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" ... sinks, and tanks, which, jumbled into an undistinguished mass of filth and corruption, equally offensive to human sense and health, compose the capital of the English Company's Government in India. The very small portion of cleanliness which it enjoys... "
THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA - Page 243
by W.W. HUNTER - 1885
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The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 3

William Wilson Hunter - India - 1885 - 494 pages
...India. The very small portion of cleanliness which it enjoys is owing to the fam1liar 1ntercourse ol hungry jackals by night, and ravenous Vultures, kites,...of stagnated and putrid waters.' Nine years later, Grandpre thus describes the town : — 'As we enter the town, a very extensive square opens before...
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The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 3

William Wilson Hunter - India - 1885 - 488 pages
...The very small portion of cleanliness which it enjoys is owing to the fam1liar 1ntercourse ot nungry jackals by night, and ravenous vultures, kites, and...of stagnated and putrid waters.' Nine years later, Grandpre* thus describes the town : — 'As we enter the town, a very extensive square opens before...
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History of Bengal, Bihar & Orissa Under Britis Rule

Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley - 1925 - 816 pages
...India. The very small portion of cleanliness which it enjoys is owing to the familiar intercourse of hungry jackals by night and ravenous vultures, kites and crows by day." Parliamentary intervention. — After 1780 Parliament, which had begun to realize that a new overseas...
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Portrait of India

Ved Mehta - History - 1993 - 564 pages
...India. The very small portion of cleanliness which it enjoys is owing to the familiar intercourse of hungry jackals by night, and ravenous vultures, kites,...In like manner it is indebted to the smoke raised on public streets, in temporary huts and sheds, for any respite it enjoys from mosquitoes, the natural...
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