The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 |
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... leaving its details to be filled in by subordinate instruments , who thus themselves acquire a larger share of independence than is judicious . Under such circumstances , the head of the Government can but rarely acquire a faithful ...
... leaving its details to be filled in by subordinate instruments , who thus themselves acquire a larger share of independence than is judicious . Under such circumstances , the head of the Government can but rarely acquire a faithful ...
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... leaving in their wordy warfare no breathing time or room for the discussion of more material points , bearing on the present and future well- being of the country . The question was not , whether this or that measure , emanating from ...
... leaving in their wordy warfare no breathing time or room for the discussion of more material points , bearing on the present and future well- being of the country . The question was not , whether this or that measure , emanating from ...
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... leaves . They appear , on the whole , to have governed with ability and justice : but the various divisions of the country amongst the members of the family very much tended to diminish their power , as , in the absence of a foreign ...
... leaves . They appear , on the whole , to have governed with ability and justice : but the various divisions of the country amongst the members of the family very much tended to diminish their power , as , in the absence of a foreign ...
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... leave this head of the subject , we must remark the po- pulation and extent of country , with which Sir Charles had to deal . The population of Scinde has been variously estimated at , from twenty to thirty per square mile : but , from ...
... leave this head of the subject , we must remark the po- pulation and extent of country , with which Sir Charles had to deal . The population of Scinde has been variously estimated at , from twenty to thirty per square mile : but , from ...
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... leaving his desk at the close of the year 1844 , not eighteen months from his assumption of the Government , again to wield the sword , and at the head of a force to march against the mountain tribes , and carry on a difficult and ...
... leaving his desk at the close of the year 1844 , not eighteen months from his assumption of the Government , again to wield the sword , and at the head of a force to march against the mountain tribes , and carry on a difficult and ...
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Affghanistan Affghans Agra amongst army attack Bala Hissar Bamian Bengal Brahmans brigade British Cabul Calcutta Candahar cantonments Captain Hervey Cawnpore character Chiefs civil Clive Collectors command course Court creation cultivators detachment district ditto Dost Mahomed duties earth effect Elphinstone enemy English Envoy European existed fact favour feeling force former Ghiljies Government Governor-General guns hand Herat Hindi Hindu India influence instruction Kalhana Kashmir Khan Khiva labour land landholders Lord Lord Auckland Macnaghten Mahomed Akbar matter means measures ment military Mohun Lal Namuh native Nawab North Western Provinces object occupation officers pass Pergunnah period Persian political portion position possession present proprietors Provinces Rajput reason received regarding regiment render respect revenue rupees Sale Sanskrit schools Scinde settlement Shah Shuja Shah's sipahis tion tribes troops Urdu village whilst whole Yar Mahomed Zeila