The Splendour that was ʾInd: A Survey of Indian Culture and Civilisation (from the Earliest Times to the Death of Emperor Aurangzeb)D. B. Taraporevala, 1930 - 236 pages |
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Page 160
... centuries had to keep incessantly in arms against a relentless foe - enemy to all that they held in love , esteem and veneration . Perhaps , also the south was beginning to be resurgent , and paying off to the north its debt of ...
... centuries had to keep incessantly in arms against a relentless foe - enemy to all that they held in love , esteem and veneration . Perhaps , also the south was beginning to be resurgent , and paying off to the north its debt of ...
Page 179
... centuries to come , were to form such distinctive features in mosque - building and mausoleums . The Jami Masjid of Jaunpur dates from the middle of the fifteenth century . Based on a plinth raised some 20 ft . from the ground level ...
... centuries to come , were to form such distinctive features in mosque - building and mausoleums . The Jami Masjid of Jaunpur dates from the middle of the fifteenth century . Based on a plinth raised some 20 ft . from the ground level ...
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... centuries before could have remained ignorant of such a regular , annual phenomenon as the south - west monsoon in the Indian Seas , and could thus have failed to make use of it . There is , in fact , positive evidence to show that ...
... centuries before could have remained ignorant of such a regular , annual phenomenon as the south - west monsoon in the Indian Seas , and could thus have failed to make use of it . There is , in fact , positive evidence to show that ...
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