Calcutta Review, Volume 32University of Calcutta, 1859 |
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Page 253
... Hindus and Mahomedans , which had no more living influence than the Laws of Justinian ; these laws were allowed just weight , when local custom had not abrogated them , or when they were not themselves opposed to the princi- ples of an ...
... Hindus and Mahomedans , which had no more living influence than the Laws of Justinian ; these laws were allowed just weight , when local custom had not abrogated them , or when they were not themselves opposed to the princi- ples of an ...
Page 254
... Hindu and Mahomedan law , which had long been practically modified by the consent of the people . It is more than probable that these Codes were never in their most palmy days so rigorously carried out , as they have been in the frame ...
... Hindu and Mahomedan law , which had long been practically modified by the consent of the people . It is more than probable that these Codes were never in their most palmy days so rigorously carried out , as they have been in the frame ...
Page 258
... Hindu petitioned loudly and longly that the slaying of cattle by the Mahomedans might be interdicted , the Mahomedans , in the flush of their newly acquired liberty , requested that the Hindus might be forbidden to cut off the heads of ...
... Hindu petitioned loudly and longly that the slaying of cattle by the Mahomedans might be interdicted , the Mahomedans , in the flush of their newly acquired liberty , requested that the Hindus might be forbidden to cut off the heads of ...
Page 259
... Hindus this is a matter of difficulty . Among the Mahomedans it is wonderful how the race of the man betters itself ... Hindu an- cestors were Rajpoots , and not " dealers in wine . " The Civil Court becomes the favourite arena of the ...
... Hindus this is a matter of difficulty . Among the Mahomedans it is wonderful how the race of the man betters itself ... Hindu an- cestors were Rajpoots , and not " dealers in wine . " The Civil Court becomes the favourite arena of the ...
Page 263
... Hindu it is a dishonour and sorrow to be childless the poor cannot afford it : it is only among the wild beasts of the pseudo - aristocracy , that the custom prevails to any extent , and they , as a class , are being extinguished . A ...
... Hindu it is a dishonour and sorrow to be childless the poor cannot afford it : it is only among the wild beasts of the pseudo - aristocracy , that the custom prevails to any extent , and they , as a class , are being extinguished . A ...
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