Saturday, January 25, 2014
LETTERS FROM INDIA
In giving an English translation of Victor Jacquemont’s
letters to his family and friends, during his travels in India, we shall
endeavour to supply a great defect in the French edition of this work, by
stating a few particulars of the life of this interesting young victim to
science, prior to his departure for those shores where he was doomed to find a
premature grave. We shall also add those documents which we consider necessary
to complete his correspondence.
Victor Jacquemont was born at Paris in 1801. His
father, man held in the highest
estimation, is a philosopher of the Tracy school, and a writer of no ordinary power on those
psychological speculations to which a long intercourse of friendship with
Destutt de Tracy had probably directed his mind. He has two sons besides
Victor: the lder in the army, the younger a merchant at Hayti. The three
brothers received an excellent education: such a one, in short, as may be given
in the public institution of France, where instruction is not limited to
knowledge of the ancient classics, but combines with them that practical and
scientific information which renders a man a useful member of society.
Jacquemont travelled to India in 1828, and remained there
for the rest of his life. He Visited Amber in Rajputana, met with the Sikh
Emperor Ranjit Singhat his capital of Lahore, and visited the kingdom of Ladakh
in the Himalaya. He also visited Bardhaman (Burdwan) in Bengal in November
1829. He died of disease in Bombay on December 07,1832.
Book: The British Dominions of India
Author: Victor Jacquemont
ISBN: 978-81-8339-164-1
Language: English
Author: Victor Jacquemont
ISBN: 978-81-8339-164-1
Language: English
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