Object of the week: The diplomat & the dodo
Thomas Herbert’s best-selling 17th-century travelogue details an enchanting encounter with a dodo, only years before the bird went extinct
Travelogues
Mercenaries, Merchants & Medicine-Men by Paul Abraham
Sarmaya Founder Paul Abraham’s talk traces the routes taken by some fascinating travellers to the Subcontinent between the 16th and 19th centuries.
India and its Native Princes
On June 20, 1864, French writer and photographer Louis Rousselet boarded the Veetis, an English steamer bound for the east, from Marseilles. He arrived in Bombay in the middle of monsoon in early July, and stayed on in India for six years, travelling the country and photographing his observations. At the end of his travels,… Read more »
Bombaim, an island of dancing snakes & giant frogs
A sometimes quaint, sometimes bizarre view of 18th-century Bombay and its flora and fauna through our rare books collection