Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon Including AllBritish India, the Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Indian StatesJ. Murray, 1952 |
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Page xxxi
... taken by Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal in 1415. It was taken from the Visigoths in A.D. 711 by Tarik Ibn Zayad — Jab - al Tarik = Gibraltar — and retaken by Castile , 1309-33 , but not finally wrested from the Moors till 1503 ...
... taken by Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal in 1415. It was taken from the Visigoths in A.D. 711 by Tarik Ibn Zayad — Jab - al Tarik = Gibraltar — and retaken by Castile , 1309-33 , but not finally wrested from the Moors till 1503 ...
Page 333
... taken part in both World Wars . Jind , the second of the Phulkian States , has an area of 1299 sq . m . The town is on the Delhi - Bhatinda- Lahore line ( p . 344 ) , but the capi- tal is Sangrur , on the Ludhiana- Jakhal Railway ( p ...
... taken part in both World Wars . Jind , the second of the Phulkian States , has an area of 1299 sq . m . The town is on the Delhi - Bhatinda- Lahore line ( p . 344 ) , but the capi- tal is Sangrur , on the Ludhiana- Jakhal Railway ( p ...
Page 609
... taken at Amboyna in 1810 ; tiger- headed guns taken at Seringa- patam in 1792 ; the six keys of Pondicherry , taken in 1778 ; and a projectile , which , issuing from the cannon , opens out like a double - bladed sword . N. of the Fort ...
... taken at Amboyna in 1810 ; tiger- headed guns taken at Seringa- patam in 1792 ; the six keys of Pondicherry , taken in 1778 ; and a projectile , which , issuing from the cannon , opens out like a double - bladed sword . N. of the Fort ...
Contents
LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS xi | xi |
INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION | xvii |
2 AIR ROUTES TO INDIA AND INTERNAL | xxviii |
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