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The Asiatic Journal for October 1827

1827

In the case of the Jyntea family the descendants of the reigning Rajahs appear to gain admission in the course *time into the Kayt and Bayd caste by intermarriages with individuals of those tribes and they follow in every repect the customs of the Hindoos of the plains. [...] In conducting the affairs of government the Rajahs of Jyntea are under the necessity of consulting on all.important occasions the Queen Mother and the chiefs of districts and officers of state; and although the appointment and removal of both the latter deeriptions of persons rests with the Rajah himself they are nevertheless enabled to exercise a considerable degree of control over him as he [...] What then are the merits of the work if it discover any ? The splendour of the descriptions ; the gloing images we meet with in various passages ; the beauty of the language and allusions and the artful and elegant turn of the phrases. [...] From a subsequentlaart of the story it appears that Orcus the chief priest had calculated upolf this step on the part of Alciphron and eager to gain the renown of converting a chief of the Epicureans (a sect to which the Egyptian priests bore a deadly hatred) had exhausted' all the arts possessed by the priesthood in those days in order to strike the mind of the philosopher with awe astonis [...] After taking a view of the circumstances attending the prohibition of the slave trade and of the origin of Bye act which made slave-trading a felony his lordship proceeds to explain the n:kre of the court before which offenders in the colonies are triable by the law.
history
Pages
130
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
Segment Pages Author Actions
Suttees
405-410 unknown view
Newspaper Disputes at Calcutta
411-412 unknown view
The Burmese War
413-418 unknown view
Historical Romances
419-427 unknown view
The Law Respecting Slave Trading in the East
428-429 unknown view
The Brahmaputra River
430-434 unknown view
Malay Superstition
435-437 unknown view
Marriages in China
438-443 unknown view
On the Making of a New Grand Pass from the Carnatic to Mysore
443-446 unknown view
Fossil Remains in Ava
447-458 unknown view
Rajasthan or Rajputana
459-461 unknown view
Review of Books
462-476 unknown view
Varieties
477-483 unknown view
Asiatic Intellicence
484-520 unknown view
Dosstript to Asiatic Intelligence
521-524 unknown view
Debate at the East-India House
524-525 unknown view
Home Intelligence
526-531 unknown view
Price Current Sept 28
532-532 unknown view

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