The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 |
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... court and its mercenaries . The relative position of the Scindians and their rulers did not tend to any reciprocity of feeling . There was nothing national in any of the wars , which have thrown down and raised up dynasties . It was the ...
... court and its mercenaries . The relative position of the Scindians and their rulers did not tend to any reciprocity of feeling . There was nothing national in any of the wars , which have thrown down and raised up dynasties . It was the ...
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... court ; few , who had influ- ence even among the soldiery ; and none , who could influence the country . Once thoroughly broken , there was no one , who could afterwards raise the standard of revolt , or even cause temporary annoyance ...
... court ; few , who had influ- ence even among the soldiery ; and none , who could influence the country . Once thoroughly broken , there was no one , who could afterwards raise the standard of revolt , or even cause temporary annoyance ...
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... court of the Amir , whom they served . They were liberally paid , receiving nominally from three to five hundred per mensem , were treated with respect at court , and received numerous presents from their masters , and often gifts of ...
... court of the Amir , whom they served . They were liberally paid , receiving nominally from three to five hundred per mensem , were treated with respect at court , and received numerous presents from their masters , and often gifts of ...
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... court , to superintend the accounts and examine the state of the districts , and of a Deputy Collector in the room of the Sazáwul - the Sazáwul himself being retained as a mere head Kardar . These latter received no detailed ...
... court , to superintend the accounts and examine the state of the districts , and of a Deputy Collector in the room of the Sazáwul - the Sazáwul himself being retained as a mere head Kardar . These latter received no detailed ...
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... Courts . We now turn for a while to the mode of administering criminal and civil justice in Scinde . The bona fide Magistrates were the Collectors and Deputy Collectors . But the Captains and Lieutenants of Police had also magisterial ...
... Courts . We now turn for a while to the mode of administering criminal and civil justice in Scinde . The bona fide Magistrates were the Collectors and Deputy Collectors . But the Captains and Lieutenants of Police had also magisterial ...
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