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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... lived on such rivers as the Megná and the Hooghly , is produced by the action of friction between the water of the advancing tide and the shallow bed of an estuary ; the friction retards the advance of the water and causes it to be ...
... lived on such rivers as the Megná and the Hooghly , is produced by the action of friction between the water of the advancing tide and the shallow bed of an estuary ; the friction retards the advance of the water and causes it to be ...
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... lived about 500 A.D .; he affirmed the diurnal revolution of the earth on its axis , and made other discoveries far in advance of the age in which he lived . A later writer on astronomy , Bhaskaráchárya , lived at Bidar , in the Deccan ...
... lived about 500 A.D .; he affirmed the diurnal revolution of the earth on its axis , and made other discoveries far in advance of the age in which he lived . A later writer on astronomy , Bhaskaráchárya , lived at Bidar , in the Deccan ...
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... lived at the court of Ibrahim Adil Shah II . , of Bijapur , from A.D. 1589 to about 1612 ; and to that monarch he dedicated his great work , the Tárikh Firishta . This is a general history of India , commencing A.D. 975 and terminating ...
... lived at the court of Ibrahim Adil Shah II . , of Bijapur , from A.D. 1589 to about 1612 ; and to that monarch he dedicated his great work , the Tárikh Firishta . This is a general history of India , commencing A.D. 975 and terminating ...
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... lived about the seventh or eighth century of our era , and who re - established the strict observance of Bráhmanism in Southern India after the Buddhist period . The two great Vaishnava sects of Southern India are the followers of ...
... lived about the seventh or eighth century of our era , and who re - established the strict observance of Bráhmanism in Southern India after the Buddhist period . The two great Vaishnava sects of Southern India are the followers of ...
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... ancient Greeks , Romans , and Persians , and most of the modern nations of Europe , such as the English , Germans , French , and many others . All these nations originally lived together as one tribe , in- THE VEDAS . 139.
... ancient Greeks , Romans , and Persians , and most of the modern nations of Europe , such as the English , Germans , French , and many others . All these nations originally lived together as one tribe , in- THE VEDAS . 139.
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