Islamic Culture October 1946

In such a case the meeting was summoned at the place where the royal standard was posted.2 The most remarkable features of the proceedings of the War Council were the lively speeches which the leader of the army delivered in order to cheer up the drooping spirits and embolden the failing courage of miltary officers. [...] While Kirkpatrick's account is a full and exhaustive narrative of the social political religious and economic reltions of the people of Nepal with a detailed description of the topography climate and the boundaries of the country the narrative of the Maulavi is scrappy limited; and not analytical. [...] The successive embassies to Nepal in the last decade of the ath century inevitably point to the eagerness of the Company's servants to acquire information regarding the territory of Nepal and it is really interesting to read the tale of Nepal as told by Maulavi 'Abdul-Qadir.2 In the first part of his report3 the Maulavi gives a sketch of the market of Nepal and enumerates the difficulties of the [...] Commerce was the mainstay of the people of Nepal and they used to produce different articles of merchandise.' Although the Nepal market was constantly visited by the people of Tibet and Hindustant the Nepalese " apprpriated to themselves the profits of the Trade." The Hindu merchants from Hindustan and Nepal could not carry on a profitable trade in Tibet like the Muhammadan traders. [...] " To the establishment of Factories there under the authority and protection of this Government there would be objections under any circumstances but we know so little of the nature of the country or the authorities beyond the limits of the Viziers' provinces whether any and what intercourse subsists between the subjects of them and those of Owde that I cannot recommend the adoption of the Mo