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Indian State Railways Magazine. October 1937

1937

The Coorg country is formed by the summits and eastern declivities of the Western Ghats which separate these uplands on the South and West from the forest tracts of North Malabar and South Canara ; and on the North and East merge the country into the tableland of Mysore. [...] Game of all descriptions abounds within the limits of the province from the stately dignity of the wild_ elephant to the fearless majesty of the tiger. [...] The theory of the ecliptic as rpresenting the course of the sun through the year divided among twelve constellations with a measurement of 30" to each division is also of Babylonian origin perfected after the fall of the Babylonian Empire in 539 B. C. The golden age of Babylonian astronomy belongs to the Seleucid period i.e. [...] The Samhitas however give us the name of the twelve months arranged very artificially in six seasons and they introduce to us the important doctrine of the Nakshatras or 'lunar mansions' groups of sta rs selected as roughly indicating the parts of the sky in which the moon appeared in the course of a periodic month of 27-28 days. [...] Besides those of the Kings will be found the tomb of Haiyat Baksh Begum the daughter of IbrEthim and the mother of Abdulla Kuli Kutb the last but one of the Dynasty.
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Frontmatter
227-230 unknown view
Editorial
231-231 unknown view
India’s Microcosm
231-235 N. B. H. view
The Highlands of Coorg
235-237 Fred Barrie view
The Red Earth Part II
238-243 unknown view
Sun Moon and Stars !
243-244 unknown view
A Short-lived Kingdom Golkonda and the Kuli Kutb Shahs
245-246 H. W. Wagstaff view
Afoot in Kulu
247-250 N. L. G. view
A Corner of Sunset Land
250-261 Abu Jissr view
Princes Only
262-265 Elizabeth Drummond view
Simla— Ancient and Modern
265-267 Augersfus Sumerville view
Elephants of Sorts
268-268 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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