The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 6Trübner & Company, 1886 |
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... existence of uncon- trollable meandering . By centuries of alluvial deposit , the Brahmaputra has raised its banks and channel in parts of the Assam valley to a higher level than the surrounding country . Beneath either bank lies a low ...
... existence of uncon- trollable meandering . By centuries of alluvial deposit , the Brahmaputra has raised its banks and channel in parts of the Assam valley to a higher level than the surrounding country . Beneath either bank lies a low ...
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... existence of 860 miles , with a catchment basin of 118,000 square miles , and starts from an elevation at its source of 10,849 feet above sea - level . The Ganges and its principal tributaries are treated of in The Imperial Gazetteer of ...
... existence of 860 miles , with a catchment basin of 118,000 square miles , and starts from an elevation at its source of 10,849 feet above sea - level . The Ganges and its principal tributaries are treated of in The Imperial Gazetteer of ...
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... existence becomes hard . At half an acre a - piece that struggle is terribly hard . In such Districts , a good harvest yields just sufficient food for the people ; and thousands of lives depend each autumn on a few inches more or less ...
... existence becomes hard . At half an acre a - piece that struggle is terribly hard . In such Districts , a good harvest yields just sufficient food for the people ; and thousands of lives depend each autumn on a few inches more or less ...
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... - ments . The According to the Kandh theory of existence , a state of war might lawfully be presumed against all neighbours with THE KANDHS . 61 whom no express agreement had been 60 THE NON - ARYAN RACES . Police and Jails, 472.
... - ments . The According to the Kandh theory of existence , a state of war might lawfully be presumed against all neighbours with THE KANDHS . 61 whom no express agreement had been 60 THE NON - ARYAN RACES . Police and Jails, 472.
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... existence is still recog- nised by the Criminal Tribes Act , passed so lately as 1871 , and still enforced within certain localities of Oudh and Northern India . hill races . The non - Aryan hill races , who appear from Vedic times down ...
... existence is still recog- nised by the Criminal Tribes Act , passed so lately as 1871 , and still enforced within certain localities of Oudh and Northern India . hill races . The non - Aryan hill races , who appear from Vedic times down ...
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Page 83 - Where there is eternal light, in the world where the sun is placed, in that immortal, imperishable world, place me, O Soma. " Where King Vaivasvata reigns, where the secret place of heaven is, where these mighty waters are : there make me immortal.
Page 371 - The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade : — 'tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade: 'tis that must make us a nation in India...
Page 126 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 371 - ... tis that must make us a nation in India. Without that we are but a great number of interlopers, united by His Majesty's royal charter, fit only to trade where nobody of power thinks it their interest to prevent us. And upon this account it is that the wise Dutch, in all their general advices that we have seen, write ten paragraphs concerning their government, their civil and military policy, warfare, and the increase of their revenue, for one paragraph they write concerning trade.
Page 83 - Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who gives life. He who gives strength ; whose blessing all the bright gods desire ; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who through his power is the only king of the breathing and awakening world.
Page 684 - On this point we may refer to our memorandum on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India for 1889.
Page 613 - Several members of one family often work together, earning between them as much as ,£10 a month. The hours of work are from six in the morning to six at night, with an hour allowed in the middle of the day for meals and smoking.
Page 235 - And the report is, that he there found his own arrival anticipated by some who there were acquainted with the gospel of Matthew, to whom Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached, and had left them the gospel of Matthew in the Hebrew, which was also preserved until this time.
Page 358 - Da Gama returned to Europe, bearing with him the following letter from the zamorin to the king of Portugal : " Vasco da Gama, a nobleman of your household, has visited my kingdom and has given me great pleasure. In my kingdom there is abundance of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, pepper, and precious stones. What I seek from thy country is gold, silver, coral, and scarlet.
Page 388 - Warren Hastings, a tried servant of the company, distinguished alike for intelligence, for probity, and for knowledge of Oriental manners, was nominated Governor by the Court of Directors, with express instructions to carry out a predetermined series of reforms. In their own words, the Court had resolved to ' stand "forth as diwdn, and to take upon themselves, by the agency of their own servants, the entire care and administration of the revenues.