The British Empire Series: India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, British North Borneo, Hong-KongK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 |
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... of the highly cultivated tracts , where trees have had to make way for the plough , the useful bamboo with the palm thatching lends a special feature to the architec- ture . It may be observed in passing , that 6 INDIA.
... of the highly cultivated tracts , where trees have had to make way for the plough , the useful bamboo with the palm thatching lends a special feature to the architec- ture . It may be observed in passing , that 6 INDIA.
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ture . It may be observed in passing , that though the divinities in favour vary in each tract of India , there is a curious tendency towards simplicity in both temple and rites , as well as in the character of the god , amongst the ...
ture . It may be observed in passing , that though the divinities in favour vary in each tract of India , there is a curious tendency towards simplicity in both temple and rites , as well as in the character of the god , amongst the ...
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... Passing now from the consideration of the reasons for the continued want of homogeneity in India , we come to a feature which is shared by every part of that country , and in regard to which it differs most remarkably from our own land ...
... Passing now from the consideration of the reasons for the continued want of homogeneity in India , we come to a feature which is shared by every part of that country , and in regard to which it differs most remarkably from our own land ...
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... passing , that the picture which Julius Cæsar has left us of the community under the Druidical system shows us that many of the germs of sacerdotal bondage were found there which , under the freer hand left in India to the Brahmanic ...
... passing , that the picture which Julius Cæsar has left us of the community under the Druidical system shows us that many of the germs of sacerdotal bondage were found there which , under the freer hand left in India to the Brahmanic ...
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... passing easily across the borders of the States , so as occasionally to elude the vigilance of the active police of one chief , and live for a while under the tolerant apathy of another . Hundreds of police and troops are after them all ...
... passing easily across the borders of the States , so as occasionally to elude the vigilance of the active police of one chief , and live for a while under the tolerant apathy of another . Hundreds of police and troops are after them all ...
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