Author:Henry Thomas Colebrooke

Henry Thomas Colebrooke
(1765–1837)

Henry Thomas Colebrooke

Works

Books

• Remarks on the Present State of Husbandry and Commerce in Bengal (1795) [1]
• A Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions, with a Commentary by Jagannatha Tercapanchanana (1798) translated from the original Sanskrit, in 4 vols. [2]
  • vol 1
  • vol 2
  • vol 3
• A Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, vol. i. (1805)
• The Amera Cosha, a Sanskrit Lexicon, with marginal translations (1808)
• Two Treatises on the Hindu Law of Inheritance (1810) (transcription project)
• Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanskrit of Bramegupta, and Bhascara, preceded by a Dissertation on the State of Science as known to the Hindus (1817) (transcription project)
• On Import of Colonial Corn (1818)
• Treatise on Obligations and Contracts, part i. (1818)
• The Sankhya Karika (1837), translated from the Sanskrit (published posthumously by Professor H. H. Wilson)
• Miscellaneous Essays. [3]
• On the Religion and Philosophy of the Hindus.

Articles in 'Memoirs of the Astronomical Society'

• Address on presenting the Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society to Charles Babbage, in "Memoirs of the Astronomical Society" 1 (1825), pp. 509-12

Articles in 'Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London'

• "Description of select Indian Plants" in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 12 (1818), pp. 351–361
• "On Indian Species of Menispermum" in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 13 (1819), pp. 44–68
• "On Boswellia and certain Indian Terebinthaceæ" in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 15 (1826), pp. 355–370

Articles in 'Asiatic Researches'

• On the Duties of a Faithful Hindu Widow (1795)
• Enumeration of Indian Classes (1798)
• Indian Weights and Measures (1798)
• On the Religious Ceremonies of the Hindus three essays, (1798-1801)
• Inscription on the Lat of Firuz Shah (1801)
• On the Origin and peculiar Tenets of certain Muhanrmedan Sects (1801)
• On the Sanskrit and Pracrit Languages (1801)
• On the Vedas (1805)
• On a Species of Ox named Gayal (1805)
• On the Sect of Jains (1807)
• On the Indian and Arabian Divisions of the Zodiac (1807)
• On Olibanum or Frankincense (1807)
• On Ancient Monuments with Hindu Inscriptions (1807)
• On Sanskrit and Pracrit Poetry (1808)
• On the Sources of the Ganges (1810)
• On the Notions of Hindu Astronomers concerning the Procession of the Equinoxes and Motions of the Planets (1816)
• On the Height of the Himalayas (1816)
• On the Camphor Tree (1816)

Articles in the 'Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society'

• A Discourse at the first General Meeting (1823)
• On the Philosophy of the Hindus five parts, (1823-7)
• On Inscriptions in South Bihar (1824)
• Three Grants of Land (1824)
• The Valley of the Setlej (1825)
• Inscriptions of the Jaina Sect in South Bihar (1826)
• On Hindu Courts of Justice (1828)

Articles in the 'Quarterly Journal of Science'

• On the Height of the Himalaya Mountains (1819, 1821)
• On Fluidity (1820)
• Meteorological Observations on the Atlantic (1823)
• On the Climate of South Africa (1823)

Articles in the 'Transactions of the Geological Society'

• On the Valley of the Setlej River (1820)
• On the Geology of the Northeastern Border of Bengal (1821)

Miscellaneous

• Narrative of a Journey from Mirzapiir to Nagpiir, anonymous ('Asiatic Ann. Register', 1806)
• On the Origin of Caste (published in the 'Life')
• Reply to attack of Mr. Bentley ('Asiatic Journal', 1826)
• On Dichotomous and Quinary Arrangements in Natural History ('Zoological Journal', 1828).

Works about Colebrooke

• "Notices of the Life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., by His Son" (1839), in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 5(1), pp.1-60.
• "Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in Dictionary of Indian Biography, by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906)
• "Colebrooke, Henry Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)