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A Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh (A to G)

1878

taMarinds or banians to discuss the local news the last action of the magistrate the rent demanded by the landlord rumours of new taxes or the intentions of a distant government the price of grain the weather the harvest the health of the neighbouhood. [...] The main duties of the Brahman are not the service of particular deities for that is usually left to the religious orders which are above caste but the direction of the family life of the people down to tht-smallest acts—from the solemnization of mariage and performance of funeral rites to the selection of a favourable day—for starting on a journey or cutting the ripened torn. [...] Its subjection to the power of Patna closes the ancient hitory of Oudf and though we may conjecture that on the extintion of that kingdom it fell under the dominion of Kanauj we hear no more of its princes its saints or its people and the break in its records probably marks the extinction of its civilization and the relapse of the greater part of the country into the forests which were [...] With the straggle which ended in the overthrow of Kanauj the last Hindu empire which had any pretence to include the whole of the continent north of the Vindhyas and which sealed in blood the final victory of the Brahman over the Buddhist the modern history of the province opens in dark and doubtful legend. [...] The period immediately following the destructive inroads of Mahmtid Ghaznavi saw the rise in Southern Oudh the Dual) and the country between the Ganges and Malwa of the short-lived power of the Bhars.
government politics public policy
Pages
685
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Introduction
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A Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh
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Index
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