Men and Events of My Time in IndiaJ. Murray, 1882 - 526 pages |
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... hill tribes . Shortly afterwards I stood before the stately monument over the grave of the Marquis Cornwallis , the Governor - General who died at his post , after having introduced the Permanent Settlement at the end of the last ...
... hill tribes . Shortly afterwards I stood before the stately monument over the grave of the Marquis Cornwallis , the Governor - General who died at his post , after having introduced the Permanent Settlement at the end of the last ...
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... hills , then under- neath one stream , again by an aqueduct over another , and so through deep cuttings in undulating ground to the open country at last . Within the plains I admired its breadth of 200 feet , its belts of umbrageous ...
... hills , then under- neath one stream , again by an aqueduct over another , and so through deep cuttings in undulating ground to the open country at last . Within the plains I admired its breadth of 200 feet , its belts of umbrageous ...
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... hill fortress of Kangra was seen rising up , a mass frowning in the midst of a gorge and overhanging a hill torrent . While I was at Dharmsâla , Macleod earnestly impressed on me the importance of assessing the land revenue in a ...
... hill fortress of Kangra was seen rising up , a mass frowning in the midst of a gorge and overhanging a hill torrent . While I was at Dharmsâla , Macleod earnestly impressed on me the importance of assessing the land revenue in a ...
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... hills . The repression of marauding and plundering was the first duty of the frontier administration , but could not be executed with- out the aid of troops . Such troops must be at the call of the civil officers on the instant ...
... hills . The repression of marauding and plundering was the first duty of the frontier administration , but could not be executed with- out the aid of troops . Such troops must be at the call of the civil officers on the instant ...
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... hill chiefs governing their own territories , but living under the shield of the British Government and having close relations with its representa- tives . With the intractable tribes , which formed an inde- pendent cordon between the ...
... hill chiefs governing their own territories , but living under the shield of the British Government and having close relations with its representa- tives . With the intractable tribes , which formed an inde- pendent cordon between the ...
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