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{{short description|English scholar, orientalist and antiquary}}
{{for|the 19th-century English footballer|James F. M. Prinsep}}
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| name = James Prinsep
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| birth_date = 20 August 1799
| birth_place = England
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| death_place = London, England
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| main_interests = [[Numismatics]], [[Philology]], [[Metallurgy]] and [[Meteorology]]
| notable_ideas = Deciphering [[Kharosthi]] and [[Brahmi script]]s
| major_works = [[Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal]]
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'''James Prinsep''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (20 August 1799 – 22 April 1840) was an English scholar, [[Orientalism|orientalist]] and [[antiquary]]. He was the founding editor of the ''Journal of the [[Asiatic Society of Bengal]]'' and is best remembered for deciphering the [[Kharosthi]] and [[Brahmi]] scripts of ancient India. He studied, documented and illustrated many aspects of [[numismatics]], [[metallurgy]], [[meteorology]] apart from pursuing his career in India as an [[Metallurgical assay|assay]] master at the mint in [[Benares]].<ref name=odnb>{{cite book|author=Losty, JP|chapter=Prinsep, James (1799–1840)|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|chapter-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22812|chapter-url-access=subscription }}{{ODNBsub}}</ref>

==Early life==
[[File:James Prinsep.jpg|thumb|upright|Young James drawn by his sister Emily]]
James Prinsep was the seventh son and the tenth child of [[John Prinsep]] (1746–1830) and his wife, Sophia Elizabeth Auriol (1760–1850). John Prinsep went to India in 1771 with almost no money and became a successful indigo planter. He returned to England in 1787 with a fortune of £40,000 and established himself as an [[East India Company|East India merchant]]. He moved to Clifton in 1809 after incurring losses. His connections helped him find work for all his sons and several members of the [[Prinsep]] family rose to high positions in India. John Prinsep later became a [[Member of Parliament]]. James initially went to study in a school in Clifton run by a Mr. Bullock but learnt more at home from his older siblings. He showed a talent for detailed drawing and mechanical invention and this made him study architecture under the gifted but eccentric [[Augustus Charles Pugin|Augustus Pugin]]. His eyesight however declined due to an infection and he was unable to take up architecture as a profession. His father knew of an opening in the assay department at the mint in India and sent him to train in chemistry at Guy's Hospital and later as an apprentice to Robert Bingley, assay master at the Royal Mint in London (1818–19).<ref name=odnb /><ref name=memoir>{{cite book|author=Prinsep, James|title=Essays On Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, And Palæographic, Of The Late James Prinsep, F.R.S., Secretary To The Asiatic Society Of Bengal; To Which Are Added His Useful Tables, Illustrative Of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, Etc. Edited, With Notes, And Additional Matter, By Edward Thomas, Late Of The Bengal Civil Service; Member Of The Asiatic Societies Of Calcutta, London, And Paris. In Two Volumes. - Vol. I. |publisher=John Murray| place=London|year=1858|url=https://archive.org/stream/essaysonindiana00pringoog#page/n24/mode/1up}}</ref>

==Career in India==
[[File:Illustration by James Prinsep 1831.jpg|thumb|left|''A Preacher Expounding The Poorans. In The Temple of Unn Poorna, Benares''. Lithograph by Prinsep (1835)]]
Prinsep found a position as an assay master at the Calcutta mint and reached Calcutta along with his brother Henry Thoby on 15 September 1819. Within a year at Calcutta, he was sent by his superior, the eminent orientalist [[Horace Hayman Wilson]], to work as assay master at the Benares mint. He stayed at Benares until the closure of that mint in 1830. He then moved back to Calcutta as deputy assay master, and when Wilson resigned in 1832, he was made assay master (overruling Wilson's nominee for that position, [[James Atkinson (Persian scholar)|James Atkinson]]) at the new silver mint designed in Greek revival style by Major W. N. Forbes.

His work as assay master led him to conduct many scientific studies. He worked on means for measuring high temperatures in furnaces accurately. The publication of his technique in the ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'' in 1828 led to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He suggested the possibility of visual pyrometric measurement using a calibrated series of mica plates as well as using the thermal expansion of platinum but considered that a practical approach was to use calibrated combinations of platinum, gold and silver alloys placed in a cupel or crucible and observe their melting. He also described a pyrometer that measured the expansion of a small amount of air held within a gold bulb.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1098/rstl.1828.0007 |title=On the Measurement of High Temperatures|author=Prinsep, J|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|volume=118|year=1828|pages=79–95|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1432360|doi-access=free}}</ref> In 1833 he called for reforms to Indian weights and measures and advocated a uniform coinage based on the new silver rupee of the East India Company.<ref name=odnb/> He also devised a balance so sensitive as to measure three-thousandth of a [[Grain (mass)|grain]] (≈0.19 [[Milligram#SI multiples|mg]]).<ref name="firminger">{{cite book|last=Firminger|first=Walter Kelly |title=Thacker's Guide to Calcutta |publisher=Thacker, Spink & Co.|location=Calcutta|year=1906|url=https://archive.org/stream/thackersguidetoc00firm#page/n65/mode/2up/|pages=36–37}}</ref>

=== Architecture ===
[[File:Kupuldhara Tulao, Benares, 1834.jpg|thumb|Lithograph of ''Kupuldhara Tulao, Benares'' by Prinsep (1834)]]
James Prinsep continued to take an interest in architecture at Benares. Regaining his eyesight, he studied and illustrated temple architecture, designed the new mint building at Benares as well as a church. In 1822 he conducted a survey of Benares and produced an accurate map at the scale of 8 inches to a mile. This map was lithographed in England. He also painted a series of watercolours of monuments and festivities in Benares which were sent to London in 1829 and published between 1830 and 1834 as ''Benares Illustrated, in a Series of Drawings''. He helped design an arched tunnel to drain stagnant lakes and improve the sanitation of the densely populated areas of Benares and built a stone bridge over the Karamansa river. He helped restore the minarets of [[Aurangzeb]] which were in a state of collapse. When he moved to Calcutta, he offered to help complete a canal that had been planned by his brother Thomas but left incomplete by the latter's death in 1830. Thomas's canal linked the River Hooghly with branches of the Ganges further to the east.<ref name=odnb/>

===Asiatic Society of Bengal===
[[File:Bhabru inscription.jpg|thumb|[[Bairat Temple|Bairat]] inscription, on which Prinsep worked to decipher Brahmi. On display in the [[Asiatic Society]]. [https://i0.wp.com/www.kolkataonwheels.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/DSC_0042.jpg See commemorative plate in honour of James Prinsep].]]
In 1829, Captain James D. Herbert started a serial called ''Gleanings in Science''. Captain Herbert, however, was posted as Astronomer to the King of Oudh in 1830, leaving the journal to the editorship of James Prinsep, who was himself the primary contributor to it. In 1832 he succeeded H. H. Wilson as secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and suggested that the Society should take over ''Gleanings in Science'' and produce the ''Journal of the Asiatic Society''. Prinsep became the founding editor of this journal and contributed articles on chemistry, mineralogy, [[numismatics]] and on the study of Indian antiquities. He was also very interested in meteorology and the tabulation of observations and the analysis of weather data from across the country. He worked on the calibration of instruments to measure humidity and atmospheric pressure.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Experimental researches on the depression of the wet-bulb hygrometer|year=1836|pages=396–432|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic05asia#page/396/mode/2up|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|author=Prinsep, J.}}</ref> He continued to edit the journal until his illness in 1838 which led to his leaving India and subsequently his death. Many of the plates in the journal were illustrated by him.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/centenaryreviewo00asiauoft#page/n61/mode/2up| pages=50–51| title=Centenary Review of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. From 1784 to 1883. Part 1. History of the Society.| author=Mitra, Rajendralala| publisher=Asiatic Society of Bengal|year=1885}}</ref>

===Numismatist===
[[File:MenanderCoin.jpg|thumb|left|Prinsep used bilingual [[Indo-Greek]] coins to decipher [[Kharoshthi]]. Obverse and reverse legends in [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] "Basileos Sotēros Menandroy" and [[Kharosthi]] "Maharaja Tratasa Menandrasa": "Of The Saviour King Menander".]]
Coins were Prinsep's first interest. He interpreted coins from [[Bactria]] and [[Kushan Empire|Kushan]] as well as [[Indian coinage|Indian series coins]], including "punch-marked" ones from the [[Indian coinage#Early Common Era—Middle Ages (200 CE—1300 CE)|Gupta series]]. Prinsep suggested that there were three stages; the [[Hammered coinage|punch-marked]], the [[Milled coinage|die-struck]], and the [[Cast coinage|cast coins]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Specimens of Hindu Coins descended from the Parthian type, and of the Ancient Coins of Ceylon|author=Prinsep, J.|pages=288–302| journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=6|issue=1|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic61asia#page/288/mode/1up|year=1837}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| title=Bactrian and Indo-Scythic Coins-continued|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic02asia#page/405/mode/1up|author=Prinsep, J.|pages=405–416|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=2|year=1833}}</ref> Prinsep also reported upon the native [[Punch-marked coins|punch-marked]] coinage,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic01asia#page/393/mode/1up|title=On the Ancient Roman Coins in the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society|author=Prinsep, J.|pages=392–408 |year=1832|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume =1}}</ref> noting that they were better known in eastern India.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/lecturesonancien00bhaniala#page/38/mode/2up/|pages=38–42|title=Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics. The Carmichael Lectures.|author=Bhandarkar, DR|year=1921|publisher=University of Calcutta}}</ref>

===Brahmi script philologist===
[[File:Danam letters on Sanchi inscription.jpg|thumb|The last two letters at the end of this inscriptions in [[Brahmi]] were guessed to form the word "dǎnam" (donation), which appears at the end of most inscriptions at [[Sanchi]] and [[Bharhut]]. This hypothesis permitted the complete decipherment of the [[Brahmi]] script by James Prinsep in 1837.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Salomon |first1=Richard |title=Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195356663 |page=207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYrG07qQDxkC&pg=PA206 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Charles |title=Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor |date=2012 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=978-1-4087-0388-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4vHjbUtf_4C&pg=PT77 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Heinz |first1=Carolyn Brown |last2=Murray |first2=Jeremy A. |title=Asian Cultural Traditions: Second Edition |date=2018 |publisher=Waveland Press |isbn=978-1-4786-3764-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n9tdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 |language=en}}</ref>]]
[[File:Brahmi script consonants according to James Prinsep March 1838.jpg|thumb|Consonants of the [[Brahmi script]], and their evolution down to modern [[Devanagari]], according to James Prinsep, as published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in March 1838.<ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |date=1838 |publisher=Calcutta : Printed at the Baptist Mission Press [etc.] |url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic775asia#page/n101}}</ref>]]
As a result of Prinsep's work as an editor of the Asiatic Society's journal, coins and copies of inscriptions were transmitted to him from all over India, to be deciphered, translated, and published.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic62asia#page/777/mode/1up|title=Account of an Inscription found by Mr. H S Boulderson, in the neighbourhood of Bareilly|author=Prinsep, J|pages=772–786|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=6|issue=2|year=1837}}</ref>

The first successful attempts at deciphering Brahmi were made in 1836 by Norwegian scholar [[Christian Lassen]], who used the bilingual Greek-Brahmi coins of [[Indo-Greek]] kings [[Agathocles of Bactria|Agathocles]] and [[Pantaleon]] to correctly identify several Brahmi letters.<ref name=RHP>{{cite book |last1=Ray |first1=Himanshu Prabha |title=Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections |date=2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781351252744 |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiBBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT181 |language=en}}</ref> The task was then completed by Prinsep, who was able to identify the rest of the Brahmi characters, with the help of [[Alexander Cunningham]].<ref name=RHP/>

In a series of results that he published between 1836–38 Prinsep was able to decipher the inscriptions on rock edicts found around India. The edicts in [[Brahmi script]] mentioned a King ''[[Devanampriya]] [[Priyadasi|Piyadasi]]'' which Prinsep initially assumed was a Sri Lankan king.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic62asia#page/566/mode/1up|title=Interpretation of the most ancient of inscriptions on the pillar called lat of Feroz Shah, near Delhi, and of the Allahabad, Radhia and Mattiah pillar, or lat inscriptions which agree therewith|author=Prinsep, J|pages=566–609|year=1837|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society|volume=6}}</ref> He was then able to associate this title with [[Ashoka]] on the basis of [[Pali script]] from Sri Lanka communicated to him by [[George Turnour]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic62asia#page/790/mode/1up/|title=Further elucidation of the lat or Silasthambha inscriptions from various sources|author=Prinsep, J.|pages=790–797|journal=Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of London|year=1837}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Note on the Facsimiles of the various Inscriptions on the ancient column at Allahabad, retaken by Captain Edward Smith, Engineers.|author=Prinsep, J|pages=963–980|year=1837|journal=Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume =6|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic62asia#page/963/mode/1up}}</ref> These scripts were found on the pillars at Delhi and Allahabad and on rock inscriptions from both sides of India, and also the Kharosthi script in the coins and inscriptions of the north-west. The idea of ''Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum'', a collection of Indian epigraphy, was first suggested by Prinsep and the work was formally begun by Sir [[Alexander Cunningham]] in 1877.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/inscriptionsaso00hultgoog#page/n7/mode/2up|title=Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Volume 1. Inscritions of Asoka.|year=1877|author=Cunningham, A|publisher=Government of India|place=Calcutta}}</ref> His studies on inscriptions helped in the establishment of date of Indian dynasties based on references to Antiochus and other Greeks.<ref name=odnb />
Prinsep's research and writing were not confined to India. Prinsep also delved into the early history of Afghanistan, producing several works that touched on archaeological finds in that country. Many of the collections were sent by Alexander Burnes.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic02asia#page/310/mode/1up|pages=310–318| title=Note on Lieutenant Burnes' Collection of Ancient coins|author=Prinsep, J|year=1833|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal}}</ref> After James Prinsep's death, his brother [[Henry Thoby Prinsep]] published in 1844 a volume exploring the numismatist's work on collections made from Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/noteonhistorica01pringoog#page/n8/mode/2up|title=Note on the Historical Results deducible from Recent Discoveries in Afghanistan|author=Prinsep, Henry Thoby |publisher=W. H. Allen & Co.|place=London|year=1844}}</ref>

=== Other pursuits ===
A talented artist and draftsman, Prinsep made meticulous sketches of ancient monuments, astronomy, instruments, fossils and other subjects. He was also very interested in understanding weather. He designed a modified barometer that automatically compensated for temperature.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Prinsep, J|year=1833|title=Description of a Compensation Barometer, and Observations on Wet Barometers|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic02asia#page/258/mode/1up|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=2|pages=258–262}}</ref> He maintained meteorological registers, apart from supplying barometers to volunteers and graphically summarising the records of others.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Prinsep, J|year=1828|title=Abstract of a Meteorological Journal Kept at Benares during the Years 1824, 1825, and 1826|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|volume=118|pages=251–255|doi=10.1098/rstl.1828.0013|s2cid=186210023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Prinsep, J|year=1836|title=A comparative view of the daily range of the Barometer in different parts of India|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic05asia#page/816/mode/1up|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=5|pages=816–827}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Prinsep, J|year=1832|title=Observations of the Transit of Mercury|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic01asia#page/408/mode/1up|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=1|pages=408–411}}</ref> He conducted experiments on practical methods to prevent rusting of iron surfaces.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Prinsep, J.|year=1834|title=Experiments on the Preservation of Sheet Iron from Rust in India|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic03asia#page/191/mode/1up|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=3|pages=191–192}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Prinsep married Harriet Sophia Aubert, elder daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremiah Aubert (grandson of [[Alexander Aubert]]) of the Bengal army and his wife Hannah, at the cathedral in Calcutta on 25 April 1835. They had a daughter Eliza in 1837 who was to be the only child to survive.<ref name="odnb2">{{cite book|chapter-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22812|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|author=Losty, JP|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|chapter=Prinsep, James (1799–1840)|chapter-url-access=subscription }}{{ODNBsub}}</ref><ref name="memoir2">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/essaysonindiana00pringoog#page/n24/mode/1up|title=Essays On Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, And Palæographic, Of The Late James Prinsep, F.R.S., Secretary To The Asiatic Society Of Bengal; To Which Are Added His Useful Tables, Illustrative Of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, Etc. Edited, With Notes, And Additional Matter, By Edward Thomas, Late Of The Bengal Civil Service; Member Of The Asiatic Societies Of Calcutta, London, And Paris. In Two Volumes. - Vol. I.|author=Prinsep, James|publisher=John Murray|year=1858|place=London}}</ref>

He was elected a member to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1839.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1839&year-max=1839&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-09|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Calcutta, Prinsep's Ghat.JPG|thumb|left|[[Prinsep Ghat]] at [[Kolkata]] (Calcutta)]]
[[File:JamesPrinsep.jpg|right|thumb|Portrait by [[Colesworthey Grant]] (c. 1838)]]
Prinsep literally worked himself to death. From 1838 he began to suffer from recurrent headaches and sickness. It was initially thought to be related to a liver (bilious) condition and he was forced to get away from his studies and left for England in November 1838 aboard the ''Herefordshire''.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Anonymous|year=1839|title=Preface|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=7|issue=1|page=x-xi|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic71asia#page/n17/mode/2up}}</ref> He arrived in England in poor condition and did not recover. He died on 22 April 1840 in his sister Sophia Haldimand's home at 31 Belgrave Square of a "[[softening of the brain]]".<ref name=odnb/> A genus of plant ''[[Prinsepia]]'' was named after him by the botanist [[John Forbes Royle]] in 1839 in appreciation of his work.<ref>{{cite book|title=Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains. Volume 1|author=Royle, JF|publisher=W H Allen and Co.|place=London|year=1839|url=https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753002075106#page/206/mode/1up}}</ref>

News of his death reached India and several memorials were commissioned. A bust at the Asiatic Society was to be made by [[Francis Leggatt Chantrey|Francis Chantrey]] but was finished by [[Henry Weekes]]. [[Prinsep Ghat]], a Palladian porch on the bank of the [[Hooghly River]] designed by W. Fitzgerald in 1843, was erected in his memory by the citizens of Calcutta.<ref name=odnb/><ref name=firminger/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/sketchesofsomedi00laur#page/170/mode/2up|pages=171–174|title=Sketches of some distinguished Anglo-Indians|author=Laurie, W.F.B.|year=1887|publisher=W.H.Allen & Co.|place=London}}</ref> Part of his original collection of ancient coins and artefacts from the Indian subcontinent is now in the [[British Museum]], London.<ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?people=137919&peoA=137919-3-17 British Museum Collection]</ref>
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==See also==
* [[William Jones (philologist)|William Jones]]
* [[Allahabad Pillar]]

==References==
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==Other sources==
* {{cite journal|author=Prinsep, J. |title=Interpretation of the Most Ancient of the Inscriptions on the Pillar Called the Lát of Feroz Sháh, near Delhi, and of the Allahabad Rodhia and Mattiah Pillar, or Lát, Inscriptions Which Agree Therewith|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|year=1837|volume= 6|pages= 566–609|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic62asia#page/566/mode/2up}}
* Kejariwal, O. P. (1993), ''The Prinseps of India: A Personal Quest''. ''The Indian Archives'', 42 (1-2)
* Allbrook, Malcolm (2008), ''[https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/366264/Allbrook_2009_02Thesis.pdf?sequence=1 'Imperial Family': The Prinseps, Empire and Colonial Government in India and Australia]'', Ph.D. thesis, [[Griffith University]], Australia.
* James Prinsep and O. P. Kejariwal (2009), '' "Benares Illustrated" and "James Prinsep and Benares" '', [[Pilgrims Book House|Pilgrims Publishing]], {{ISBN|81-7769-400-6}}.

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* [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/476995/James-Prinsep "James Prinsep" entry in Encyclopædia Britannica]
* [[Edward Thomas (antiquarian)|Thomas, Edward]], editor (1858) ''Essays On Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, And Palæographic, Of The Late James Prinsep, F.R.S., Secretary To The Asiatic Society Of Bengal; To Which Are Added His Useful Tables, Illustrative Of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, Etc.'' [https://archive.org/stream/essaysonindiana00pringoog Volume 1] [https://archive.org/stream/essaysonindiana02pringoog#page Volume 2]

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