Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 страници |
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... religious antipathy to voyages on the black water . In fact , the lower the caste in India the more tenacious are its members of caste - purity , and the more pride does each man take in protecting him- self from what he believes to be ...
... religious antipathy to voyages on the black water . In fact , the lower the caste in India the more tenacious are its members of caste - purity , and the more pride does each man take in protecting him- self from what he believes to be ...
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... religious duties enjoined by Muhammad being prayer five times a day , fasting for a month every year , almsgiving , and repeating the creed daily . We took in at the same time a number of Baniyahs or Hindu traders , who sta- tioned ...
... religious duties enjoined by Muhammad being prayer five times a day , fasting for a month every year , almsgiving , and repeating the creed daily . We took in at the same time a number of Baniyahs or Hindu traders , who sta- tioned ...
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... religious , and physical convulsions - all wars , massacres , pestilences , and famines - in a word , all the external and internal disturbing forces that have swept over and agitated the country for more than three thousand years . At ...
... religious , and physical convulsions - all wars , massacres , pestilences , and famines - in a word , all the external and internal disturbing forces that have swept over and agitated the country for more than three thousand years . At ...
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... religious community has its own Lambardār , who is its own special nominee and representative . But the tenure under which the land is held by Indian cultivators and landowners varies throughout India in a very perplexing manner . In ...
... religious community has its own Lambardār , who is its own special nominee and representative . But the tenure under which the land is held by Indian cultivators and landowners varies throughout India in a very perplexing manner . In ...
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... religious ceremonies for the villagers , the impure castes only excepted . He is sup- ported by fixed allotments of grain , and by special presents of food at caste dinners , or by gifts of money on occasions of births , weddings , and ...
... religious ceremonies for the villagers , the impure castes only excepted . He is sup- ported by fixed allotments of grain , and by special presents of food at caste dinners , or by gifts of money on occasions of births , weddings , and ...
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