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Travels in India Including Sinde and the Punjab

1845

Entrance into Delhi.— Description of Delhi.— The Jarnma mosque.—Arrival of several rajahs.—Their audience of the Governor General.— The Rajah of Bickaneer and the Rajah of Bhurtpoor.—Audience of the Rajahs of Bhurtpoor and of Alwar.— The feast of Moharram.— The Feroze Cotelah.— The observatory.— The palace of Delhi or Jehun-Abad and the present king.—The peacock throne.—The Cootteb-Minar. [...] Journey to Cawnpoor.— The town and the neigbbpurhood.— Journey to Lucknow.—Historical notices of the kingdom of Oude.—Lucknow.—House of the British Resident.— Combats of elephants.— The country palaces of the King of Oude.— Nasseeree-Baugh and Padsha-Baugh.— The Mews.— The palace of Constantia.— The Observatory.— The road from Husan-Abad.— The tombs of Imam-Bara and Husan-Abad. [...] The marble palaces of the king arid of his wives lie along the river to the south of the Dewan Khas ; and the residences of the princes the baths and the"AUDIENCE OF THE KING. [...] Want of nationality among the Indians the despotic government of their princes and the degenerate morals of their courts will favour the attainment of this end and the more gradually it is done the less will be the sacrifices and the more inconsiderable the dangers. [...] We rode along the bank of the river by a road made during the famine in 1838 and passed the ruins of the palaces in which the nobles resided during the reign of Akbar the Great.
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Pages
325
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146166
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view
Letter VIII. To Alexander Von Humboldt
1-35 Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view
Letter IX. To Carl Ritter
36-82 Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view
Letter X. To Alexander Von Humboldt
83-140 Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view
Letter XI. To Carl Ritter
141-165 Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view
Letter XII. To Alexander Von Humboldt
166-242 Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view
Letter XIII. To Alexander Von Humboldt
243-282 Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view
Index
283-314 Leopold Orlich, H. Lloyd view

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