The Imperial Gazetteer of India: India

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Trübner & Company, 1886 - 747 pàgines
 

Continguts

The Kandhs Tribal Government Wars and Blood Revenge 60
60
India won not from the Mughals but from the Hindus
68
Statistics of NonAryan Races in 1872 and 1881 6971
69
Crushed Tribes Gipsy Clans Predatory Tribes
72
The Aryans in Ancient India
75
The Hindu Drama Kálidása
101
The Hindu Novel Beast Stories
128
Buddhism in India
132
The Greeks in India
163
Seleukos and Chandra Gupta
169
Scythic Inroads into India
174
IndoScythic Settlements Sen Gupta and Valabhi Dynasties 181
181
CHAPTER VIII
191
Shrines common to Different Faiths
203
Kumárila Bhatta Sankara Acharya
209
Siva and Vishnu compared
215
KrishnaWorship the Chief Vishnuite Sects 222
222
Christianity in India
229
Early Indian Christians 190 A D 234
235
First Portuguese Missionaries 1500 A D the Syrian Rite 243245
243
Parochial Organization of Portuguese India
247
The Portuguese Inquisition at Goa 253
253
First Protestant Missionaries 1705 Danish Lutherans 259
259
The Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment 266
266
First Turki Invasions Subuktigín 977 A D
272
Slave Dynasty 12061290 A D Altamsh the Empress Raziyá 278
278
CHAPTER XI
290
Akbars Organization of the Empire Military and Judicial
296
Jahangirs Personal Character his Justice and Religion
302
Aurangzebs twenty years Maráthá War his Despair
308
CHAPTER XIII
325
The Prakrits or Ancient Aryan Vernaculars 336338
336
The Seven Modern Vernaculars 342344
342
CHAPTER XIV
356
Their Brilliant Progress but Shortsighted Policy
362
Early English Factories Surat Masulipatam Húglí 368
368
378430
378
Battle of Plassey 1757 and its Results 381383
381
The Grant of the Diwání 1765
387

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Pàgina 124 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed — Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala ! and all at once is said.
Pàgina 369 - ... tis that must make us a nation in India. Without that we are but a great number of interlopers, united by His Majesty's royal charter, fit only to trade where nobody of power thinks it their interest to prevent us. And upon this account it is that the wise Dutch, in all their general advices that we have seen, write ten paragraphs concerning their government, their civil and military policy, warfare, and the increase of their revenue, for one paragraph they write concerning trade.
Pàgina 369 - The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade : — 'tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade;' 'tis that must make us a nation in India...
Pàgina 415 - I wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin.
Pàgina 81 - He who is the only life of the bright gods. Who is the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who by His might looked even over the water-clouds, the clouds which gave strength and lit the sacrifice, He who is God above all gods. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice...
Pàgina 682 - The Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India for 1877, was the first which included the vital statistics of the jails of all three Presidencies. 'The year 1877, to which it refers...
Pàgina 402 - Whose constant study it was, to elevate the intellectual And moral character of The Nations committed to his charge...
Pàgina 414 - the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and man if it were any longer to aid in sustaining by its countenance an administration fraught with suffering to millions.
Pàgina 236 - Govi that I told you of, having gone with his bow and arrows to shoot peafowl, not seeing the Saint, let fly an arrow at one of the peacocks ; and this arrow struck the holy man in the right side, insomuch that he died of the wound, sweetly addressing himself to his Creator.
Pàgina 56 - What,' said a Santal to an eloquent missionary, who had been discoursing on the Christian God — ' what if that strong One should eat me ? ' Nevertheless, the earth swarms with spirits and demons, whose ill-will he tries to avert.

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