Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: AhmadnagarPrinted at the Government Central Press, 1884 - Bombay (India : State) |
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Ahmad Ahmadnagar Ahmadnagar district Akola assessment average bájri Berár betel Bhima Bhingár Bijápur Bombay boys Bráhmans bridegroom Burhán Captain Pottinger caste cattle cent chief chiefly cloth Collector cotton crops cultivation Daulatabad Deccan Dhangars district dress dry-crop East India Papers feasts feet Ferishta garden girl Godávari Government grain Gujarát hereditary hills Hindu husbandmen Indian millet Jamkhed Jejuri Junnar jvári Karda Karjat Khán Khandoba Kolis Kopargaon Korti Kunbis land landholders Malik Malik Ambar Marátha marriage married Márwáris Mhárs miles Moghal moneylenders mosque Musalmáns Nagar Násik Nevása Nizám Nizám Sháh Nizám's country officers Paithan Pandharpur Párner Peshwa polyandry Poona Population pounds Pravara priest Ráhuri rain returned as numbering revenue rice river road rupee sandal paste Sangamner season settle social disputes settlement Shevgaon Shrigonda soil sub-division surnames survey Taraf temple town trade turban Vánis villages wheat women worship yearly
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Page 73 - and clarified butter. They neither eat flesh nor drink liquor but many chew tobacco with betel leaves nuts and lime. The men shave the head except the topknot and the face except the moustache and eyebrows. The women tie their hair in a knot at the back of the head without decking it
Page 10 - In the alternation of the strata there does not appear to be any uniformity. But the general level, thickness, and extent of a stratum are preserved as in sedimentary rocks on both sides of a valley, the basalt and hardest amygdaloids being traceable for miles in the parallel spurs or ranges, but the imbedded minerals and even the texture
Page 134 - Sonars were not allowed to wear the sacred thread, and they were forbidden holding their marriages publicly as it was unlucky to see a Sona"r bridegroom. Sonar bridegrooms were not allowed to use the state umbrella or to ride in a palanquin, and had to be married at night and in out-of-the-way places, restrictions and annoyances from which even
Page 315 - sets. A letter of advice to the agent or banker, stating the amount drawn, the number of the bill, and the name of the person to whom or in whose favour the bill has been granted, is considered enough. Bills before they reach the correspondent of the drawer
Page 428 - is much engaged; how can he come?' 'How can he come,' re-echoed Mushir-ul-Mulk, 'I will soon show how he shall be brought to the presence.' This menace was considered a sufficient declaration and although negotiations continued to the last both parties prepared to decide their differences by the sword.
Page 445 - ziydfat, and other charges, as shown in the gross account of the collections. According to this account they were to receive nearly half the total revenue recorded in the government rent-roll, and the collections were thus shared by the domineering collectors of Raja
Page 430 - of Berar then declared that they had no intentions to attack the British or their allies or to obstruct the execution of the treaty of Bassein, provided the British would not prevent the execution of the treaties subsisting between the Peshwa and themselves. At the same time they continued to advance towards the
Page 406 - Though the chief power in the country was Muhammadan, large numbers of Hindus were employed in the service of the state. The garrisons of hill forts seem generally to have been. Hindus, Marathas, Kolis, and Dhangars, a few places of special strength being reserved for Musalman commandants or
Page 296 - Narsu greatly extended the new limits and threw two or three villages into one. Lands were given to all who would till them. For the first year no rent was asked and for the second the rent was limited to a horse-bag of grain.