cover image: A Brief History of the Indian People

Premium

20.500.12592/hr5jg5

A Brief History of the Indian People

1886

The first includes the Hfinalavanamountains which shut India out from the rest of Asia on the north; the second stretches southwards from their foot and coprises the plains of the great rivers which issue from the Himalayas ; the third tract slopes upwards again from the southern edge of the river - plains and consists of a high three-sided tableland dotted with peaks and covering the sou [...] Of the three great rivers of India the two longest—namely the Indus and the Brahmputra—take their rise in this trough lying on the north of the double wall of the Himalayas ; while the third the Ganges receives the drainage of their southern slopes. [...] It bears the name of the Waal-for nearly a thousand miles of its course behind the Himálayan wall and it is not till it bursts through the mountains into India that the noble stream receives its Sanskrit name of Brahmaputra the son of Brahma or God The Ganges and its ureat trilmtary the Tutilia eollect the drainage southern slopes of the Himalayas ; they join their waters to those of the Brahm [...] The drainage has therefore to make its way right across India to the eastwards now twisting round hill ranges now rushing down the valleys between them until the rain which the Bombay sea-breeze dropped upon the Western Ghats finally falls into the Bay of Bengal: In this way the three great rivers of the Madras Presidency—namely the Godavari the Krishna and the 'Caved—rise in the mountains [...] The heads of the other Provinces are chosen for their merit from theAnglo-Indian services almost always from the Civil Service and are nomiated by the Viceroy subject in the case of the LieutenanGovernorships to the approval of the Secretary of State.
history
Pages
233
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142165
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-12 W.W. Hunter view
Chapter I. The Country
13-26 unknown view
Chapter II. The People
27-32 unknown view
Chapter III. The Non-Aryans
33-43 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Aryans in India
44-64 unknown view
Chapter V. Buddhism—543 B.C. to 1000. A.D.
65-74 unknown view
Chapter VI. The Greeks in India 327 to 161 B.O.
75-79 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Scythic Inroads from about 100 B.C. to 500 A.D.
80-83 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Growth of Hinduism 700 to 1500 A.D.
84-97 unknown view
Chapter IX. Early Muhammadan Conquerors 714-1526 A.D.
98-119 unknown view
Chapter X. The Mughal Dynasty 1526-1761
120-142 unknown view
Chapter XI. The Marhattas 1650-1818
143-149 unknown view
Chapter XII. Early European Settlements 1500-1700
150-160 unknown view
Chapter XIII. The Foundation of British Rule in india 1746-1805
161-183 unknown view
Chapter XIV. The Consolidation of British India
184-204 unknown view
Chapter XV. The Mutiny 1857
205-211 unknown view
Chapter XVI. India under the British Crown
212-217 unknown view
Index
218-224 unknown view
Backmatter
i-v unknown view

Related Topics

All