The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 1Trübner & Company, 1885 - Great Britain |
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aboriginal 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 town tract trade tribes valley villages
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Page 121 - Thomas Coriate, traveller for the English wits ; greeting from the court of the Great Mogul, resident at the towne of Asmere in Easterne India.
Page 47 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
Page 17 - 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...
Page 196 - 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.
Page 46 - ... 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...
Page 196 - Banian tree," which is still an object of worship at Allahabad. This tree is now situated underground at one side of a pillared court, which would appear to have been open formerly, and which is, I believe, the remains of the temple described by Hwen Thsang. The temple is situated inside the fort of Allahabad to the east of the Ellenborough Barracks, and due north from the stone pillar of Asoka and Samudra Gupta.
Page 135 - abomination " and " abominable " are used to mean simply excessive in a disagreeable sense. ABOR HILLS, a tract of country on the north-east frontier of India, occupied by an independent tribe called the Abors. It lies north of Lakhimpur district, in the province of eastern Bengal and Assam, and is bounded on the...
Page 451 - Finding they could do nothing against us while we remained inside, they heaped wood all round and set it on fire. When we could no longer remain inside, on account of the smoke and heat, we threw off the clothes we had, and, each taking a musket, charged through the fire.
Page 45 - 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. The Afghdns, inured to bloodshed from childhood, are familiar with death, audacious in attack,...
Page 451 - We could not make for the river, but had to go down parallel, and came at the river again a mile lower down, where we saw a large force of men right in front waiting for us, and another lot on the other bank, should we attempt to cross the river. On the bank of the river, just by the force in front, was a temple. We fired a volley and made for the temple, in which we took shelter, one man being killed and one wounded. From the door of the temple we fired on every insurgent who showed himself. Finding...