The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435University of Calcutta, 1912 |
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Art . II . - DUELLING DAYS IN OLD CALCUTTA . * THE practice of deciding disputes by an appeal to single combat dates back to remote antiquity . It is not , however , till the Teutons begin to incorporate the custom as a part of their ...
Art . II . - DUELLING DAYS IN OLD CALCUTTA . * THE practice of deciding disputes by an appeal to single combat dates back to remote antiquity . It is not , however , till the Teutons begin to incorporate the custom as a part of their ...
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... practice , duelling was by no means a monopoly of the warrior caste . Civilians were often involved and Calcutta records teem with notices of affairs in which officers had little to do . Under " Deaths " in the Calcutta Gazette of the ...
... practice , duelling was by no means a monopoly of the warrior caste . Civilians were often involved and Calcutta records teem with notices of affairs in which officers had little to do . Under " Deaths " in the Calcutta Gazette of the ...
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... practice of duelling in Great Britain was inevitably followed by its decay in India , the death of the duel was a lingering one . According to the second and fifth of " the articles made by His Majesty for the better government of the ...
... practice of duelling in Great Britain was inevitably followed by its decay in India , the death of the duel was a lingering one . According to the second and fifth of " the articles made by His Majesty for the better government of the ...
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... practice of burying images appears to have become completely extinct about 700 A. D. * SECTION II . - ANIMAL - LORE AND TREE - CULT . Japanese Belief in Mythical Animals . - The Japanese believe in the existence of some mythical animals ...
... practice of burying images appears to have become completely extinct about 700 A. D. * SECTION II . - ANIMAL - LORE AND TREE - CULT . Japanese Belief in Mythical Animals . - The Japanese believe in the existence of some mythical animals ...
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... practice , so often referred to in ancient Japanese docu- ments , of each new Emperor occupying a different palace from that of his predecessor The Japanese have also a curious superstition about fighting with the back to the sun . This ...
... practice , so often referred to in ancient Japanese docu- ments , of each new Emperor occupying a different palace from that of his predecessor The Japanese have also a curious superstition about fighting with the back to the sun . This ...
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