Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... field is , or will ere long have become the herit- age of the encroaching river . The few travellers , who have as yet visited India for the sole avowed purpose of seeing the won- ders of its empire , with good reason , have had little ...
... field is , or will ere long have become the herit- age of the encroaching river . The few travellers , who have as yet visited India for the sole avowed purpose of seeing the won- ders of its empire , with good reason , have had little ...
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... fields of India , and with a disposition to generalize from special occurrences only too common to all discoverers , it ... field , there are three principal varieties , almost the same in every district . The two first are universally ...
... fields of India , and with a disposition to generalize from special occurrences only too common to all discoverers , it ... field , there are three principal varieties , almost the same in every district . The two first are universally ...
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... field with mingled seed , or wearing a mingled garment of woollen and linen . With all of the above the Aumon or late rice crop has little or nothing to do . But there is one feature in its cultivation too curious to be omitted . In ...
... field with mingled seed , or wearing a mingled garment of woollen and linen . With all of the above the Aumon or late rice crop has little or nothing to do . But there is one feature in its cultivation too curious to be omitted . In ...
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... field of wheat , beaten down by the rain and wind of a July hurricane . We can hardly at first comprehend the complacency with which the Bengal cultivator gazes on his tangled crop of rice , level with the water , which its impervious ...
... field of wheat , beaten down by the rain and wind of a July hurricane . We can hardly at first comprehend the complacency with which the Bengal cultivator gazes on his tangled crop of rice , level with the water , which its impervious ...
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... field with its divisional bunds of earth : the tall null jungle is succeeded by the fruit tree : the wretched fisherman's temporary hut of leaves by the neat and regularly raised dwelling place of the grihastha . The earth pays her ...
... field with its divisional bunds of earth : the tall null jungle is succeeded by the fruit tree : the wretched fisherman's temporary hut of leaves by the neat and regularly raised dwelling place of the grihastha . The earth pays her ...
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