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Bengal Past & Present January—March 1932

1932

The Manikarnika Ghat is one of the five celebrated places of pilgrimage.in Benares the other four being the junctions (Sangam) of the Asi and the Barna with the Ganges and the Panchganga and Dasaswamedh Ghats. [...] (I) Sir Richard Burn who has compared the photograph of the picture with the plate in the book of views informs the writer that earth has now covered not only the fine row of steps but also the greater part of the upper steps leading along the front of the building to the central buttress."12 BENGAL : PAST AND PRESENT. [...] THERE are a number of scattered documents of the Home Department in the Imperial Record Department Calcutta which throw an interesting sidelight on the relations between the Bengal Government and the Kingdom of Siam in the latter part of the eighteenth century. [...] From the letters mentioned above and also from the letter addressed to the Governor of Madras by the First Minister of Siam in 1777 (7) it is clear that the object of the correspondence on the part of the Siamese Government was to dissuade the English from helping the Burmese the traditional enemies (1) Home Dept. [...] The correspondence breaks off at this point but we learn from the Public Letter to the Court on December 14 1792 (18) paragraphs 60-61 that an embassy was sent from Siam to the settlement at Prince of Wales Island for the purpose of demanding help in the projected conquest of Ava in the form of two armed vessels to assist in conveying rice for the use of the Siamese army.
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Pages
82
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120279
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Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
A Great Civilian : George Carnal Barnes C.B. I.C.S
1-9 L. S. S. O’malley view
“Ghats at Benares”
10-12 Evan Cotton view
Correspondence between Siam and Bengal in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
13-21 S.C. Sarkar view
The Old Rewari Cantonment
22-26 H. Bullock view
The Oldest Christian Tomb in Calcutta
27-29 Mesrovb Seth view
Some Soldiers of Fortune
30-36 H. Bullock view
A Link with Old Calcutta
37-40 Evan Cotton view
A Note on the Earl of Denbigh’s Visit to India in 1631
41-42 Harihar Das view
Our Library Table
43-49 unknown view
The Editor’s Note Book
50-60 unknown view
Calcutta Historical Society
61-i A. F. M. Ali view
The Twentyfifth Anniversary of the Calcutta Historical Society
65-72 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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