The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 13Trübner & Company, 1887 - India |
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acres agricultural annual average bank Bengal Bombay Presidency Bráhmans British Canal Census Census of 1881 Census Report cent Central Provinces chief Christians consists cotton criminal courts crops cultivated District division east exports feet females forest formed Government Gujarát head-quarters hills Hindus number incidence of taxation India inhabitants irrigation Jains Káthiáwár Khán labourers Land revenue Lower Burma Madras Presidency males Maráthás Muhammadans Municipal income Musalmán Mysore namely native north-west North-Western Provinces Number of houses occupying oil-seeds Oudh parganá persons per square police circles thánás Population 1881 portion Presidency.-See principal Punjab Railway Rájá Rájputs Ráná regular police Report of 1881 returned rice river road Sikhs Singh Sirohi Sirsá situated in lat south-west square miles station Sub-division Sukkur Sundarbans Surat Sutlej Sylhet tahsil táluk Tanjore Taung-ngu Tavoy temple Tenasserim Thána Thayet-myo thousand Tinnevelli town tract trade Travancore Trichinopoli Udaipur Unao valley villages Vizagapatam Wardhá
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Page 412 - elephants, horse, and foot, are often assembled. From this terrace, the city and the valley lie before the spectator, whose vision is bounded only by the hills shutting out the plains; while from the summit of the palace nothing obstructs its range over lake and mountain.
Page 183 - iv. of Denmark; and in 1841 their establishments were taken over by the Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission, which subsequently extended its operations into the District. The mission at Tanjore was founded in 1778 by the Rev. CF Schwartz of the Tranquebar Mission, who some time previously had transferred his services to the Society for
Page 419 - in ancient times the famous capital of Malwa, one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus, and the spot which marked the first meridian of Hindu geographers. It is stated to have been the seat of the viceroyalty of the famous Asoka during the reign of his father
Page 193 - As the capital of one of the greatest of the ancient Hindu dynasties of Southern India, and in all ages one of the chief political, literary, and religious centres of the south, the city of Tanjore is full of interesting associations. Its monuments of Hindu art and early
Page 333 - and finally fell into the Padmd or Ganges. In the destructive floods of 1194 BS, or 1787 AD, which form an epoch in the history of Rangpur, the stream suddenly forsook its channel, and turned its waters into a small branch marking