Wilson in the preface to their great work. He was interested in Ayurveda and traditional Indian medical and surgical practices. He compiled the local practices observed for cholera and leprosy in his publications in the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. In 1827 Wilson published Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus, which contained a very full survey of the Indian drama, translations of six complete plays and short accounts of twenty-three others. His Mackenzie Collection (1828) is a descriptive catalogue of the extensive collection of Oriental, especially South Indian, manuscripts and antiquities made by Colonel Colin Mackenzie, then deposited partly in the India Office, London (now part of the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library) and partly at Madras (Chennai). He also wrote a Historical Sketch of the First Burmese War, with Documents, Political and Geographical (1827), a Review of the External Commerce of Bengal from 1813 to 1828 (1830), a translation of Vishnu Purana (1840), and a History of British India from 1805 to 1835, (1844–1848) in continuation of James Mill's 1818 The History of British India. Publications 1813 by Kālidāsa () 1819 () 1827 Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus , (Revised Second Edition, 1835 , ) 1827 1828 , co-authored with Colin Mackenzie 1828 Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus, in Asiatic Researches, Volume XVI, Calcutta. () 1840 1841 Travels in the Himalyayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab... , 1841 1841 1845–48 The history of British India from 1805–1835 , , 1850–88 Rig-veda Sanhitá : a collection of ancient Hindu hymns , , , , , 1852 1855 1860 1862-71 Posthumous Collected Edition: Works by the Late Horace Hayman Wilson , , , , , , , , , , , Principles of Hindu and Mohammedan Law Metaphysics of Puranas Notes References 1786 births 1860 deaths British Indologists Sanskrit grammarians Sanskrit–English translators Boden Professors of Sanskrit Presidents of the Royal Asiatic Society Presidents of the Royal Numismatic Society Fellows of the Royal Society Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery 19th-century translators