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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... course of the Kuram river , being called the Kuram , with the famous ascents of the Pewár Kohtal and the Shutargardan Pass . 6 From a point nearly opposite Bannu to one nearly op- posite the confluence of the Indus and the Sutlej , the ...
... course of the Kuram river , being called the Kuram , with the famous ascents of the Pewár Kohtal and the Shutargardan Pass . 6 From a point nearly opposite Bannu to one nearly op- posite the confluence of the Indus and the Sutlej , the ...
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... course from year to year , sometimes deviating many miles from its old channel . The Búngar is the higher land between the rivers , generally arid and sterile , and often bare or covered only with coarse scrub - though in the northern ...
... course from year to year , sometimes deviating many miles from its old channel . The Búngar is the higher land between the rivers , generally arid and sterile , and often bare or covered only with coarse scrub - though in the northern ...
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... courses of the various channels have for ages been shifting . Below this point the present main stream is the Padmá , still sometimes called Ganges ; whilst the ancient main stream is now a much smaller one called the Bhagirathi , which ...
... courses of the various channels have for ages been shifting . Below this point the present main stream is the Padmá , still sometimes called Ganges ; whilst the ancient main stream is now a much smaller one called the Bhagirathi , which ...
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... course of the Mahánadi is through moun- tainous country , where the mountain torrents rise rapidly after rain , the delta of that river is liable to violent inundations . The province possesses no good port , and owing to this and to ...
... course of the Mahánadi is through moun- tainous country , where the mountain torrents rise rapidly after rain , the delta of that river is liable to violent inundations . The province possesses no good port , and owing to this and to ...
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... course of the Indus , in Sind and the neighbouring districts of Cutch and Balochistán . Maráthi is one of the strongest of the Aryan dialects , and is spoken by at least ten millions of people in the Bombay Presidency , the Central ...
... course of the Indus , in Sind and the neighbouring districts of Cutch and Balochistán . Maráthi is one of the strongest of the Aryan dialects , and is spoken by at least ten millions of people in the Bombay Presidency , the Central ...
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