The Indian epitome: a list of the principal provinces, cities [&c.] with their pronunciation, &c |
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Afghan annum Aurungabad Aurungzebe Bahar bank Bay of Bengal Benares Berar Bombay bounded Brahma Brahmins Burrampooter Cabool Calcutta Candahar Candeish Cape Comorin Carnatic ceded chief town Circars coast Coromandel current rupee Cutch Deccan district dominions Dowlatabad East India Company empire English European extensive province five rivers fortress Ganges Ghauts Golconda governed Gulf Gulf of Cambay Guzerat Hindoo Hindostan proper Hyderabad Indian Ocean Indus interior province Jumna King Kistna Lahore Lord Madras Mahrattas Malabar Malwa meaning town miles from Calcutta miles in length miles long miles N.W. miles S.S.E. Mogul Mohammedans Moultan mountains of Hindostan Mysore native princes Nerbuddah Nizam Orissa Oude Patna Peninsula Persia Poonah Population presidency pronounced province of Agra province of Allahabad province of Delhi province of Hindostan Punjaub rainy season Rajah Red Sea rupee Sanscrit Scinde seated Seringapatam Shah Aulum Sikhs situated Suez Syllable Tartary termination territories Tippoo Tippoo Sultan town of Hindostan
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Page 3 - This was once the most splendid of all the Indian cities, and now exhibits the most magnificent ruins. In the 17th century the great mogul frequently resided here; his palaces, and those of the Omrahs, were very numerous ; Agra then contained above 60 caravansaries, 800 baths, and 700 mosques.
Page 11 - ... collected. The same calamities were endured in 1761, on the invasion of Abdalla, king of Candahar. In 1803, the Mahrattas, aided by the French...
Page 23 - Ganges, occupying (with the exception of the district of Rampour) all the flat country between that river and the northern mountains, as well as the principal part of that fertile tract, lying between the Ganges and Jumna, known by the name of Dooab, to within 40 miles of the city of Delhi.
Page 32 - A people, it is there felt, that cannot, or does not choose, to protect and avenge it s women is no people at all, and unfit to be served or obeyed. The Mahomedans of every class do not allow their women to be seen by the eye of man, and nowhere is this scruple so strong as in Hindostan, where even Turks and Persians are thought less refined. However dissolute an old Begum may be...
Page 14 - ... guarded by seven stone gateways, at certain distances from each other. The area within is full of noble buildings, reservoirs of water, wells, and cultivated lands ; so that it is really a little district of itself.
Page 30 - Sea and the Persian Gulf, the eastern coast of Africa, India, the kingdom of Siam, Cochin China, Japan, the vast Chinese Empire, the Philippine Islands, Australia, and that vast archipelago towards which the emigration of ancient Europe...
Page 27 - Hindoo princes retain dominion, the ' ryots,' the modern name by which the renters of land are distinguished, hold their possessions by a lease, which may be considered as perpetual, and at a rate fixed by ancient surveys and valuations. This arrangement has been so long established, and accords so well with the ideas of the natives, concerning the distinctions of casts, and the functions allotted to each, that it has been inviolably maintained in all the provinces subject either to mahomedans or...
Page 6 - Hindoostan, in latitude 18° 56'north longitude 271 72° 57' east. Bombay was originally some hilly rocky islets, but these, by the influence of the high tides, have been joined to each other; and now the island is composed principally of two unequal ranges of whinstone rocks, extending from 5 to 8 miles in length, and at the distance of about 3 miles from each other. All the ground that can be cultivated is now laid out in agriculture, and the remainder is either barren or covered with the residences...
Page 32 - Eajpootana, for instance, — where the state of society makes it difficult to protect women from insult, it is customary to destroy most female infants, in order to prevent what would be a disgrace to the tribe, but which a foe would always, for that reason, be ready to perpetrate. Now, we in India stand in this respect on tender ground. They cannot understand, though to a certain extent they envy, the freedom of our female society. But this is the particular point on which they hold us most accessible...
Page 21 - Nizam of the Deccan. In 1799, a new war taking place, his capital was taken by the English, on the 4th of May, and himself killed in the assault. A partition of his remaining territories took place, and on the 30th of June following, Kistna Rajah, then only five years old, was placed by the British on the throne of his fathers.