The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... half - bound . A COLLECTION OF SOME OF THE MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS ON ORIENTAL SUBJECTS , Published on various occasions . By EDWARD THOMAS , Esq . , late of the East India Company's Bengal Civil Service . CONTENTS . - On Ancient Indian ...
... half - bound . A COLLECTION OF SOME OF THE MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS ON ORIENTAL SUBJECTS , Published on various occasions . By EDWARD THOMAS , Esq . , late of the East India Company's Bengal Civil Service . CONTENTS . - On Ancient Indian ...
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... Half a century ago , there was a dock - yard at Titahgur . The Dutch also brought their ships up to Chinsurah . Not only is the river silting up , but those were the days of small Portuguese carracks and Dutch galleons , and not of ...
... Half a century ago , there was a dock - yard at Titahgur . The Dutch also brought their ships up to Chinsurah . Not only is the river silting up , but those were the days of small Portuguese carracks and Dutch galleons , and not of ...
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... half ago , its rural precincts formed the Tusculum of that old Anglo - Indian patriarch , Mr Job Charnock , the founder of Calcutta . He used to come hither not so much to avoid the dust and bother of his bustling capital , as to be ...
... half ago , its rural precincts formed the Tusculum of that old Anglo - Indian patriarch , Mr Job Charnock , the founder of Calcutta . He used to come hither not so much to avoid the dust and bother of his bustling capital , as to be ...
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... half by assault . More than a thousand Portuguese were slaughtered , and 4400 men , women , and children were made prisoners of war . Out of three hundred and four vessels of all sizes , only three made their escape . The best - looking ...
... half by assault . More than a thousand Portuguese were slaughtered , and 4400 men , women , and children were made prisoners of war . Out of three hundred and four vessels of all sizes , only three made their escape . The best - looking ...
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... half a lac . ' If one were to comment upon this now , he must suspect the Rajah to have found a kinship between the two , or he would not have confounded Pundits with monkeys . February 13th . - In the last century the Ganges flowed ...
... half a lac . ' If one were to comment upon this now , he must suspect the Rajah to have found a kinship between the two , or he would not have confounded Pundits with monkeys . February 13th . - In the last century the Ganges flowed ...
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