The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies was a regular publication which aimed to be “a faithful register of Indian Occurrences”.[1]
About the Journal edit
The journal was sponsored by the East India Company, and was designed to record and share information relating to India and the East India Company, and covered a broad range of commercial, political and cultural content. The journal was printed for Black, Parbury and Allen, booksellers to the East India Company.
The preface of the first volume states its aims:[2]
- The convenience and gratification of that extensive portion of the British Public, which either at home or abroad is connected with our Indian dominions, have been the objects pursued in the projection and conduct of the Asiatic Journal.
- It was obvious, that while the East-Indies opened to every British reader, and especially to every one immediately interested in its concerns, the widest field of useful and liberal information, there was much which could only be explored and detailed in a work expressly devoted to those objects.
The journal was issued for almost forty years, from 1816 to 1845, in three series, each with a different name:[3]
- 1816-1829 - Series 1: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies
- 1830-1843 - Series 2: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia
- 1843-1845 - Series 3: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany
Contents edit
The contents of the journal were arranged in sections titled:
- Original Communications
- Memoirs of Eminent Persons
- History, Antiquities, Poetry
- Natural History, Geography
- Review of New Publications
- Debates at the East-India House
- Proceedings at the East India Colleges of Hertford and Fort William, and Military Seminary
- India Military and Commercial Intelligence
- Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, &c.
- Births, Marriages and Deaths
- East India Shipping Intelligence, Arrivals and Departures, Lists of Passengers to and from India
- Ship Letter-Mails
- London Markets
- Notices of Sales at the East-India House
- Times appointed for the East-India Company’s Ships for the Season
- Prices Current of East-India Produce
- India Exchanges and Company’s Securities
- Daily Prices of Stocks, &c. &c.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "The asiatic journal and monthly register for British India and its dependencies". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "Preface". The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register. 1: i. 1816 [Jan - Jun 1816].
- ^ The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register Bibliotheca Sinica