Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... once . Akbar's gene- rals won it in two combats from the Affghan king , and his son enlarged the capital of Dacca , till it was transferred to Múrsheda- bad at the beginning of the last century . A Subadar governed it and remitted that ...
... once . Akbar's gene- rals won it in two combats from the Affghan king , and his son enlarged the capital of Dacca , till it was transferred to Múrsheda- bad at the beginning of the last century . A Subadar governed it and remitted that ...
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... wild hog and the buffalo herd . We begin at once with the staple cultivation of the banks of the lower Ganges . The principal object to which the labours of the Bengal Ryot are directed , is , as all THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES . 3 စာ.
... wild hog and the buffalo herd . We begin at once with the staple cultivation of the banks of the lower Ganges . The principal object to which the labours of the Bengal Ryot are directed , is , as all THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES . 3 စာ.
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... once assumed that rice was the only means of subsistence to the peasantry of India from the Himalayas to the sea , and from Assam to Gujarat . Our readers here well know that up - country men do not live on rice any more than Bengalis ...
... once assumed that rice was the only means of subsistence to the peasantry of India from the Himalayas to the sea , and from Assam to Gujarat . Our readers here well know that up - country men do not live on rice any more than Bengalis ...
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... once but a fair start of the inundating rains . Give them this reasonable advantage , and they rise with the rising waters . race commences as full of interest to those concerned as the most stirring fox hunt , or the most prolonged ...
... once but a fair start of the inundating rains . Give them this reasonable advantage , and they rise with the rising waters . race commences as full of interest to those concerned as the most stirring fox hunt , or the most prolonged ...
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... and a good exercise of muscle and sinew . But once brought under the plough , the labour of the ensuiug year is comparatively trifling . growing corn , the first settings are drowned , and 6 THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES .
... and a good exercise of muscle and sinew . But once brought under the plough , the labour of the ensuiug year is comparatively trifling . growing corn , the first settings are drowned , and 6 THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES .
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