The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 |
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... success ; and even then , comparatively few of his troops were Sikhs - the remainder con- sisting of mercenaries ... successful revolt , the Sirdars of Kandahar could do no more than boast and promise . Thus was Scinde as really free ...
... success ; and even then , comparatively few of his troops were Sikhs - the remainder con- sisting of mercenaries ... successful revolt , the Sirdars of Kandahar could do no more than boast and promise . Thus was Scinde as really free ...
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... success , to render his Government as unlike any hitherto known in India , as possible . With no revenue experience to guide him , he yet paused not in attempting to hurl down , and to re - build upon European theories , systems and ...
... success , to render his Government as unlike any hitherto known in India , as possible . With no revenue experience to guide him , he yet paused not in attempting to hurl down , and to re - build upon European theories , systems and ...
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... success . As the zemindars of villages were held responsible for property so traced to his village , unless he could carry the marks out of it on to the lands of another , it was his interest that his village should boast of one or more ...
... success . As the zemindars of villages were held responsible for property so traced to his village , unless he could carry the marks out of it on to the lands of another , it was his interest that his village should boast of one or more ...
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... success of which depended on so precarious a circumstance , as a change of Governors . Vigour was the main spring of the former rule , and alone had given it whatever it possessed of good working and success . A want of it by degrees ...
... success of which depended on so precarious a circumstance , as a change of Governors . Vigour was the main spring of the former rule , and alone had given it whatever it possessed of good working and success . A want of it by degrees ...
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working and success . A want of it by degrees crept into all departments ; and what had been bad before , became worse now . As no change in revenue matters , which had been so long looked for , seemed likely to take place , the ...
working and success . A want of it by degrees crept into all departments ; and what had been bad before , became worse now . As no change in revenue matters , which had been so long looked for , seemed likely to take place , the ...
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