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réf. 121802Ajmere Rajputan-Malwa Railway Press 30th June 1890. . First edition; large 8vo 27 x 18 cm; large folding colour lithograph map to front folding milage table to rear small tear to map hinge; publisher's original printed wrappers frayed and with tears to spine but without any noticeable loss a very good copy; xxx 268 pp. Rare and unrecorded quarterly information and fare guide for the Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway B.B.C.I. and newly merged Rajputan-Malwa Railway from Bombay to Ferozepore Delhi Agra Kanpur Jodhpur and Khandwa via Ajmer. Printed by the Rajputana-Malwa Railway Press located in the famous Ajmer Workshops which would produce the first Indian steam locomotive just five years later in 1895 an obscure and little known press of which this copy is one of the few surviving publications testifying to its existence. The type faces and formats are enjoyably uneven and speak to the limited font that the press would have been able to utilise. Ajmer did have a mission press around the same time but there seems to be no mention of any change of name or proprietor and the mission press has no history of railway publications. The contents along with copious tables of the various lines and rates contain the extensive rules and regulations of the railways at the time which reveal a wealth of cultural information. Such tidbits include: concession fares for travelling cricket teams parcel charges for Bazaar supplies prices of ice boxes bicycle luggage rates 11 pages of regulations for transporting pets and livestock restrictions on imports of opium and more besides. Ajmer and its workshops stayed as the crux of the lines of the B.B.C.I. due to its situation at junction of changes in gauge. In 1889 the management of the metre gauge RajputanaMalwa Railway earlier known as Rajputana State Railway was taken over by the B.B.C.I. which previously operated only broad gauge lines. The map lithographed in London by W. & A. K. Johnston shows both lines and indicates the changes in gauge accordingly still with the tipped on slip naming the lines not yet open for traffic. This remains as evidence of the relatively short success of the independent railway business in India as the B.B.C.I. would be purchased by the government in 1905 and was fully nationalised in 1942. Ajmere, Rajputan-Malwa Railway Press, 30th June 1890. unknown
1824réf. 164820Bombay: Printed at the Courier Press by Shreecrustna Jagonathjee Prabhoo for the Honourable East India Company 1824. Regulating the "Bombay Buccaneers" the gendarmerie of the Gulf First and sole edition of the earliest maritime regulations printed in India detailing the day-to-day governance of the Bombay Marine the East India Company's navy. Rare with only two institutional locations recorded. Founded in 1612 and based successively at Surat and Bombay the Marine became a principal instrument of British expansion from the Red Sea to Southeast Asia supporting major campaigns against the Marathas the Mysore and Burmese states and - most prominently - the Wahabi Qasimi confederation in the Gulf. Its squadron played a decisive role in the 1809 and 1819 operations culminating in the General Treaty of Peace earning high praise from naval commanders and Governor Mountstuart Elphinstone. The Marine was equally important as a surveying body. These regulations illuminate the rigorous expectations placed on officers such as Blair McCluer Ross and Brucks whose coastal surveys from the Gulf to the China Seas underpinned British navigation for decades. The text formalizes command responsibilities shipboard discipline victualling and punishments and mandates systematic hydrographic surveying accompanied by 17 templates for logs and accounts. Issued under Henry Meriton superintendent and commander of the Gulf Squadron they reflect the Marine's transition into a permanently deployed regional force at a pivotal moment in Company rule. Quarto 269 x 210 mm. pp. iv 130. With 17 tables 5 of them folding. Neat 20th-century dark blue half calf spine gilt lettered longitudinally single blind rule to the spine and corners marbled boards. Light staining to the margins of the title page pale browning throughout but very good copy. Guillemette Crouzet Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism 2022; Charles Rathbone Low History of the Indian Navy 1613-1863 1877; William Monk "The Persian Gulf Squadron: British Hegemony in the Gulf" Qatar Digital Library. hardcover
