Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... SURAT - ITS PAST AND PRESENT . 1. Forbes ' Oriental Memoirs 2. Mill's History of British India 3. Le Voyage de M. De Thevenot 4. Ovington's Voyage 5. Fryer's East Indies and Persia 6. Coryate's Crudities ART . IV . THE ACTS OF THE ...
... SURAT - ITS PAST AND PRESENT . 1. Forbes ' Oriental Memoirs 2. Mill's History of British India 3. Le Voyage de M. De Thevenot 4. Ovington's Voyage 5. Fryer's East Indies and Persia 6. Coryate's Crudities ART . IV . THE ACTS OF THE ...
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... Surat by causes very different . This city had acquired con- siderable importance from its extensive commerce , and from its being the port whence the pilgrims to the tomb of the pro- phet usually sailed to Mecca . A factory had been ...
... Surat by causes very different . This city had acquired con- siderable importance from its extensive commerce , and from its being the port whence the pilgrims to the tomb of the pro- phet usually sailed to Mecca . A factory had been ...
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... Surat . An infant , his sole progeny survived him only a few weeks , and its uncle as heir , claimed the Government . Without the permission of the British he could not obtain it , and the price which they demanded for their assistance ...
... Surat . An infant , his sole progeny survived him only a few weeks , and its uncle as heir , claimed the Government . Without the permission of the British he could not obtain it , and the price which they demanded for their assistance ...
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... Surat in the West , Tanjore in the South , and Oude in the North , whilst he was . planning extensive reforms also in Bengal , but these labours and topics , great as they were , were not the only ones which occupied his mind . Equally ...
... Surat in the West , Tanjore in the South , and Oude in the North , whilst he was . planning extensive reforms also in Bengal , but these labours and topics , great as they were , were not the only ones which occupied his mind . Equally ...
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power of Surat , the settlement of Oude . Differing as these vari- ous measures did in importance , in their effects , and in their na- ture , he neglected none of them - his " Despatches " remain an imperishable monument of the ...
power of Surat , the settlement of Oude . Differing as these vari- ous measures did in importance , in their effects , and in their na- ture , he neglected none of them - his " Despatches " remain an imperishable monument of the ...
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