Author: [Colesworthey, Grant].
Title: RURAL LIFE IN BENGAL; Illustrative of Anglo-Indian Suburban Life; More Particularly in Connection With the Planter and Peasantry, the Varied Produce of the Soil and Seasons; With Copious Details of the Culture and Manufacture of Indigo.
Description: W. Thacker & Co., 1860. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xii + 203pp. + [viii]. publ. adverts. Map frontis. (sl. chipped), 166 ills. from engravings. Some light browning, original gilt lettered blind embossed cloth lightly soiled and rubbed, corners sl. bumped, some darkening to edges, rebacked with much of original spine laid down. ¶ Colesworthey Grant (1813–1880) English artist, writer and pioneer activist against cruelty to animals in India. Teaching himself art and sketching, he produced numerous portraits of many early East India Company servants of influence in Calcutta which were published in the local periodicals of the time. He later became a professor of drawing. He founded the Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1861 after seeing the sorry conditions especially of draught animals on the streets of Calcutta. Of great general interest, and with a lengthy chapter regarding the extraction and processing of Indigo.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; INDIA


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