Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 pages |
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... mind that nearly a hundred steam dredging - machines were in constant operation , for the effective working of which a large number of men and boys with interdependent duties was indispensable . And yet , after all , notwithstanding ...
... mind that nearly a hundred steam dredging - machines were in constant operation , for the effective working of which a large number of men and boys with interdependent duties was indispensable . And yet , after all , notwithstanding ...
Page 27
... mind , to be deep , must be made by scenes actually witnessed . There is an Eastern saying that the distance between the ear and the eye is very small , but the difference between hearing and seeing is very great . Much information can ...
... mind , to be deep , must be made by scenes actually witnessed . There is an Eastern saying that the distance between the ear and the eye is very small , but the difference between hearing and seeing is very great . Much information can ...
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... mind that the actual tillers of the ground in an Indian village constitute at least three - fourths of the population . In Gujarat these cultivators are called Kumbi ( Sanskrit Kutumbi The Villages and Rural Population of India.
... mind that the actual tillers of the ground in an Indian village constitute at least three - fourths of the population . In Gujarat these cultivators are called Kumbi ( Sanskrit Kutumbi The Villages and Rural Population of India.
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... mind that neither are the Parsi survivors permitted to look at the swoop of the heaven - sent birds . Why , then , should we be surprised if they prefer the more rapid to the more lingering operation ? and which of the two systems ...
... mind that neither are the Parsi survivors permitted to look at the swoop of the heaven - sent birds . Why , then , should we be surprised if they prefer the more rapid to the more lingering operation ? and which of the two systems ...
Page 104
... mind that when a man dies his sthula - sarira or ' gross body ' is burned , but his soul quits it with the linga- Sarira or subtile body , ' sometimes described as angushtha- matra , of the size of a thumb , ' and remains hovering near ...
... mind that when a man dies his sthula - sarira or ' gross body ' is burned , but his soul quits it with the linga- Sarira or subtile body , ' sometimes described as angushtha- matra , of the size of a thumb , ' and remains hovering near ...
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