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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... troop of horses among the Mara- thas . Coorg ; mandal , Assam ; tapedar , Sind . PEON . See CHAPRASI . PESHKASH . - A tribute or offering to a supe rior . PAIGAH . A tenure in Hyderabad State . PAIK . ( 1 ) A foot soldier ; ( 2 ) in ...
... troop of horses among the Mara- thas . Coorg ; mandal , Assam ; tapedar , Sind . PEON . See CHAPRASI . PESHKASH . - A tribute or offering to a supe rior . PAIGAH . A tenure in Hyderabad State . PAIK . ( 1 ) A foot soldier ; ( 2 ) in ...
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... troop of horses . ROHU . A kind of fish , LABEO ROHITA . RYOTWARI . The system of tenure in which land revenue is imposed on the actual occupants of holdings . SADR , sudder . - Chief ( adjective ) . Hence the headquarters of a District ...
... troop of horses . ROHU . A kind of fish , LABEO ROHITA . RYOTWARI . The system of tenure in which land revenue is imposed on the actual occupants of holdings . SADR , sudder . - Chief ( adjective ) . Hence the headquarters of a District ...
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... troops 250,000 , labour corps 230,000 , total 180,000 ; the number about the time of the census being troops 105,000 , labour corps 20,800 , total 125,800 . So far as the larger totals are concerned the war is not a direct factor of any ...
... troops 250,000 , labour corps 230,000 , total 180,000 ; the number about the time of the census being troops 105,000 , labour corps 20,800 , total 125,800 . So far as the larger totals are concerned the war is not a direct factor of any ...
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... troops mutinied , and Alexander was forced to turn back and retire to the Jhelum where a fleet to sail down the rivers to the sea was nearly ready . The wonderful story of Alexander's march through Mekran and Persia to Babylon , and of ...
... troops mutinied , and Alexander was forced to turn back and retire to the Jhelum where a fleet to sail down the rivers to the sea was nearly ready . The wonderful story of Alexander's march through Mekran and Persia to Babylon , and of ...
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... troops sent out from England , and rebellions like that led by Keigwin in Bombay threatened to stifle the infant settlements . The public health was bad and the rate of mortality was at times appalling . To cope with such conditions ...
... troops sent out from England , and rebellions like that led by Keigwin in Bombay threatened to stifle the infant settlements . The public health was bad and the rate of mortality was at times appalling . To cope with such conditions ...
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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.