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 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhin and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries were reduced to...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the... | |
 | Hyderabad (India : State) - 1884 - 802 pages
...had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dekhan and Guzarat. The- inhabitants of these two countries were reduced to the direst extremity. Life was offered for a loaf (Jane ba nane), but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever... | |
 | Prithwis Chandra Ray - Famines - 1901 - 126 pages
...fighting for blood at the slaughter-house. 'J Of the great famine of 1661, Muhammad Amin Razwiny writes : "Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ;...was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed... | |
 | Charles W. McMinn - Famines - 1902 - 148 pages
...there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhan and Guzerat. Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy, rank...bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goats flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed... | |
 | Bombay (India : State) - 1883 - 734 pages
...famed for their richness were utterly barren ; life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever bounteous hand was stretched to beg; and the rich wandered in search of food. Dog's flesh was sold, and the pounded bones... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1907 - 432 pages
...a deficiency in the bordering countries and a total absence of rain in the Deccan and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries were reduced to...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the once bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food, and the feet which had always trodden the... | |
 | William Foster - East Indies - 1910 - 492 pages
...Indian writer, the author of the Bddshahnama (Elliot and Dowson's History of India, vol. vii, p. 24) : ' Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ;...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 304 pages
...to China. local remembrance. Of the one that took place in 1630 a contemporary historian wrote : ' Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ;...it ; the ever bounteous hand was now stretched out for food. For long dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 608 pages
...there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhan and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries were reduced to...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the everbounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the... | |
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