A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social: From the First Landing of the English, to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt; Including an Outline of the Early History of Hindoostan, Հատոր 1Blackie, 1862 |
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... Coast , General View of Surat , The English Fort , Bombay , circa 1672 , Bird's - eye View of Trincomalee , General View of Canton , Fort of Raje Ghur , Gingee , Patna , ou the Ganges , · . Street of the Fountains , Bejapoor , The Old ...
... Coast , General View of Surat , The English Fort , Bombay , circa 1672 , Bird's - eye View of Trincomalee , General View of Canton , Fort of Raje Ghur , Gingee , Patna , ou the Ganges , · . Street of the Fountains , Bejapoor , The Old ...
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... coast , the Neilgherry Hills , situated nearly in the same latitude , enjoy the climate of the finest part of the temperate zone . Where so many anomalies exist , it would obviously be impossible to give an adequate description ...
... coast , the Neilgherry Hills , situated nearly in the same latitude , enjoy the climate of the finest part of the temperate zone . Where so many anomalies exist , it would obviously be impossible to give an adequate description ...
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... coast as a dry wind . This coast , accordingly , and the eastern part of the Deccan , generally at this time receive no direct supplies of rain , and become in consequence so parched , that the culture of the ground would become ...
... coast as a dry wind . This coast , accordingly , and the eastern part of the Deccan , generally at this time receive no direct supplies of rain , and become in consequence so parched , that the culture of the ground would become ...
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... coast , for instance , they are retarded in proceeding northwards , and have copi- ously flooded some districts at least a month before they begin to fall in others . As India lies wholly on the north side of the equator , the cool and ...
... coast , for instance , they are retarded in proceeding northwards , and have copi- ously flooded some districts at least a month before they begin to fall in others . As India lies wholly on the north side of the equator , the cool and ...
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... coast , and forms a consider- able article of export ; the bread - fruit tree , the banana , and above all the mango , at once the finest and the most widely diffused of all the fruit - trees of which India can boast . Among the ...
... coast , and forms a consider- able article of export ; the bread - fruit tree , the banana , and above all the mango , at once the finest and the most widely diffused of all the fruit - trees of which India can boast . Among the ...
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A Comprehensive History of India : Civil, Military and Social, from ..., Հատոր 1 Henry Beveridge Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1867 |
A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social: From ..., Հատոր 1 Henry Beveridge Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1862 |
A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social: From ..., Հատոր 1 Henry Beveridge (Advocate) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1862 |
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Afghan Ahmednuggur Akber Ala-u-din Aluf appearance Arcot army arrived attack attempt Aurungzebe Baber Bengal Bombay British brother Cabool Calicut Cape capital Captain capture carried charter chief Chunda Clive coast command commenced Company Company's conquest consequence continued Cossimbazar court death Deccan defeated defence Delhi Dupleix Dutch East India elephants endeavoured enemy English Europeans expedition factory favour Ferishta fleet force Fort St French Gama garrison Ghuznee Gingee governor Gujerat Hindoo honour Hoomayoon horse immediately Indies Indus island Kandahar Khan king Lahore Lally Madras Mahmood Mahomed Mahometan Mahrattas Major Lawrence miles Mirza Mogul Mooltan Mullik nabob native obliged obtained officers Omichund Persian Pondicherry Portugal Portuguese Porus possession prince proceeded Punjab Rajah reached reign sailed sent sepoys Sevajee Shah Shah Jehan ships siege soon success Sultan Surat territory throne tion took trade treaty Trichinopoly troops vessels victory voyage whole zamorin
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Էջ 348 - 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. 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.
Էջ 312 - ... to judge all persons belonging to the said Governor and Company, or that shall live under them, in all causes, whether civil or criminal, according to the laws of this kingdom, and to execute justice accordingly...
Էջ 672 - And besides this, the gomastahs and other servants in every district, in every gunge, perganah and village, carry on a trade in oil, fish, straw, bamboos, rice, paddy, betel-nut and other things; and every...
Էջ 323 - Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Էջ 569 - Enter into business with Meer Jaffier as soon as you please. I am ready, and will engage to be at Nusary in twelve hours after I receive your letter, which place is to be the rendezvous of the whole army.
Էջ 356 - These adventurers shall be known as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and the first Governor, Master Thomas Smith, alderman.
Էջ 663 - Mussulmans are so little influenced by gratitude, that, should he ever think it his interest to break with us, the obligations he owes us would prove no restraint : and this is very evident from his having lately removed his Prime Minister, and cut off two or three principal officers, all attached to our interest, and who had a share in his elevation.
Էջ 548 - ... much depends. Success on this occasion will fill the measure of my joy; as it will fix me in the esteem of those to whom I have the honour to subscribe myself with great respect.
Էջ 663 - But so large a sovereignty may possibly be an object too extensive for a mercantile company ; and it is to be feared they are not of themselves able, without the nation's assistance, to maintain so wide a dominion. I have therefore presumed, Sir, to represent this matter to you, and submit it to your consideration...
Էջ 687 - he says, " how is the English name sunk ! I could not avoid paying the tribute of a few tears to the departed and lost fame of the British nation — irrecoverably so, I fear.