The Three Presidencies of India: A History of the Rise and Progress of the British Indian Possessions, from the Earliest Records to the Present TimeIngram, Cooke, and Company, 1853 - 492 pages |
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... districts into which Hindostan has been divided . These divisions are four in number : the Deccan , south of the Vindya Mountains ; and to the north of the range , the Delta of the Ganges , Central India , and the Delta of the Indus ...
... districts into which Hindostan has been divided . These divisions are four in number : the Deccan , south of the Vindya Mountains ; and to the north of the range , the Delta of the Ganges , Central India , and the Delta of the Indus ...
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... districts of Bengal , Behar , Tirhoot , Oude , Rohilcund , and Allahabad . It is the most populous and fertile portion of British India , containing about sixty millions of inhabitants , and , with the exception of the kingdom of Oude ...
... districts of Bengal , Behar , Tirhoot , Oude , Rohilcund , and Allahabad . It is the most populous and fertile portion of British India , containing about sixty millions of inhabitants , and , with the exception of the kingdom of Oude ...
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... district of Arracan , stretching from the north - eastern extremity of the bay of Bengal to the limits of the late Burmese province of Pegu . The features of the country , the habits of the people , and the natural productions , so ...
... district of Arracan , stretching from the north - eastern extremity of the bay of Bengal to the limits of the late Burmese province of Pegu . The features of the country , the habits of the people , and the natural productions , so ...
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... districts . Intimately associated with granite , they break with ranges of hills on the low lands of Salem , the valley of the Cavery , and north of it from the table - lands of Mysore , the Baramhall , Bellary district , part of ...
... districts . Intimately associated with granite , they break with ranges of hills on the low lands of Salem , the valley of the Cavery , and north of it from the table - lands of Mysore , the Baramhall , Bellary district , part of ...
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... districts of Hydrabad , Nagpore , and the Southern Mahratta country , thus including the whole plateau of the Deccan . It is not so common in Mysore , but is met with in continuous sheets of from six to twenty feet thick below the Salem ...
... districts of Hydrabad , Nagpore , and the Southern Mahratta country , thus including the whole plateau of the Deccan . It is not so common in Mysore , but is met with in continuous sheets of from six to twenty feet thick below the Salem ...
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