Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales

Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales (mostly HG Quaritch Wales, born 1900 in London, † 1983 ) was an English Orientalist, which dealt mainly with the cultural history of India, Burma and Siam.

Quaritch Wales was the grandson of Bernard Quaritch, an emigrant from Germany founder of the eponymous bookshop and publishing house in London ( 1847). He made ​​numerous trips to India and Southeast Asia. He observed, inter alia, In 1930 the Rocking ceremony (Sao Ching Cha ) at Wat Suthat, Bangkok and described it in his book, Siamese State Ceremonies: their history and function; He also described the now largely lost rituals associated with pregnancy and birth in Siam.

From 1950 to 1971 Quaritch Wales was on the Board of Quaritch publisher.

Publications

• Universe Around Them: Cosmology and Cosmic Renewal in Indianized South -east Asia. ( Probsthain 's oriental series). Probsthain 1978. ISBN 0,853,820,066th
• Siamese State Ceremonies: their history and function. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1931.
• The Making of Greater India: a study in Southeast Asian culture change. 3 A. London: Quaritch, 1974 ISBN 0853880921. .
• Early Burma, Old Siam: a comparative commentary. London: Quaritch, 1973 ISBN 0853880867. .
• The mountain of God: A study in early religion and kingship. London: Quaritch, 1953.
• Prehistory and religion in South -east Asia. London: Quaritch in 1957.
• Ancient South -east Asian warfare. London:. Quaritch, 1952 ( long a standard work )
• The Indianization of China and of South East Asia. London: Quaritch, 1967 ISBN 0853880417. .
• Angkor and Rome: A historical comparison. London: Quaritch 1965.
• Divination in thailand the hopes and fears of a South East Asian People. Curzon Press 1981.
• Ancient Siamese government and administration. [ Repr d ed London 1934 ] Paragon 1965.
• Dvaravati: Earliest Kingdom of Siam. London: Quaritch, 1969 ISBN 0853880026. .
• The exploration of Sri Deva: An ancient Indian city in Indochina. India Society, 1937.