Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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... Brahmin Labourers- Patna - Bankipoor - Granary - Hackeries - Dinapoor- Cantonment - Digah Farm - Chupra - Floating Shops- Fort - Native Christians - Schools - Curreem Musseeh- Varieties of Complexion CHAPTER XII . BUXAR TO BENARES ...
... Brahmin Labourers- Patna - Bankipoor - Granary - Hackeries - Dinapoor- Cantonment - Digah Farm - Chupra - Floating Shops- Fort - Native Christians - Schools - Curreem Musseeh- Varieties of Complexion CHAPTER XII . BUXAR TO BENARES ...
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... as beef ; but from other notions of the hallowed or the polluted nature of particular viands . Thus many Brahmins eat both fish and kid . The Rajpoots , besides these , eat mutton , NATIVES . venison , or goat's flesh . Some castes.
... as beef ; but from other notions of the hallowed or the polluted nature of particular viands . Thus many Brahmins eat both fish and kid . The Rajpoots , besides these , eat mutton , NATIVES . venison , or goat's flesh . Some castes.
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... merely the dif- ference of exposure , since this variety of tint is visible in the fishermen who are naked all alike . Nor does it depend on caste , since very high caste 10 DIAMOND HARBOUR . Brahmins are sometimes black , while.
... merely the dif- ference of exposure , since this variety of tint is visible in the fishermen who are naked all alike . Nor does it depend on caste , since very high caste 10 DIAMOND HARBOUR . Brahmins are sometimes black , while.
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... Brahmins are sometimes black , while Pariahs are comparatively fair . It seems , therefore , to be an accidental difference , like that of light and dark complexions in Europe , though where so much of the body is exposed to sight , it ...
... Brahmins are sometimes black , while Pariahs are comparatively fair . It seems , therefore , to be an accidental difference , like that of light and dark complexions in Europe , though where so much of the body is exposed to sight , it ...
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... Brahmins have prophesied that it will rise fourteen cubits higher , and drown all Calcutta ; they might as well have said all Bengal , since the province has scarcely any single eminence so high above the river . Whenever we see the ...
... Brahmins have prophesied that it will rise fourteen cubits higher , and drown all Calcutta ; they might as well have said all Bengal , since the province has scarcely any single eminence so high above the river . Whenever we see the ...
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