A Short Manual of the History of India: With an Account of India as it Is; the Soil, Climate, and Productions; the People, Their Races, Religions, Public Works, and Industries; the Civil Services, and System of Administration |
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... Madras the Eastern Ghats trend off to the westward , bounding the plateau of Mysore , and at their junction with the Western Ghats rises the bold tri- angular plateau of the Nilgiri Hills , the highest point of which , Dodabetta , is ...
... Madras the Eastern Ghats trend off to the westward , bounding the plateau of Mysore , and at their junction with the Western Ghats rises the bold tri- angular plateau of the Nilgiri Hills , the highest point of which , Dodabetta , is ...
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... Madras it is only thirty miles across , and is still narrower near Viza- gapatam . In its southern part it is called the Carnatic . South of Madras it occupies from one - third to one - half the width of the peninsula , and runs up the ...
... Madras it is only thirty miles across , and is still narrower near Viza- gapatam . In its southern part it is called the Carnatic . South of Madras it occupies from one - third to one - half the width of the peninsula , and runs up the ...
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... Madras is only an open roadstead , with a beach famous for its lines of surf , and all the ports on the Coromandel Coast , from the Hooghly to Cape Comorin , are of a similar character . In Ceylon there is the first - class harbour of ...
... Madras is only an open roadstead , with a beach famous for its lines of surf , and all the ports on the Coromandel Coast , from the Hooghly to Cape Comorin , are of a similar character . In Ceylon there is the first - class harbour of ...
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... Madras Presidency . § 26. Mysore and Coorg . § 27. Himalayan Frontier States . § 28. North - West Frontier States . § 29. Foreign European Settlements . § 30. Ceylon . § 31. British Burma . § 32. Ancient or Popular Divisions of India ...
... Madras Presidency . § 26. Mysore and Coorg . § 27. Himalayan Frontier States . § 28. North - West Frontier States . § 29. Foreign European Settlements . § 30. Ceylon . § 31. British Burma . § 32. Ancient or Popular Divisions of India ...
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... Madras ; ( 8 ) the Chief - Commissionership of British Burma . To these may at present be added ( 9 ) the Chief - Commissioner- ship of Mysore and Coorg ; but the State of Mysore has only been provisionally administered by a British ...
... Madras ; ( 8 ) the Chief - Commissionership of British Burma . To these may at present be added ( 9 ) the Chief - Commissioner- ship of Mysore and Coorg ; but the State of Mysore has only been provisionally administered by a British ...
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