India's cries to British humanity, relative to the suttee, infanticide, British connexion with idolatry, ghaut murders, and slavery in India; : to which is added humane hints for the melioration of the state of society in British India. / By J. Peggs.

  • Peggs, James, 1793-1850.
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1830
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India's cries to British humanity, relative to the suttee, infanticide, British connexion with idolatry, ghaut murders, and slavery in India; : to which is added humane hints for the melioration of the state of society in British India. / By J. Peggs. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Published for the author, by Seely and Son, Fleet Street, sold also by Wightman, Paternoster Row: Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh: and Keene, Dublin, 1830.

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xii, 518 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engr.) ; 8vo (24 cm)

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Second edition, revised and enlarged.

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On verso of title-page: J. Haddon, Printer, Castie Street, Finsbury.
Copy 1. Printed spine label: 'India's Cries to British Humanity. Second edition. Subscribers 8s. Non-Subscribers 10s.' Insertion of 8 newspaper clippings discussing suttee, all dated 1928.

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