ASI Report of A Tour in The Panjab and Rajputana in 1883-84 (Volume XXIII)

Book Specification Item Code: AZB518 Author: H. B. W. Garrick Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India Language: English Edition: 2000 Pages: 247 (Throughout B/W Illustrations) Cover: HARDCOVER Other Details 9.8 x 6.5 inches Weight 594 gm Book Description Preface DURING the past field season, my work laid for the most part in Eastern Rájpútána, and included some of the southern districts of the Panjáb. Leaving Simla on the ist of October 1883, I examined the ancient forts at Bhatinda, Sirsár and Hánsi, together with the mosques and monolith of Firúz Shah Túghlak at Fattehábád. The next place of importance on this route is Túshám, celebrated for its rock-cut Gúpta inscriptions, of which I secured photographs. A quantity of inscribed data was also collected at the old sites of Hánsi, Bairát, &c.; it is to be regretted that the Asoka inscription at the latter place is almost entirely effaced, and does not lend itself to reproduction by mechanical means; I conclude