The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1권Trübner & Company, 1885 |
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acres Aden administrative Afghán Afghánistán Agra agricultural Ahmadábád Ajmere Akyab Allahábád Ambála Amritsar annual Arakan Arcot Assam Aurangzeb average Bahraich bank Bengal Berár Bombay Presidency Bráhmans Brahmaputra Burmese capital Census cent century chief chiefly Christians comprising consists contains cotton court crops cultivated Delhi dispensary District east exports feet females forests forms Ganges Gazetteer Government grain Guzerát head-quarters Herát hills Hindus important India inhabitants irrigation Jains joár Jumna Kábul Khán labourers land revenue Madras Presidency males manufacture Maráthá Maulmain Mughal Muhammadans municipal Musalmáns Mysore namely native North-Western Provinces occupied houses officers Oudh parganá plain police station Population 1881 population in 1881 principal Punjab Railway Rájá Rájputána Rájputs returned rice river road schools Sháh Sikhs Singh situated soil square miles Statistical Survey stream Sub-division Sylhet tahsil táluk temple territory total population town tract trade tribes valley villages
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121 페이지 - Thomas Coriate, traveller for the English wits ; greeting from the court of the Great Mogul, resident at the towne of Asmere in Easterne India.
47 페이지 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
17 페이지 - The little village (formerly the great city) of Aden is now reduced to the most exigent condition of poverty and neglect. In the reign of Constantine this town possessed unrivalled celebrity for its impenetrable fortifications, its flourishing commerce, and the glorious haven it offered to vessels from all quarters of the globe. But how lamentable is the present contrast...
449 페이지 - Backcrgunjc is one of the healthiest in Eastern Bengal, owing to the strong south-west monsoon, which comes up directly from the Bay of Bengal, and keeps the atmosphere cool; but the heavy rainfall and consequent humidity of the atmosphere, combined with the use of bad water, are fruitful sources of disease.
196 페이지 - In the midst of the city there was a Brahmanical temple, to which the presentation of a single piece of money procured as much merit as that of one thousand pieces elsewhere. Before the principal room of the temple there was a large tree with widespreading branches, which was said to be the dwelling of an anthropophagous demon.
98 페이지 - ... most essentially building race at that time in India, and the Chalukyas conquered their conquerors, and forced them to adopt forms and ornaments which were superior to any the invaders knew or could have introduced. The result is a style which combines all the elegance and finish of Jaina...
319 페이지 - Koleroon, on the east by the Bay of Bengal, on the south by the Marawar country,' and on the west by Trichinopoly and the Tondiman's country.
88 페이지 - ... potters, carpenters, and other inferior artisans. An exception is also made in the case of a son succeeding his father, when nothing has to be paid. In other cases the amount varies in proportion to the importance of the trade from Rs. 50 to Rs.
46 페이지 - ... manner, especially when they hope to gain some object, but capable of the grossest brutality when that hope ceases. They are unscrupulous in perjury, treacherous, vain and insatiable, passionate in vindictiveness, which they will satisfy at the cost of their own lives and in the most cruel manner. Nowhere is crime committed on such trifling grounds, or with such general impunity, though when it is punished the punishment is atrocious. Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing and...
45 페이지 - The women have handsome features of Jewish cast (the last trait often true also of the men) ; fair complexions, sometimes rosy, though usually a pale sallow ; hair braided and plaited behind in two long tresses, terminating in silken tassels. They are rigidly secluded, but intrigue is frequent. In some parts of the country the engaged lover is admitted to visits of courtship analogous to old Welsh customs. :, 46 . AFGHANISTAN. The Afghdns, inured to bloodshed from childhood, are familiar with death,...