The Bengalee: or, Sketches of Society and Manners in the East 2nd ed 1829 Book by was Lt-Col Henry Barkley Henderson [1793-1862] [the first edition was issued in the same year], London: Smith, Elder & Co. with glossary and pp. 6 descriptive list of the publisher’s other publications mostly relating to India. A collection of essays relating to British social life in India written and published in Calcutta periodicals over the years. Many of the essays are in the form of long poems.