The British Empire Series: India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, British North Borneo, Hong-KongK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 |
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... never been aban- doned . In all relations within the spheres of personal status and succession the native of India enjoys the benefit of his own sacred laws to a larger extent than his European fellow - subject . In the provinces of ...
... never been aban- doned . In all relations within the spheres of personal status and succession the native of India enjoys the benefit of his own sacred laws to a larger extent than his European fellow - subject . In the provinces of ...
Page xx
... never known independence and property before have hastened to show they were unfitted for this social advance . The debt - burdened peasant sighs for the time when , having no property , he could contract no mort- gage debts , and ...
... never known independence and property before have hastened to show they were unfitted for this social advance . The debt - burdened peasant sighs for the time when , having no property , he could contract no mort- gage debts , and ...
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... and disposed of their own through agents in the interior . The state of the country was never encouraging , even under the best of the native or Moghal rulers , to commercial enterprise . According to the Arabic saying , 8 INDIA.
... and disposed of their own through agents in the interior . The state of the country was never encouraging , even under the best of the native or Moghal rulers , to commercial enterprise . According to the Arabic saying , 8 INDIA.
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... never wanting in the village staff , is never allowed to dwell within the village precincts , but has to live in an adjacent hamlet . He is the village serf or menial , and is not only the guide and the guardian of the village boundary ...
... never wanting in the village staff , is never allowed to dwell within the village precincts , but has to live in an adjacent hamlet . He is the village serf or menial , and is not only the guide and the guardian of the village boundary ...
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... never ad- mitted into the hierarchy , though in the present day he is often the most powerful , but not the most respected , man in the place . His hunting ground is in the large towns , where there is no annual procession of the staff ...
... never ad- mitted into the hierarchy , though in the present day he is often the most powerful , but not the most respected , man in the place . His hunting ground is in the large towns , where there is no annual procession of the staff ...
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