Historical and Statistical Memoir of Dehra DoonPrinted at the Thomason Civil Engineering College Press, 1874 - Dehra Dūn (India : District) - 332 pages |
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acres administration annas assessment Baháder beegah Brahmans British brother Bunjárás called canal Capt Captain Chandee Chukrata Civil Collector Commissioner of Kumaon Court cultivation dated Dehra Doon Delhi Deobund Dhooms district duties Eastern Doon establishment European feet forests Futeh Ganges Goojurs Goorkha Gooroo Rám Government grants Gurhwál Gurhwál Rájá hills Himalaya Hindoos Hopetown Hurdwar irrigation Jounsar Bawur jumma Jumna jurisdiction Kálsee Khut Kour Kumaon Kunjah kutcha land revenue Landour latter Magistrate Mahomedan Major Young Meerut ment miles Mohunt Moradabad mountains mundwa Mussooree Narrain Native Nuwádá officers Pál pass pergunnah petrifaction plains Police population powers Prithee Provinces pucca puncháyut Purdooman Sáh Rájá Rajpoots Rajpore rates Regulation rent rice river road Rohilla Ross rupees Sáh Sáh's seers Seharunpore settlement Sewaliks Shore Siáná Sikh Sirmore Sreenugur Sudder Superintendent Sutlej Teeree tion tivation Tonse Total Tuhseeldar Umed Singh valley Vide Appendix villages whole Zemindars
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Page 136 - This is inscribed as a tribute of respect for our gallant adversary Bulbudder, Commander of the Fort, and his brave Goorkhas, who were afterwards, while in the service of Runjeet Singh, shot down in their ranks by Afghan artillery."— GRC Williams: Memoir, p.
Page 75 - Gajataine inscribed between his legs in the same characters as those of the inscription. The exact meaning of these words I do not know ; but as the Junagiri rock inscription closes with a paragraph stating that the place is called Sweta Hasti, or the " white elephant," I think it probable that Gajatame may mean the " dark or black elephant," and may, therefore, be the name of the rock itself. Amongst the people, however, the rock is known by the name of Chhatr Sila, or " the canopy stone," which...
Page 76 - Eorrest early in 1860 the letters of the inscription. were hardly visible, the whole surface being encrusted with the dark moss of ages ; but on removing this black film the surface becomes nearly as white as marble. At first sight the inscription looks as if it was imperfect in many places, but this is owing to the engraver having purposely left all the cracked and rougher portions uninscribed. On comparing the different edicts with those of the Kapurdagiri...
Page 173 - Dewtah, and it will reveal to you laws that are to be obeyed." On learning this vision of the cultivator, some Brahmins made an image, and placed it in the field where the snake had appeared, and after some time had elapsed, it was inspired to give them the following instructions, the observance of which secures the devout from the evils of the present world, and insures their happiness in the next, via.
Page 74 - Near the foot of the upper terrace stands the large quartz boulder which has preserved the edicts of Asoka for upwards of 2,000 years. The block is 10 feet long and 10 feet high, and about 8 feet thick at bottom. The south-eastern face has been smoothed, but rather unevenly, as it follows the undulations of the original surface. The main inscription is engraved on this smoothed surface, which measures 5 feet in height, with a breadth of...
Page xvi - PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL. (Received the assent of the Governor-General on the 17th February 1882.) An Act to Amend the law relating to the Transfer of Property by Act of Parties.
Page xix - Rajput caste, and have the power to sell or otherwise dispose of their lands. They have in every way a right and title to their villages, but the gair mouroosee cultivators have no right to sell or otherwise dispose of their lands; but to the Zamindar, whose land they cultivate, they pay rent in money; this payment is called kara.
Page xci - It will be an important part of the Collector's duty to make certain that any transfer of such rights shall have been made with a complete and fair understanding on the part of all concerned.
Page 186 - General to the king, which the latter considered in the light of a command to give him an official post ? Who does not remember the same influence exerted to procure employment, or, in plain English, a pension, for an English singer and his wife, from the unfortunate king of Lucknow...
Page xl - An Act to remove the Garo Hills from the jurisdiction of the tribunals established under the General Regulations and Acts, and for other purposes" among other things provided as follows : "S.