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... hand knowledge and observation . They picture India to us as it presents itself in kaleidoscopic variety to those who have given it their energies , who have guided its development , and lived in its life from the dim ages of antiquity ...
... hand knowledge and observation . They picture India to us as it presents itself in kaleidoscopic variety to those who have given it their energies , who have guided its development , and lived in its life from the dim ages of antiquity ...
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... hand , India at this moment presents the curious spectacle that from end to end of the country , outside the Presi- dency towns , the administration of justice in the courts of first instance is wholly in native and non - Christian hands ...
... hand , India at this moment presents the curious spectacle that from end to end of the country , outside the Presi- dency towns , the administration of justice in the courts of first instance is wholly in native and non - Christian hands ...
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... hands of the Marathas when the chance arose . It was natural that each of these great elements of native Indian society should strive to assert itself . Their beliefs , principles , and aims being essentially inconsistent , it was ...
... hands of the Marathas when the chance arose . It was natural that each of these great elements of native Indian society should strive to assert itself . Their beliefs , principles , and aims being essentially inconsistent , it was ...
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... hand , there is a fiercely hot season divided from a piercingly cold one by a few months of rain of uncertain intensity and duration . One part of India consists of vast plains of rice , another of small patches of arable land cleared ...
... hand , there is a fiercely hot season divided from a piercingly cold one by a few months of rain of uncertain intensity and duration . One part of India consists of vast plains of rice , another of small patches of arable land cleared ...
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... hand , it gives no chance to the individual , since its essence is the exaction of conformity from all alike . Obviously , moreover , wherever the sanction of the popular creed is invoked , the inclination to change is at a considerable ...
... hand , it gives no chance to the individual , since its essence is the exaction of conformity from all alike . Obviously , moreover , wherever the sanction of the popular creed is invoked , the inclination to change is at a considerable ...
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