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Constable’s Oriental Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications. Letters from A Mahratta Camp during the year 1809. Descriptive of the Character Manners Domestic Habits and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas

1892

The work is thrown into the form cf a series of letters to the Author's brother who seems to have represented to him that since the war which was illustrated by the victory of Assaye a considerable interest in the Manrattas had been excited in England and that the Commander of the Resident's escort was in a position to gratify the natural curi ity of the public. [...] The part of the country to which the letters almost exclusively relate is Rajpootana which was eighty years ago like the Laigh of Mora y in the 17th century a place "where all men take their prey." Speaking generally we may say that the theatre of the scehes described was the valley of the Chumbul and of the streams which feed it more'especially the Banas together with the tangled hills"xxiv [...] The head of the race Jeswunt Rao had indeed after a long course of atrocity gone fairly out of his mind ; the nominal ruler was a child of four years old the son of one of his cocubines and the government was in the hands of a Regency controlled by the notorious Mussulman adveturer Ameer Khan ; but even he went off to pursue the designs which ended in the consolidation of his power in [...] In the ninth letter the even madder follies of the Hohlee the vernal festival of the Hindus are fully detailed while"xxvi INTRODUCTION the tenth contains a very edifying narrative of the fecklesness with which the army of Scindia conducted the siege of Doonee a small fort belonging to a near relation of the ruler of Jeypore. [...] This is the see son of the Bitszint or spring of the the family of the worshipper ; to the Vastu devas the Dii Lares or domestic genii ; the guardians of the dwelling or the site on which it is erected ; and to the Viswa devas or universal gods.",History"A MAHRATTA CAMP 37 Hindoos.
history
Pages
303
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144921
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Frontmatter
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Letter I
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Letter II
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Letter III
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Letter IV
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Letter V
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Letter VI
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Letter VII
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Letter VIII
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Letter IX
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Letter X
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Letter XI
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Letter XII
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Letter XIII
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Letter XIV
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Letter XV
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Letter XVI
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Letter XXIII
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Letter XXIV
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Letter XXV
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Letter XXVI
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Letter XXVII
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Letter XXVIII
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Letter XXIX
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Letter XXX
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Letter XXXI
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Letter XXXII
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Index
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