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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... Muhammadan law . MAUND , ver . Man . -A weight varying in different localities . The Ry . maund is 80 lbs . MAYA . - Sanskrit term for delusion . MEHEL OF MAHAL . A palace . MELA . A religious festival or fair . MIAN . Title of the son ...
... Muhammadan law . MAUND , ver . Man . -A weight varying in different localities . The Ry . maund is 80 lbs . MAYA . - Sanskrit term for delusion . MEHEL OF MAHAL . A palace . MELA . A religious festival or fair . MIAN . Title of the son ...
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... Muhammadan rule , corres- ponding roughly to a Division under British administration . SARSUBAH.- An officer in charge of a Division in the Baroda State corresponding to Com- missioner of British territories . SATI . Suicide by a widow ...
... Muhammadan rule , corres- ponding roughly to a Division under British administration . SARSUBAH.- An officer in charge of a Division in the Baroda State corresponding to Com- missioner of British territories . SATI . Suicide by a widow ...
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... Muhammadan religious or chari- WALI . - Like Khelat is so termed , whilst the Chiefs of Cabul " Sardar . " The Governor of are both " Wali " and " Mir . " WAO . A step well . WATAN . - A word of many senses . In Bombay Presidency used ...
... Muhammadan religious or chari- WALI . - Like Khelat is so termed , whilst the Chiefs of Cabul " Sardar . " The Governor of are both " Wali " and " Mir . " WAO . A step well . WATAN . - A word of many senses . In Bombay Presidency used ...
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... Muhammadan architecture of India varied at different periods and under the various dynasties , imperial and local . The early Pathan architecture of Delhi was massive and at the same time was characterised by elaborate richness of ...
... Muhammadan architecture of India varied at different periods and under the various dynasties , imperial and local . The early Pathan architecture of Delhi was massive and at the same time was characterised by elaborate richness of ...
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... Muhammadan features . Noteworthy among the emperor's buildings are the tomb of Humayun , and the palaces at Fatehpur Sikri and Agra . Of Jehangir's time his mosque at Lahore and the tomb of Itimad - ud - daula are the most typical ...
... Muhammadan features . Noteworthy among the emperor's buildings are the tomb of Humayun , and the palaces at Fatehpur Sikri and Agra . Of Jehangir's time his mosque at Lahore and the tomb of Itimad - ud - daula are the most typical ...
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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.