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... Native Kingdoms - Twelve Soubas of Hindostan Pro- per , according to the Ayeen Akbery ' . ........ 125 LETTER IX . Deccan or South Country - British Domi- nions ....... LETTER X. Hindû Chronology - Era of Vicramaditya- History - Menu ...
... Native Kingdoms - Twelve Soubas of Hindostan Pro- per , according to the Ayeen Akbery ' . ........ 125 LETTER IX . Deccan or South Country - British Domi- nions ....... LETTER X. Hindû Chronology - Era of Vicramaditya- History - Menu ...
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... perfectly agree with you that many of the evils complained of in the intercourse between the European residents and the native inhabit- B ants of India , are owing to the want of DE LYON CONTENTS General Introduction Languages of India ...
... perfectly agree with you that many of the evils complained of in the intercourse between the European residents and the native inhabit- B ants of India , are owing to the want of DE LYON CONTENTS General Introduction Languages of India ...
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... natives outnumber us in such a proportion as must make us tremble , if ever injuries offered to them , or interference in those points of religion or custom to which they are attached , shall rouse them to the exercise of the physical ...
... natives outnumber us in such a proportion as must make us tremble , if ever injuries offered to them , or interference in those points of religion or custom to which they are attached , shall rouse them to the exercise of the physical ...
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... natives seem immortal , and present us now with the same traits under which they are painted by the Greeks who visited them two thousand years ago . Perhaps in their moral character the Hindus are worse than their ancestors , but before ...
... natives seem immortal , and present us now with the same traits under which they are painted by the Greeks who visited them two thousand years ago . Perhaps in their moral character the Hindus are worse than their ancestors , but before ...
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... native languages . The Hindostanee is the most widely diffused , though should you be stationed in Bengal , the ... natives , who consider a knowledge of various languages as the mark of a superior education , not to mention the great ...
... native languages . The Hindostanee is the most widely diffused , though should you be stationed in Bengal , the ... natives , who consider a knowledge of various languages as the mark of a superior education , not to mention the great ...
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