Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, Volume 14Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1834 |
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Page 5
... period ; it required three years of unremitting labour to complete it , and the expense was enormous . At length , in 1820 , during the administration of Sir Charles Metcalfe , the whole was finished . All the inhabitants of the city ...
... period ; it required three years of unremitting labour to complete it , and the expense was enormous . At length , in 1820 , during the administration of Sir Charles Metcalfe , the whole was finished . All the inhabitants of the city ...
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... period in which no stranger of rank is a visitant to the imperial city , gaities of every kind are in a state of suspension . Whenever any great person is passing through Delhi , the residency is always a scene of festivity to those who ...
... period in which no stranger of rank is a visitant to the imperial city , gaities of every kind are in a state of suspension . Whenever any great person is passing through Delhi , the residency is always a scene of festivity to those who ...
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... period of its duration . The rains and the cold sea- son are both very agreeable ; but there is one plague from which the city and its environs never are exempt , that of flies , - which come in armies similar to those which invaded ...
... period of its duration . The rains and the cold sea- son are both very agreeable ; but there is one plague from which the city and its environs never are exempt , that of flies , - which come in armies similar to those which invaded ...
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... period of fourteen years in building , and to have cost eighteen crores of rupees , in addition to fifty - six lacs spent in levelling the side of the hill on which it is built . The next temple to be described is the northern one ...
... period of fourteen years in building , and to have cost eighteen crores of rupees , in addition to fifty - six lacs spent in levelling the side of the hill on which it is built . The next temple to be described is the northern one ...
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... period when the Mahommedan power was great in India . All the figures are throughout represented with beards , which ... periods , and that they chiefly come from Guze- rat , Márwár , Ajmere , Malwa , and Bombay , all of which , except ...
... period when the Mahommedan power was great in India . All the figures are throughout represented with beards , which ... periods , and that they chiefly come from Guze- rat , Márwár , Ajmere , Malwa , and Bombay , all of which , except ...
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