History of IndiaW. Collins Sons, 1876 - 240 pages |
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... mean- while , retreat before it to the more inaccessible regions of its hills and forests , much after the manner in which so many of the Celtic inhabitants of this island withdrew , before the onward pressure of the Saxon invaders , to ...
... mean- while , retreat before it to the more inaccessible regions of its hills and forests , much after the manner in which so many of the Celtic inhabitants of this island withdrew , before the onward pressure of the Saxon invaders , to ...
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... means were adopted to mitigate the horrors of the battle - field , and to relieve a conquered people from the usual consequences of defeat . The vast majority of the Hindu people belang to the religion known as Brahaminism or Hinduism ...
... means were adopted to mitigate the horrors of the battle - field , and to relieve a conquered people from the usual consequences of defeat . The vast majority of the Hindu people belang to the religion known as Brahaminism or Hinduism ...
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... means of his elephants , overthrew his adversary with great slaughter . Semiramis fled with an army diminished to one- fourth its original force ; and neither she nor any of her successors again attempted an expedition in this direction ...
... means of his elephants , overthrew his adversary with great slaughter . Semiramis fled with an army diminished to one- fourth its original force ; and neither she nor any of her successors again attempted an expedition in this direction ...
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... means of them , we have been made acquainted with the interesting fact that the condition of Hindu society in these early days was precisely the same as when intercourse with the west first began . The history of the country after the ...
... means of them , we have been made acquainted with the interesting fact that the condition of Hindu society in these early days was precisely the same as when intercourse with the west first began . The history of the country after the ...
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... mean order . Re- bellion followed rebellion in rapid sequence ; while the depredations of invaders taxed his utmost resources . He , however , proved himself equal to every emergency ; and when , after a long reign of fifty years , he ...
... mean order . Re- bellion followed rebellion in rapid sequence ; while the depredations of invaders taxed his utmost resources . He , however , proved himself equal to every emergency ; and when , after a long reign of fifty years , he ...
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administration affairs Afghan alliance Ameer ancient annexation army attack Bengal Berar Bombay Brahmins British Burmese Bussy by-and-bye Calcutta capital capture Carnatic chief chieftains Circars Clive cloth coast Colonel commander Company Company's considerable countrymen court Deccan defeated Delhi despatched district dominions Dupleix emperor empire enemy English European expedition favour Fcap force fortress French Ganges garrison governor governor-general Gwalior hands Hastings Hindu Holkar honour Hooghley Hyder Ally Hyderabad India Indus Jumna Jung Khan Kistna land Lord Lord Minto Madras Mahomed Mahratta Meer Jaffier ment military Mogul Mohammedan mutiny Mysore nabob Nana nation native nizam Nuncomar operations Oude peace peninsula Peshwa Pindarees Pondicherry portion position possession prince province Punjaub rajah rebels reign river Rohilcund Rughoba Runjeet Singh Sahib Salabat Salabat Jung Scindia Sepoy settlement Shah siege Sikh soubadah sovereign struggle success Suraj-ud-Dowlah Sutlej territory tion Tippoo Tippoo Sahib treaty troops victory Vindhya vizier
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Page 211 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
Page 101 - Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair valleys and cities of Rohilcund. The whole country was in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had, for shameful lucre, sold their substance, and their blood, and the honour of their wives and daughters.
Page 117 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried...
Page 211 - We know and respect the feelings of attachment with which the natives of India regard the lands inherited by them from their ancestors, and we desire to protect them in all rights connected therewith, subject to the equitable demands "of the State ; and we will that, generally, in framing and administering the law, due regard be paid to the ancient rights, usages, and customs of India.
Page 215 - The people of India, when we subdued them, were ten times as numerous as the Americans whom the Spaniards vanquished, and were at the same time quite as highly civilized as the victorious Spaniards. They had reared cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo, and buildings more beautiful and costly than the cathedral of Seville.
Page 117 - In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 117 - He had patronised learning with the judicious liberality of Cosmo. He had been attacked by the most formidable combination of enemies that ever sought the destruction of a single victim; and over that combination, after a struggle of ten years, he had triumphed. He had at length gone down to his grave in the fulness of age, in peace, after so many troubles, in honour, after so much obloquy.
Page 69 - ... Napoleon. The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
Page 14 - ... higher regions are poured down in such profusion that the river-beds are unable to contain them. They accordingly overflow, and convert the ground into a species of swamp, which, acted on by the burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath a mass of dark and dismal foliage, while long grass and prickly shrubs shoot up so densely and so close as to form an almost impenetrable barrier. It...