A Geography of Hindustan, Ancient and Modern : Illustrated by Eight Lithographic Maps : with Brief Notices of the Principal Political Events which Have Occured from the Earliest Times : Designed for the Use of SchoolsAmerican Ceylon Mission, 1843 - 151페이지 |
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7 페이지 - Hindus, in assigning the highest place to certain deified saints, who, according to their creed, have successively become superior gods. Another point...
91 페이지 - Government, and to the aid of its troops to realize their just claims from their own subjects. No right on its part to interfere in their internal affairs.
54 페이지 - The wealthy natives now all affect to have their houses decorated with Corinthian pillars, and filled with English furniture. They drive the best horses and the most dashing carriages in Calcutta. Many of them speak English fluently, and are tolerably read in English literature...
4 페이지 - Himalaya mountains on the north, to the Indian Ocean on the south, and from the river Indus on the west, to the Birman Empire on the east.
129 페이지 - ... lacks of rupees (767,000/.) is raised by every sort of extortion and oppression. They ought to pay 1,500,000 rupees, (fifteen lacks,) annually to the king, but have generally withheld it, unless when in immediate fear of the royal armies. They maintain a force of 38,000 irregular cavalry. The Sindees are a handsome race, blacker than most of the people of India, but have the character of being treacherous, cruel, licentious, and very deficient in intelligence. upper sind.
91 페이지 - Third Class: treaties offensive and defensive; states mostly tributary, acknowledging the supremacy of, and promising subordinate cooperation to, the British government; but supreme rulers in their own dominions. Fourth Class: guarantee and protection, subordinate cooperation, but supremacy in their own territory.
106 페이지 - The city is of an oblong form, about six miles in circumference, surrounded by a stone wall with round towers. The...
31 페이지 - When a pilgrim arrives here, he sits down on the brink of the river, and has his head and body shaved so that each hair may fall into the water, the sacred writings promising him one million of years residence in heaven for every hair thus deposited.
128 페이지 - Caufirs, comes in contact with it. The Cashmerians are a distinct race of Hindoos, peculiar in language and manners. The men are stout, active, and industrious, much addicted to pleasure, and notorious for falsehood and cunning. They are chiefly Mussulmans. In the year 742 of the Hegira, the Hindoo kings were succeeded by a Mahometan dynasty. This, after reigning nearly 300 years, was subdued by the son of Bauber, and Cashmere remained in the hands of the Moguls, till the time of Ahmed Shah, when...
46 페이지 - Carnatic. 1757. The twenty-four Pergunnas. 1761. Chittagong, Burdwan, and Midnapore. 1765. Bengal, Bahar, and four of the Northern Circars. 177& The Island of Salsette. 1781. The Zemindary of Benares. 1787. The Guntoor Circar. 1792. Malabar, Canara, Coimbatore, Dindigal, Salem, Barra1799.