The British Empire Series: India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, British North Borneo, Hong-KongK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 |
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... Court ) . STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 449 By Lieutenant - General Sir ANDREW CLARKE , G.C.M.G. , C.B. , C.I.E. ( late Governor , Straits Settlements ) . G.C.M.G. , BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 462 By Sir HUGH Low , G.C.M.G. ( late British Resident at ...
... Court ) . STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 449 By Lieutenant - General Sir ANDREW CLARKE , G.C.M.G. , C.B. , C.I.E. ( late Governor , Straits Settlements ) . G.C.M.G. , BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 462 By Sir HUGH Low , G.C.M.G. ( late British Resident at ...
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... courts of first instance is wholly in native and non - Christian hands . The Englishman who is involved in litigation must submit to have his case tried by a Hindu judge , and , except as a matter of favour , in the native language ...
... courts of first instance is wholly in native and non - Christian hands . The Englishman who is involved in litigation must submit to have his case tried by a Hindu judge , and , except as a matter of favour , in the native language ...
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... Court , were supported by Court patronage , and decayed with the influence which had nurtured them . Foreign trade by sea was carried on by foreigners , who obtained native goods and disposed of their own through agents in the interior ...
... Court , were supported by Court patronage , and decayed with the influence which had nurtured them . Foreign trade by sea was carried on by foreigners , who obtained native goods and disposed of their own through agents in the interior ...
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... the sack of this street by Nadir Shah , in 1739 , produced probably the biggest " loot " known to history from so small an area . What a native capital can become on the disappearance of the Court OUR GREAT DEPENDENCY 9.
... the sack of this street by Nadir Shah , in 1739 , produced probably the biggest " loot " known to history from so small an area . What a native capital can become on the disappearance of the Court OUR GREAT DEPENDENCY 9.
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native capital can become on the disappearance of the Court which sustained it , may be judged by the illus- trations of the actual condition of the once renowned city of Vijyanagar , in the South Deccan , which is now scarcely to be ...
native capital can become on the disappearance of the Court which sustained it , may be judged by the illus- trations of the actual condition of the once renowned city of Vijyanagar , in the South Deccan , which is now scarcely to be ...
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