Calcutta Review, Volume 40University of Calcutta, 1864 - India |
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accounts acres adopted Akhoond ancient appears Assam Assam Company Benares Bengal Brahmins Brahmoism Brahmos British Government Cachar Calcutta cause charge chiefs Chowkidars Civil considerable coolies Court cultivation deity Dhar district doubt duties effect enemy England English European Exhibition existing fact faith favour female fire force gardens give hand head hill Hindoo Hindu Holkar honour husband important India interest labour land large number Lord Lord Wellesley Lord William Bentinck Magistrate Mahadeo Mahomedan Mahratta Malwa matter ment moral native nature necessary object officers pass persons planter political position possession present principles provinces Punjab Puranas Rajah regarded religion religious revenue rule rupees schools secure servants ships Shiva shrine side society soil stone Suchandra temple territory tion Treaty tribes Umbeyla Vedant Vedas village Vishnu Wahabi whilst wife worship
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Page 33 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 369 - ... for the worship and adoration of the Eternal Unsearchable and Immutable Being who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe but not under or by any other name designation or title peculiarly used for and applied to any particular Being or Beings by any man or set of men whatsoever...
Page 365 - Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man : but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 381 - The Diwani of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, with the possessions we hold in those provinces, are the utmost limits of our views on that side of India : on the Coast, the protection of the Carnatic and the possession of the Circars, free from all engagements to support the...
Page 370 - ... adoration no object animate or inanimate that has been or is or shall hereafter become or be recognized as an object of worship by any man or set of men shall be reviled or slightingly or contemptuously spoken of or alluded to either in preaching praying or in the hymns or other . mode of worship that may be delivered or used in the said Messuage or Building...
Page 33 - And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, * * even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt.
Page 390 - Foreign nations would immediately take umbrage, and complaints preferred to the British Court might be attended with very embarrassing consequences. Nor can it be supposed that either the French, Dutch, or Danes would readily acknowledge the Company's...
Page 390 - Company's servants to the offices of collectors, or indeed to do any act by any exertion of the English power, which can equally be done by the Nabob at our instance, would be throwing off the mask, would be declaring the Company Subah of the provinces.
Page 364 - Behold but one in all things, it is the second that leads you astray. Every man and woman that has ever been born is of the same nature. with yourself. He, whose is the world, and whose are the children of All and Ram, He is my Guru, He is my Pir.
Page 364 - Musalman during the Ramazan. Who formed the remaining months and days that you should venerate but one. If the Creator dwell in Tabernacles, whose residence is the universe ? who...