Indian and Pakistan Year Book and Who's whoSir Stanley Reed Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1928 - India Issues for 1919-47 include Who's who in India; 1948, Who's who in India and Pakistan. |
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... Mahomedan circle . A kind of athletic club formed for purposes of self defence , ALI RAJA - Sea King ( Laccadives ) . AMIL . - A name given in Sind to educated members of the Lohana community , a Hindu caste consisting principally of ...
... Mahomedan circle . A kind of athletic club formed for purposes of self defence , ALI RAJA - Sea King ( Laccadives ) . AMIL . - A name given in Sind to educated members of the Lohana community , a Hindu caste consisting principally of ...
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... Mahomedan shrine or tomb of a saint . DARI , Dhurrie - A rug or carpet , usually of cotton , but sometimes of wool . DAROGHA . The title of officials in various departments ; now especially applied to sub- ordinate controlling Officers ...
... Mahomedan shrine or tomb of a saint . DARI , Dhurrie - A rug or carpet , usually of cotton , but sometimes of wool . DAROGHA . The title of officials in various departments ; now especially applied to sub- ordinate controlling Officers ...
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... Mahomedan who has performed the haj . He is entitled to dye his beard red . HAKIM . - A native doctor practising the Mahomedan system of medicine . HALALKHOR . - A sweeper or scavenger ; lit one to whom everything is lawful food . HALL ...
... Mahomedan who has performed the haj . He is entitled to dye his beard red . HAKIM . - A native doctor practising the Mahomedan system of medicine . HALALKHOR . - A sweeper or scavenger ; lit one to whom everything is lawful food . HALL ...
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... Maho- medan ; syn . gaddi . MATH . - A Hindu ment . conventual establish- MAULANA.- A Mahomedan skilled in Arabic and religious knowledge . MAULVI . A person learned in Muhammadan law . MAUND , ver . Man . -A weight varying in different ...
... Maho- medan ; syn . gaddi . MATH . - A Hindu ment . conventual establish- MAULANA.- A Mahomedan skilled in Arabic and religious knowledge . MAULVI . A person learned in Muhammadan law . MAUND , ver . Man . -A weight varying in different ...
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... ; syn . dhenkul or dhenkuli , or dhikli , Northern India . PIPAL . A sacred tree , FICUS RELIGIOSA . PIR . A Mahomedan religious teacher or saint i L PLEADER . - A class of legal practitioner . 8 An Indian Glossary .
... ; syn . dhenkul or dhenkuli , or dhikli , Northern India . PIPAL . A sacred tree , FICUS RELIGIOSA . PIR . A Mahomedan religious teacher or saint i L PLEADER . - A class of legal practitioner . 8 An Indian Glossary .
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Page 500 - trade dispute' means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment, or with the conditions of labour of any person, and the expression "workmen...
Page 179 - We desire no extension of our present territorial possessions: and while we will permit no aggression upon our dominions or our rights to be attempted with impunity, we shall sanction no encroachment on those of others. We shall respect the rights, dignity, and honour of native princes as our own; and we desire that they, as well as our own subjects, should enjoy that prosperity and that social advancement which can only be secured by internal peace and good government.
Page 75 - The estimated annual expenditure and revenue of the province shall be laid in the form of a statement before the council in each year, and the proposals of the local government for the appropriation of provincial revenues and other moneys in any year shall be submitted to the vote of the council in the form of demands for grants.
Page 500 - Act had not been passed, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade.
Page 86 - GovernorGeneral shall appoint a date not more than six months, or, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, not more than nine months, after the date of dissolution for the next session of that chamber.
Page 81 - Government. 20. Development of Industries, in cases where such development by a central authority is declared by order of the Governor-General in Council, made after consultation with the Local Government or Local Governments concerned, expedient in the public interest.
Page 75 - The council may assent, or refuse its assent, to a demand, or may reduce the amount therein referred to either by a reduction of the whole grant or by the omission or reduction of any of the items of expenditure of which the grant is composed...
Page 311 - Keport) is their conviction that at the present rate of about 1'. 6d. " prices in India have already attained a substantial measure of' adjustment with those in the world at large, and as a corollary that any change in thV rate would mean a difficult period of readjustment, involving widespread economic disturbance, which it is most desirable in the interests of the people to avoid, and which would in the end be followed by no countervailing advantage...
Page 77 - The Committee desire that the relation of the two sides of the Government in this matter, as in all others, should be of such mutual sympathy that each will be able to assist and influence for the common good the work of the other, but not to exercise control over it.
Page 75 - Assembly is essential to the discharge of his responsibilities, act as if it had been assented to, notwithstanding the withholding of such assent, or the reduction of the amount therein referred to, by the Legislative Assembly.