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The Raj Quartet

The Raj Quartet consists of four volumes.

1. Visions of Empire
2. Pillars and Empire
3. World Enough and Time
4. The Talpur Trilogy
5. Narrative of A Residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad
6. Dry Leaves from Young Egypt
7. The Memoirs of Seth Naomul Hotchand
8.Karachi Resident's Directory (1932) and 1919 Gazetteer of Sindh,Karachi District


Visions of Empire
218 pages with photographs

Visions of Empire pays tribute to the visionary merchants, entrepreneurs, engineers, builders, philanthropists and public servants who transformed Karachi.

A City Emerges (Selections from Kurrachee – Past, Present & Future by Alexander Baillie)

The Chamber Comes of Age (Selections from Karachi Through a Hundred Years by Herbert Feldman)

Visions of Empire (Selections from the 1920 Imperial Gazetteer compiled by Somerset Payne & J. W. Bond)

Remains in Splendour (Selections from Vanishing Karachi, a series of articles published in the Star in 1983)

Remembrance of Things Past (Selections from Kurrachee, Karachi, published by the Star in 1984




Pillars of Empire
160 pages and 63 plates

Pillars of Empire examines close encounters with Sindh and Balochistan’s tribal rulers, landowners, bankers, functionaries, regimental soldiers and merchants, their attendants, musicians, courtesans and purveyors of food and drink.

Reproduced from Volume 6 of “The People of India, a series of photographic illustrations of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan” originally prepared under the authority of the Government of India.

Sketch of the History of Sind *Races and Tribes of Hindustan * Frontier Tribes of Sind and Balochistan * Epilogue by Hamid Akhund
 



World Enough and Time
2 volumes and three posters

The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III
 

 

The Talpur Trilogy
5 volumes and four posters

Narrative of A Residence At The Court Of Meer Ali Moorad, Dry Leaves from Young Egypt,The Memoirs of Seth Naomul Hotchand

 

Narrative of A Residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad
2 volumes

 

Dry Leaves from Young Egypt
2 volumes

 

The Memoirs of Seth Naomul Hotchand
with 4 posters

 

Karachi Resident's Directory (1932) and 1919 Gazetteer of Sindh,Karachi District
with 4 posters

 

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