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Sva

1914

The open country they call deg and the hilly tract between Poona and Satara or more properly the mountain valleys of the Nira Kistna and Yenna they ma the naval* the cradle of Sivaji's svairaf orir own dominion." South of Poona the capital of the Peshwas and the Kabul of the Deccan stretches the Katruj Ghat spur and its ramifications croimed by the inspiring ruins of Sivaji's old strongh [...] Far below lie the misty plains of the Kalyan and Penwell rivers and beyond them to the westward the Arabian Sea with Bombay the sanctuary of the eponymous goddess Mambai in all the magnificence and' pride of her commercial prosperity lying in it diminished in the long perspective as if to a minnow taken up out of the water in the hollow of one's hand ; and eastward the loom-line of the Sa [...] The Mahratta States are &waver excluded frbm the present survey ; as are also the Khandesh District [Baglana] or basin of the Tapti between the Satpura mountains and the Chandor hills ; and the whole of the Nasik District ; and all the six northern subdivisions of the Ahmadnagar District forming with the Nasik District between the Chandor and the Ahmadnagar hills the fluviatile area wherei [...] Europeans are the most conspicuous masks crests and peaks of the semicircular spui forming the southern watershed of the affluents from ihe Malsaj Ghat the Tal Ghat and the Bhor Ghat of thelbeautiful Ulhas or Kalyan river the principal river of the Northern Konkan ; a corresponding semicircular spur is the southern watershed of the affluents from the Bhor Ghat and the Sava Ghat of the Am [...] The Poona hills originate in the territory [jaghir] of the Pant Sacheo of Bhor in a maze of spurs merging in the course of 10 or 12 miles in the spur that stretches south of Poona separating the strath of the northern affluent of tile Bhima from the dale of the Mira the main affluent of the Bhima from the south.
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Pages
393
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143063
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xxxi C.M. Birdwood view
The South-West Monsoon
1-16 C.M. Birdwood view
A Sunset on Matheran
17-24 C.M. Birdwood view
The Mahratta Plough
25-88 C.M. Birdwood view
Sett Premchund Roychund
89-92 C.M. Birdwood view
The Rajputs in the History of Hindustan1
93-148 C.M. Birdwood view
Aryan Flora and Fauna1
149-158 C.M. Birdwood view
The Muharram in Bombay1
159-182 C.M. Birdwood view
Lepper in India
183-200 C.M. Birdwood view
The Empire of the Hittites in the History of Art1
201-224 C.M. Birdwood view
Oriental Carpets1
225-298 C.M. Birdwood view
Indian Unrest
299-320 C.M. Birdwood view
the Christmas Tree1
321-358 C.M. Birdwood view
Index
359-362 C.M. Birdwood view

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