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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... ( chief affluent of the Brahmaputra ) in east longitude 95 ° 30 ' , a distance of 1,400 miles , the Himálaya is an unbroken watershed of an average height of 19,000 feet . Its northern slopes are drained by the upper streams of these two ...
... ( chief affluent of the Brahmaputra ) in east longitude 95 ° 30 ' , a distance of 1,400 miles , the Himálaya is an unbroken watershed of an average height of 19,000 feet . Its northern slopes are drained by the upper streams of these two ...
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... chief are the Wardha and the Wainganga ) coincides with a broad depression in the Deccan plateau , which slopes gently from Nágpur ( 1,000 feet high ) to the sea . Another broad depression is caused by the basin of the Kistna ( or ...
... chief are the Wardha and the Wainganga ) coincides with a broad depression in the Deccan plateau , which slopes gently from Nágpur ( 1,000 feet high ) to the sea . Another broad depression is caused by the basin of the Kistna ( or ...
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... Chief Com- missioner , and in one exceptional case ( Barar ) a Resident . The precise meaning of these terms will be ... Chief - Commissionership of Assam , only severed from Bengal in 1874 ) ; ( 2 ) the Lieutenant - Governorship of the ...
... Chief Com- missioner , and in one exceptional case ( Barar ) a Resident . The precise meaning of these terms will be ... Chief - Commissionership of Assam , only severed from Bengal in 1874 ) ; ( 2 ) the Lieutenant - Governorship of the ...
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... Chief- Commissioner- ship of Assam consists of the two north - eastern valleys ( those of the Bráhmaputra , and of Cachar and Silhat ) de- scribed in § 6 , with the intervening and adjacent hill tracts . Gauháti on the Brahmaputra is at ...
... Chief- Commissioner- ship of Assam consists of the two north - eastern valleys ( those of the Bráhmaputra , and of Cachar and Silhat ) de- scribed in § 6 , with the intervening and adjacent hill tracts . Gauháti on the Brahmaputra is at ...
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... chief places of interest in Bengal -- 1. Bengal Proper . - In the district of the twenty - four Parganas , Calcutta . In Nadiya or Kishnaghur district , Nadiyá ( Nuddea ) , the old Hindu capital of Bengal , and the seat of the Sanskrit ...
... chief places of interest in Bengal -- 1. Bengal Proper . - In the district of the twenty - four Parganas , Calcutta . In Nadiya or Kishnaghur district , Nadiyá ( Nuddea ) , the old Hindu capital of Bengal , and the seat of the Sanskrit ...
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