Indian Antiquary Vol 01

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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INDIAN
THE
ANTIQUARY,
A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
IN ARCHEOLOGY, HISTORY, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, FOLKLORE, &c.
PART I.
FRIDAY, 5TH JANUARY 1872.
Annual Subscription
20, or euace.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
WITH this first Number of the INDIAN ANTIQUARY the projectors tender their thanks to those Contributors and Subscribers who have encouraged their effort, and so speedily rallied to their aid. The first number, nor even the second of such a Journal, cannot be expected to be a fair specimen of what it will be, when the correspondence columns become a special feature, and all our contributors have had time to supply their quotas of information. We must look to present subscribers to aid us by making the Journal known to their acquain.tances and friends. As soon as the INDIAN ANTIQUARY becomes more than self-supporting, the rate of subscription will be lowered.
For those who may not have seen it before we reprint the
PROSPECTUS.
THE great interest now displayed, both by Indian and European scholars, on all subjects relating to Indian Antiquities, has induced the Projectors to undertake the publication of a Journal that may serve as an adequate medium of communication between Orientalists and Archeologists in the different provinces of India and in Europe and America,-in which all that relates to the Archæology, History, Geography, Ethnography, Mythology, Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Manners, Customs, Folklore, Arts and Sciences, Natural History, &c., &c., of India and the neighbouring countries may find a record,-indexed and easy of reference.
The INDIAN ANTIQUARY, will contain, on an average, 32 pages monthly, or 384 per annum, in coloured paper cover.
The leading features of it will be
same issue in which they appear, or wait the best replies procurable by Contributors, who are invited to supply Notes on all matters falling under the heads of the subjects enumerated.
It is the desire of the Projectors to encourage the discussion, between Savans and Students in the West and East, of all points connected with the subjects, above enumerated, and thereby to aid the progress of knowledge.
III. The Journal will also give resumés of the Transactions of all learned bodies, whose professed object is the investigation of Indian Antiquities, &c.; and by presenting to Indian Students, abstracts and Translations of German, French, and other Continental publications, it will familiarize them with the latest results attained by the most advanced scholars in Europe.
IV-A portion of the Journal will be reserved for Reviews of such books as come under the scope of its subjects.
I.-Original Contributions on Archæology; Descriptions of Ancient Architectural and other Lithic Remains; Engineering Works HistoryGeneral and Local; Legends; Folklore Songs of the people; Chronology and Genealogies of Notable Families; Numismatics; Inscriptions; Manners and Customs; Costume and Implements of Husbandry, War, &c.; Arts and Handicrafts; Sports and Pastimes; Philosophy; Mythology and Religions, -their Rites and Ceremonies; Literature and Bibliography; Philology and Grammar; Translations into English and Analyses of Oriental Works and MSS; Geography and Topography; Astronomy and other Sciences; Medicine and Natural History; Ethnography and Ethnology; with facsimiles of Inscriptions and rare MSS, Tracings of Architectural Ornamentations, &c., &c.
II.-Notes and Queries.-The general aim of the Journal will be to make the circle of subjects connected with Indian Archæology, as complete as possible, and whatever Questions, fairly within the domain of Indian Antiquities and Natural Science, any one may be disposed to submit, will be inserted. These will either be answered by the Editor in the Subscribers' names will be registered on receipt, by the Managing Proprietor, of a remittance for six or twelve months' subscription, at the rate of #20, or £2 per annum, this includes postage.
V.-Miscellaneous Selections and Extracts of interest, gleaned from all sources not likely to come under the eye of the general reader, will also be inserted.
Many of the most accomplished scholars in India have already promised contributions; eminent Orientalists in Europe, and America, it is expected, will become Contributors to this Journal.