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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... feet with live charcoal in it . SHER , ser , seer - A weight , or measure varying much in size in different parts of the country . The Railway ser is about 2 lbs . SHETH , shethia . - A Hindu or Jain merchant . SHIGURAM . - See TONGA ...
... feet with live charcoal in it . SHER , ser , seer - A weight , or measure varying much in size in different parts of the country . The Railway ser is about 2 lbs . SHETH , shethia . - A Hindu or Jain merchant . SHIGURAM . - See TONGA ...
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... feet . On the Malabar coast , as in Burma , the ends are left loose in front . In the greater part of India , they are tucked up behind - a fashion which is supposed to befit the warrior , or one end is gathered up in folds before and ...
... feet . On the Malabar coast , as in Burma , the ends are left loose in front . In the greater part of India , they are tucked up behind - a fashion which is supposed to befit the warrior , or one end is gathered up in folds before and ...
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... feet sometimes with a paste of turmeric , so that they may shine like gold . The choice of the same colour for different purposes cannot always be explained in the same way . The red liquid with which the evil eye is averted may be a ...
... feet sometimes with a paste of turmeric , so that they may shine like gold . The choice of the same colour for different purposes cannot always be explained in the same way . The red liquid with which the evil eye is averted may be a ...
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... feet in length , not built , but sculptured in solid stone , ar undertaking of vast and , to cur modern ideas , unprofitable industry . The Pagoda of Tanjore , the temples at Srirangam , Chidambaram , Vellore , Vijayanagar , & c . , and ...
... feet in length , not built , but sculptured in solid stone , ar undertaking of vast and , to cur modern ideas , unprofitable industry . The Pagoda of Tanjore , the temples at Srirangam , Chidambaram , Vellore , Vijayanagar , & c . , and ...
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... feet from the top was reached , but in an effort to accomplish the last stretch Mallory and Irvine were killed . It was not established whether they had or had not reached the top . India in 1925 and 1926 . In 1925 the extremists ...
... feet from the top was reached , but in an effort to accomplish the last stretch Mallory and Irvine were killed . It was not established whether they had or had not reached the top . India in 1925 and 1926 . In 1925 the extremists ...
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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.