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The North-Western Provinces of India. Their History Ethnology and Administration

1897

Bengal the land of the Vanga tribe is not found in common use before the eleventh century ; Bombay the shrine of the goddess Mamba Devi is at least as old as the middle of the fifteenth and Madras the original A"NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES OF INDIA meaning of which is obscure dates from the middle of the seventeenth century. [...] Here are nearly all the shrines of the discredited creed the scenes of the birth the preaching the death of the Teacher. [...] From the top of China which rises over the lake and station of Naini TA! we look over the lovely wooded mountains of the Gagar range clothed thick with oak and pine mingled with the gorgeous flowers of the rhododendron and thence to the forest of the Bhábar which lies almost at our feet ; beyond it the swamps of the Tarai and then in the dim distance the green plain of Rohilkhand. [...] His oxen refreshed by the enforced rest of the rains and strengthened by the fresh store of herbage are ready for the hard work of the early winter the continuous series of ploughings for the wheat and barley the severe exertion of hauling the laden water buckets from the depths of the well. [...] Thus in all the Plain there is perhaps no pleasanter view than from the battlements of the Fatehgarh fort whence are seen the pleasure house of the Nawt1b the minarets of the Karbala mosque the rich greenery of the hunting preserve and far in the distance the faint silver line of the Ganges.
history
Pages
388
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146158
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xi W. Crooke view
Chapter I The Land in Its Physical Aspect
1-57 W. Crooke view
Chapter II The Province under Hindu and Musalmān Rule
58-124 W. Crooke view
Chapter III The Province under British Rule
125-194 W. Crooke view
Chapter IV The People: Their Ethnology and Sociology
195-233 W. Crooke view
Chapter V The Religious and Social Life of the People
234-279 W. Crooke view
Chapter VI The Land and Its Settlement
280-319 W. Crooke view
Chapter VII The Peasant and the Land
320-356 W. Crooke view
Index
357-361 W. Crooke view
Backmatter
i-i W. Crooke view

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