Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 pages |
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... language spoken there is Swaheli ( a kind of lingua franca of Eastern Africa ) , which the Khoja speaks as well as his native tongue Kutchi , and to which he adds Gujarātī , Hindūstānī , and a little English . He was accompanied by a ...
... language spoken there is Swaheli ( a kind of lingua franca of Eastern Africa ) , which the Khoja speaks as well as his native tongue Kutchi , and to which he adds Gujarātī , Hindūstānī , and a little English . He was accompanied by a ...
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... language , but here in India I am expected to speak it as if it were my mother - tongue . Once or twice I find myself floundering disastrously , but the polite Pandits help me out of my difficulties . Two hours pass away like lightning ...
... language , but here in India I am expected to speak it as if it were my mother - tongue . Once or twice I find myself floundering disastrously , but the polite Pandits help me out of my difficulties . Two hours pass away like lightning ...
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... language . Thereupon he wrote as follows : Brahmanandam parama - sukhadam kevalam jnāna - mūrtim ekam nityam vimalam aćalam sarva - dhī - sākshi- bhūtam namāmi , that is ( freely translated ) : ' I bow down before the One God , who is ...
... language . Thereupon he wrote as follows : Brahmanandam parama - sukhadam kevalam jnāna - mūrtim ekam nityam vimalam aćalam sarva - dhī - sākshi- bhūtam namāmi , that is ( freely translated ) : ' I bow down before the One God , who is ...
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... language is Gujarātī , but nearly every adult speaks English with fluency , and English is now taught in all their schools . Their Benevolent Institution for the education of at least 1,000 boys and girls is in a noble building , and is ...
... language is Gujarātī , but nearly every adult speaks English with fluency , and English is now taught in all their schools . Their Benevolent Institution for the education of at least 1,000 boys and girls is in a noble building , and is ...
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... language in speaking of the zeal , ability , and devotion displayed by Indian civilians and other executive officials in the present emergency . I have recently been staying with the energetic Col- lector of Salem ( Mr. Longley ) , and ...
... language in speaking of the zeal , ability , and devotion displayed by Indian civilians and other executive officials in the present emergency . I have recently been staying with the energetic Col- lector of Salem ( Mr. Longley ) , and ...
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