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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... carried by persons in Kashmir to keep them- selves warm . KANKAR . - Nodular limestone , used for metal- ling roads , as building stones or for preparation of lime . KANS . A coarse glass which spreads and prevents cultivation ...
... carried by persons in Kashmir to keep them- selves warm . KANKAR . - Nodular limestone , used for metal- ling roads , as building stones or for preparation of lime . KANS . A coarse glass which spreads and prevents cultivation ...
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... carried on a few pieces of bamboo lashed together : a thin cloth is thrown over it and the body is tied to the frame . The Mahomedan bier is more decent , and resembles the Christian coffin . Some Hindus , however , carry the dead to ...
... carried on a few pieces of bamboo lashed together : a thin cloth is thrown over it and the body is tied to the frame . The Mahomedan bier is more decent , and resembles the Christian coffin . Some Hindus , however , carry the dead to ...
Page 38
... carried to its logical structural conclusion . Th Ahmedabad work is probably most famous to the extraordinary beauty of its stone " jali " - or pierced lattice - work , as in the palm tre windows of the Sidi Sayyid Musjid . Bijapur ...
... carried to its logical structural conclusion . Th Ahmedabad work is probably most famous to the extraordinary beauty of its stone " jali " - or pierced lattice - work , as in the palm tre windows of the Sidi Sayyid Musjid . Bijapur ...
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... carried all before him , defeating Porus at the battle of the Hydaspes , and crossing the Chenab and Ravi . But at the River Hyphasis ( Bias ) his weary troops mutinied , and Alexander was forced to turn back and retire to the Jhelum ...
... carried all before him , defeating Porus at the battle of the Hydaspes , and crossing the Chenab and Ravi . But at the River Hyphasis ( Bias ) his weary troops mutinied , and Alexander was forced to turn back and retire to the Jhelum ...
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... carried out by his immediate successors . Bu one nation to the other before settling down our efforts towards a sound administration to its present existence as a French colony in date from this second Governorship of Clive , miniature ...
... carried out by his immediate successors . Bu one nation to the other before settling down our efforts towards a sound administration to its present existence as a French colony in date from this second Governorship of Clive , miniature ...
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Page 496 - 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 175 - 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 71 - 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 496 - 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 82 - 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 77 - 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 71 - 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 307 - 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 73 - 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 71 - 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.