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| Title | Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and Essays Trübner's oriental series |
| Author | Sir Monier Monier-Williams |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Trübner and Company, 1879 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 365 pages |
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