The British Empire Series: India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, British North Borneo, Hong-KongK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 |
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... railways of India have fallen well in line in regard to this pious circulation of the masses , and adapt their trains especially to the pilgrim traffic at the time of the annual festival . The journey , accordingly , which used to be a ...
... railways of India have fallen well in line in regard to this pious circulation of the masses , and adapt their trains especially to the pilgrim traffic at the time of the annual festival . The journey , accordingly , which used to be a ...
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... railways , instead of diminishing their value in this respect , has raised it throughout the radius of the principal ... railway . As with the husbandman , so with the artisan . The manufacturing plant is of the simplest . The weavers ...
... railways , instead of diminishing their value in this respect , has raised it throughout the radius of the principal ... railway . As with the husbandman , so with the artisan . The manufacturing plant is of the simplest . The weavers ...
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... railway with the Central Provinces , and the whole trade of the new East Coast Railway concentrated there , such an undertaking might prove remunerative ; while a very valuable dockyard for the Indian navy might be estab- lished there ...
... railway with the Central Provinces , and the whole trade of the new East Coast Railway concentrated there , such an undertaking might prove remunerative ; while a very valuable dockyard for the Indian navy might be estab- lished there ...
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... Railway is now being con- structed to connect at Bezvada , on the Kistna River , with the existing portion of the railway - 500 miles in length up to Cuttack . This line was laid for the special purpose of bringing grain to the ceded ...
... Railway is now being con- structed to connect at Bezvada , on the Kistna River , with the existing portion of the railway - 500 miles in length up to Cuttack . This line was laid for the special purpose of bringing grain to the ceded ...
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... railway work on a large scale , as its establishment is limited , and is not adapted to any sudden expansion or contraction . However , railway extension is going on , though , speaking from a Madras point of view , I should like to see ...
... railway work on a large scale , as its establishment is limited , and is not adapted to any sudden expansion or contraction . However , railway extension is going on , though , speaking from a Madras point of view , I should like to see ...
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