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WARREN HASTINGS 211 The financial embarrassments of the Company ,
increased by the terrible famine of 1770 , the wars with Haidar Ali in Mysore and
with the Mahrattas in Bombay , had forced Hastings to call upon the Raja for
further ...
WARREN HASTINGS 211 The financial embarrassments of the Company ,
increased by the terrible famine of 1770 , the wars with Haidar Ali in Mysore and
with the Mahrattas in Bombay , had forced Hastings to call upon the Raja for
further ...
Page 212
This , as Hastings observes in his narrative , was a deviation from the rules of
decorum between vassals and their superiors , for the Governor - General had
taken with him only a very small escort . The Raja , however , had not yet the
courage ...
This , as Hastings observes in his narrative , was a deviation from the rules of
decorum between vassals and their superiors , for the Governor - General had
taken with him only a very small escort . The Raja , however , had not yet the
courage ...
Page 217
INSURRECTION CRUSHED 217 W arrean half - defiant messages to Hastings at
Chunar , had collected round him an army of over twenty thousand regular troops
, and about the same number of irregulars . Half of Oudh was in insurrection ...
INSURRECTION CRUSHED 217 W arrean half - defiant messages to Hastings at
Chunar , had collected round him an army of over twenty thousand regular troops
, and about the same number of irregulars . Half of Oudh was in insurrection ...
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Contents
IN THE VEDIC TIMES | 1 |
THE HINDU EPICSHEROWORSHIP | 17 |
THE ADVENT OF BUDDHASARNATH AND | 32 |
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| Title | Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion |
| Author | Ernest Binfield Havell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W. Thacker, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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