
(1765–1837)

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English official in India; wrote works on Indian culture, language and botany. President of the Astronomical Society, prime mover of the Royal Asiatic society.

Works

Books

Remarks on the Present State of Husbandry and Commerce in Bengal (1795) [1]
A Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions, with a Commentary by Jagannatha Tercapanchanana (1798) translated from the original Sanskrit, in 4 vols. [2]
- vol 1
- vol 2
- vol 3
A Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, vol. i. (1805)
The Amera Cosha, a Sanskrit Lexicon, with marginal translations (1808)
Two Treatises on the Hindu Law of Inheritance (1810) (transcription project)
Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanskrit of Bramegupta, and Bhascara, preceded by a Dissertation on the State of Science as known to the Hindus (1817) (transcription project)
On Import of Colonial Corn (1818)
Treatise on Obligations and Contracts, part i. (1818)
The Sankhya Karika (1837), translated from the Sanskrit (published posthumously by Professor H. H. Wilson)
Miscellaneous Essays. [3]
On the Religion and Philosophy of the Hindus.

Articles in 'Memoirs of the Astronomical Society'

Address on presenting the Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society to Charles Babbage, in "Memoirs of the Astronomical Society" 1 (1825), pp. 509-12

Articles in 'Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London'

"Description of select Indian Plants" in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 12 (1818), pp. 351–361
"On Indian Species of Menispermum" in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 13 (1819), pp. 44–68
"On Boswellia and certain Indian Terebinthaceæ" in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 15 (1826), pp. 355–370

Articles in 'Asiatic Researches'

On the Duties of a Faithful Hindu Widow (1795)
Enumeration of Indian Classes (1798)
Indian Weights and Measures (1798)
On the Religious Ceremonies of the Hindus three essays, (1798-1801)
Inscription on the Lat of Firuz Shah (1801)
On the Origin and peculiar Tenets of certain Muhanrmedan Sects (1801)
On the Sanskrit and Pracrit Languages (1801)
On the Vedas (1805)
On a Species of Ox named Gayal (1805)
On the Sect of Jains (1807)
On the Indian and Arabian Divisions of the Zodiac (1807)
On Olibanum or Frankincense (1807)
On Ancient Monuments with Hindu Inscriptions (1807)
On Sanskrit and Pracrit Poetry (1808)
On the Sources of the Ganges (1810)
On the Notions of Hindu Astronomers concerning the Procession of the Equinoxes and Motions of the Planets (1816)
On the Height of the Himalayas (1816)
On the Camphor Tree (1816)

Articles in the 'Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society'

A Discourse at the first General Meeting (1823)
On the Philosophy of the Hindus five parts, (1823-7)
On Inscriptions in South Bihar (1824)
Three Grants of Land (1824)
The Valley of the Setlej (1825)
Inscriptions of the Jaina Sect in South Bihar (1826)
On Hindu Courts of Justice (1828)

Articles in the 'Quarterly Journal of Science'

On the Height of the Himalaya Mountains (1819, 1821)
On Fluidity (1820)
Meteorological Observations on the Atlantic (1823)
On the Climate of South Africa (1823)

Articles in the 'Transactions of the Geological Society'

On the Valley of the Setlej River (1820)
On the Geology of the Northeastern Border of Bengal (1821)

Miscellaneous

Narrative of a Journey from Mirzapiir to Nagpiir, anonymous ('Asiatic Ann. Register', 1806)
On the Origin of Caste (published in the 'Life')
Reply to attack of Mr. Bentley ('Asiatic Journal', 1826)
On Dichotomous and Quinary Arrangements in Natural History ('Zoological Journal', 1828).

Works about Colebrooke

"Notices of the Life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., by His Son" (1839), in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 5(1), pp.1-60.
"Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
"Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in Dictionary of Indian Biography, by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906)
"Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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