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2 (L-R) Portrait of a painter at work. All works Tashrih volume, British Library; A kayasth/account keeper at work. ;Portrait of the great veena player, Mian Himmat Khan Kalawant.
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History of the Origin and Distinguishing Marks of the Different Castes of India. Ms. folio, written within red and gold borders, with 120 full-page illustrations, and 2 illuminated opening pages, native leather. (c. 1830). Descriptive title of the volume by James Skinner, in the Library of Congress, Washington
James Skinner (1778 - 1841) ‘Sikandar Sahib’, as he came to be known and called by his devoted troopers was evidently a man of parts. One could simply describe him as a mercenary one of the many, whether French, Irish, Scottish, German, Austrian, or English, who one finds roaming the plains of India in the 18th and early 19th centuries, ready to fight for anyone who paid well: ‘swords for hire’, so to speak but that would do him little justice. For certai