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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c 1877

1877

Poxsibly the fact of the entrance being to the north or south-east may have had reference to the time of death of the first tenant according to the seasonal position of the sun. [...] The covering slab and the sides of the kilt are each of &single piece of sandstone but many of these are now cracked and in one instance I could not tell whether the upright slab were fractured or that one part of it had been cut to fit the other as is often the case in the facing of the great stone walls of some of the Telingina fortresses. [...] It is at the same time very remarkable that in the part of the country where I would have it that the evidences of the highest phase of civiliztion of the pre-Aryan exists we have now only a very degraded remnant of the race with no knowledge of the ruins in question. [...] May I suggest on this that the Kois of the present day possibly had no direct ancestors living here at the time of the Aryan invasion or are they the returned residue of so much of the race as was driven outwards by the invaders or perhaps the after outspreading of those branches of the race who were never touched in the fastnesses of Sambalpur and Chutiti Ntigpur by the wave of conquest while [...] With the Koch State and the Bhutan Dvars on the north the wild tribes of Vslim on the east the advancing tide of Aryan civilization and subsequent Muhammdan conquest pressing on from the west and worst of all the hated Vagala from the south it is but natural that these conflicting elements should have left deep traces of storm and turmoil on the inmost life of the people.
history
Pages
192
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Notice of Pre-Historic Burial Place with Cruciform Monoliths near Mungapet in the Nizám’s Dominions.—By William King Depy. Supdt. Geol Sur. of India
179-185 The Philological Secretary view
Notes on the Rangpur Dialect.—By G. A. Grierson C. S. Rangpur
186-226 The Philological Secretary view
Note on the Bhars and other Early Inhabitants of Bundelkhand.—By Vincent A. Smith B. A. B.C.S.
227-236 The Philological Secretary view
An Unpublished Ghazal by Háfiz.—By H. Blochmann M. A. Calcutta Madrasah
237-241 The Philological Secretary view
A Grammar of the Language of Eastern Turkistán.—By R. B. Shaw Political Agent
242-368 The Philological Secretary view
Backmatter
i-ii The Philological Secretary view

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