The Calcutta Review, Volume 8University of Calcutta., 1847 - India |
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... reference of specimens to Calcutta , ) that it is not the saul . The vegetable products of economical value of this part of the Hill country , whether cultivated or wild , are indentical with those of Goomsur . " The traffic carried on ...
... reference of specimens to Calcutta , ) that it is not the saul . The vegetable products of economical value of this part of the Hill country , whether cultivated or wild , are indentical with those of Goomsur . " The traffic carried on ...
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... reference to the observance and non - observance of these abhorrent rites , the agent was now enabled , with some degree of precision , to mark out and divide the country into five clearly discriminated tracts , as follows : - " 1st ...
... reference to the observance and non - observance of these abhorrent rites , the agent was now enabled , with some degree of precision , to mark out and divide the country into five clearly discriminated tracts , as follows : - " 1st ...
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... reference to the successor . In doing so , we shall make him speak very much for himself , and furnish our readers with the means of judging very much for themselves . In his report of 1841 , Captain Macpherson , after furnishing those ...
... reference to the successor . In doing so , we shall make him speak very much for himself , and furnish our readers with the means of judging very much for themselves . In his report of 1841 , Captain Macpherson , after furnishing those ...
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... reference to our power of repeating such a contest as that of the late Goomsur war , pointedly refers to the fact , that " the force which was assembled there , in the second year , amounted to nearly one - half of the Madras troops of ...
... reference to our power of repeating such a contest as that of the late Goomsur war , pointedly refers to the fact , that " the force which was assembled there , in the second year , amounted to nearly one - half of the Madras troops of ...
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different subjects would we also say , with reference to the claims of Captain Macpherson and his predecessors , as regards the grand central principle of his proposed scheme for the abolition of human sacrifice among the Khonds . That ...
different subjects would we also say , with reference to the claims of Captain Macpherson and his predecessors , as regards the grand central principle of his proposed scheme for the abolition of human sacrifice among the Khonds . That ...
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