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History of British India [Continued to the close of the year 1854]

1857

Pojoicings on the termination of the Afghan War—Desire for the consolidation of the British possessions in India—Disturbances in Slade—Hostile manifestations of the Ameres—Sir Cherie Napier assumes the command in Sinde—Faithless proceedings of the Ameers—Attack on the British Resident—Battle of Hyderabad—Defeat of the Sindian and Belechee fqfces—Important effects of the Victory—Battle of Dobbs— St [...] Its vast plains present the double harvests the luxuriant foliage 'and even the burning deserts of the torrid zone ; the lower heights are enriched by the fruits and grains of the temperate climates; the upper steeps are clothed with the vast pine forests of the north; while the highest pinnacles are buried beneath the perpetual snows of the arctic zone. [...] High cultivation tofrequently obstructed by public disorders and the ruder character of the people is alone wanting to make it rival the finest portions of the more eastern territory.* Throughout the whole of this vast plain the wants of the population and the demands of commerce have entirely supeseded the original productions of nature and substituted plants and grains better fitted fo [...] On the more smooth and level portions of this dreary tract the traveller is tantalized by the phenomenon of the mirage producing before him the appeaance of immense lakes that even reflect the surrounding objects; and the illusion continues till he has almost touched the watery semblance and finds it to consist of the same arid soil as (the rest of the desert. [...] The most elevated part of this stupendous range is that to the north of Bengal along the heads of the Gogra the Ganges and the Jumna and westward as far as the Sutledge.
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Pages
739
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SARF Document ID
sarf.145771
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Frontmatter
i-xvi Hugh Murray view
Chapter I. General View of The Natural Features of India
1-26 Hugh Murray view
Chapter II. Knowledge of India Among the Ancients
27-47 Hugh Murray view
Chapter III. Portuguese Discovery of the Passage to India
48-72 Hugh Murray view
Chapter IV. Portuguese Settlement and Conquests in India
73-119 Hugh Murray view
Chapter v. Early English Voyages and Settlements
120-156 Hugh Murray view
Chapter VI. Early Mohammedan Conquests in India
157-177 Hugh Murray view
Chapter VII. The Patan or Afghan Dynasty
178-198 Hugh Murray view
Chapter VIII. The Mogul Dynasty to Aurengzebe
199-239 Hugh Murray view
Chapter IX. Aurengzebe—Decline of the Mogul Dynasty
240-279 Hugh Murray view
Chapter X. British Conquest of the Carnatic
280-311 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XI. British Conquest of Bengal
312-341 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XII. War with Mtsore
342-381 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XIII. Conquest of Mysore
382-439 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XIV. Mahratta War and Conquest of Central Hindostan
440-492 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XV. Pindarree War—Conquest of the Mahrattas Etc
493-544 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XVI. The Afghan War
545-601 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XVII. The War in Sinde and Gowalior
602-628 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XVIII. War in the Punjaub
629-654 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XIX. War in Moultan and the Punjaub
655-671 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XX. The Punjaud after its Conquest Etc
672-693 Hugh Murray view
Chapter XXI. Conclusion
694-718 Hugh Murray view
Index
719-723 Hugh Murray view

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