Forbes, Alexander Kinloch (1821-1865), Indian civil servant; author of Râs Mâlâ

Notebooks of Alexander Kinloch Forbes, historian of Gujarat, containing notes on Gujarati history, legends and customs, pedigrees, descriptions of historical monuments and translations of inscriptions, compiled from 1849 onwards. The volumes are the remains of a larger body of research materials gathered by Forbes, from which he compiled Râs Mâlâ, Hindu annals of Western India with particular reference to Gujarat (1856). They contain however much additional matter, and indeed Forbes continued to add to them after publication of that work.

mid-19th century

3 volumes

Purchased at Hodgson's sale, 25 Jan. 1929, part of lot 911.

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.