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... Himalehs , another range of mountains describes a bold sweep across nearly the whole breadth of the country . These * The Himalehs are computed to occupy an area of 150,000 miles . MOUNTAINS AND HILLS . 3 are called the Vindya range.
... Himalehs , another range of mountains describes a bold sweep across nearly the whole breadth of the country . These * The Himalehs are computed to occupy an area of 150,000 miles . MOUNTAINS AND HILLS . 3 are called the Vindya range.
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... called the Vindya range . Again , about a hundred miles further south , another range of hills , called the Sutpúra , skirts the valley of the Nirbudda ; and still further , another range skirts the valley formed by the River Tápí ...
... called the Vindya range . Again , about a hundred miles further south , another range of hills , called the Sutpúra , skirts the valley of the Nirbudda ; and still further , another range skirts the valley formed by the River Tápí ...
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... or lose sight of villages . In Gujurat - which for its fertility has been called " the Garden of India " -I have often counted within my horizon some ten to fifteen populous and flourishing MORAL ASPECT . 11 Viewing India in this light ,
... or lose sight of villages . In Gujurat - which for its fertility has been called " the Garden of India " -I have often counted within my horizon some ten to fifteen populous and flourishing MORAL ASPECT . 11 Viewing India in this light ,
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... called second Ádit - vár or day of the Sun. Som - vár Moon . third Mongal - vár Mars . fourth Búdh - vár Mercury . fifth Bréspat - vár Jupiter . sixth Sukar - vár Venus . seventh Sani - vár Saturn 18 STATE OF CIVILIZATION . Forms of ...
... called second Ádit - vár or day of the Sun. Som - vár Moon . third Mongal - vár Mars . fourth Búdh - vár Mercury . fifth Bréspat - vár Jupiter . sixth Sukar - vár Venus . seventh Sani - vár Saturn 18 STATE OF CIVILIZATION . Forms of ...
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... called the Lunar and Solar These ruled in India before the Macedonian invasion . From that time to the Muhammadan con- quests , a thick obscurity hangs over all Indian history . That obscurity has been latterly somewhat relieved by the ...
... called the Lunar and Solar These ruled in India before the Macedonian invasion . From that time to the Muhammadan con- quests , a thick obscurity hangs over all Indian history . That obscurity has been latterly somewhat relieved by the ...
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Page 37 - If a country remain for a series of years the scene of continued pillage and massacre, so that the villages cannot be inhabited, the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives.
Page 36 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down : revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindu, Pathan, Moghul, Mahratta, Sikh, English are masters in turn ; but the village communities remain the same...
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Page 261 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Page 317 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 36 - An hostile army passes through the country. The village communities collect their cattle within their walls, and let the enemy pass unprovoked. If plunder and devastation be directed against themselves, and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance, but when the storm has passed over they return and resume their occupations.
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