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Indian Recreations Consisting Chiefly of Strictures on the Domestic and Rural Economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos

1799

inveltigation : fuch as the number of.the iAhabit~.nts ; the o pt ocular manufaetufbs or labour in which the'people are employed in each diitrift ; the rate of their wages and the ezpenc% of their 111Ming ethc different branches of husbandry fuch as 'tl:w'tcacre by which the farmers' hold their pofe4 fiuns ; the rent and different kids of produce ' with their value in the tinarket. [...] ; Vrery few even of the higcft class of Bramis have made this attainment—not the thouf ndtli ~)u ;t of the conimu:~ity ; whereas in Europe al moil all the youth of any rank are inftructed in the lagm l;cs of Athens and of Rome from their earlie{t years ; by their means a conliderabie irafs of~knov:- Ld: rc;:c!te even the body of the people. [...] fuch confidera cquiiition.; On the craft as to attract the notice of the court! and 1'criIhta the hiito~rian nicutions 11 that by tlic.ilegii :n c of the king's o ernorfeveral diuiricis of G uzarat rrere in the hands of the Idoha.o;s Zf j 415ou'r a ccntur'v afterwards the Mogul cirpj: 'Cemwd j: have reached the fiunitPt of its grandeur iron which it fa ldenly rel pfed into debilityW.'r [...] TILE IVizam viceroy of the Deccan and illiverdi Khan Subah of Bengal threw of the yoke f 'Wf111.3 the Mahrattas and Rohillas eftabliihed indepennt Rates in the &art of the empire. The province of Oude was feized by Siefdar Jung grandfather to the prefent Nabob Azoph Doulah. [...] T]losE who entertain doubts of the truth of Grcian hiltories and of the accounts of the Patan and Mogul conquefts from the enormous difpropoftion of numbers between the contending armies may find a clear elucidation of them in many of the egaaements in their own times where the number of the vicInrt was Rill' more difproportioned to that of the vanyuifhed "armies.
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Preface
i-xv William Tennant view
Introduction
1-9 unknown view
The Mahomedan Conquests in India
10-18 unknown view
Remarks on the Statement Given by the Abbe Raynal of the British Conquests in Bengal
19-28 unknown view
Pigin and Present State of the Mahratta Empire
29-36 unknown view
Of the Extent Police of Calcutta
37-43 unknown view
Maritime Trade of Calcutta
44-51 unknown view
The Different Races of Inhabitants Settled in Calcutta
52-59 unknown view
Of the Bannians and Native Servants
60-75 unknown view
The Effect of a Hot Climate on Europians
76-82 unknown view
Of the Rank and Condition of the Different Classes
83-92 unknown view
Ecclesiastical Establishment
93-99 unknown view
Practical Inconveniences of the Hindu Superstition
100-109 unknown view
The Effects of this System on the Knowledge and Virtue of the People
110-118 unknown view
The Hindoo System as it Affects Social Inter Course
119-127 unknown view
Comestic Slavery Among the Hindoos
128-137 unknown view
Of the Antiquity of the Hindoo Scriptures
138-i unknown view
Resemblance Between the Jewish and Hindoo Rites
161-172 unknown view
The Authority Claimed by the Brahmins
173-180 unknown view
Peculiarities of the Musselmen—their Character
181-191 unknown view
Hindoo Notions with Regard to Marriage
192-204 unknown view
Efforts of Europeans in the Conversion of the Natives
205-216 unknown view
The Mahommedan Festival of Mohurrum
217-222 unknown view
Religious Rites
223-232 unknown view
The Cruelty of the Mahommedans in India
233-241 unknown view
Of Some Detached Customs Among the Natives
242-249 unknown view
Of the State of Literature Among the Natives of India
250-260 unknown view
Of the Distribution of Justice
261-268 unknown view
Manners of the Mussulmans
269-276 unknown view
An Account of the Historian Gholam Hossein Khan
277-287 unknown view
Of The Ayeen Acbery
288-296 unknown view
Of Trades and Proffessions as Practised Among the Natives of India
297-304 unknown view
The State of Married Women Among the Mahommedans
305-321 unknown view
Discriptton of an European Cantonmend
322-329 unknown view
Mode of Living Among the Military and Civil Officers
330-337 unknown view
Idea of the Mogul Empire in the Reign of Acber
338-356 unknown view
General Sketch of the Mahratta Government
357-370 unknown view
Of the Defence of the Country
371-376 unknown view
Of the Servants of the India Company
377-383 unknown view

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