cover image: Selections from the Calcutta Review  Vol. VIII  June 1895 to January 1898  Containing Articles from Nos. CL to CLVI October 1882 to July 1883

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Selections from the Calcutta Review Vol. VIII June 1895 to January 1898 Containing Articles from Nos. CL to CLVI October 1882 to July 1883

1896

The ships of the English and the Dutch with the vessels of the Moors which arrive daily on account of the commodiousness of the roadstead and merchants of Ispahan Shiraz and Laar who bring their goods there such as velvet taffetas raw silk and who come in search of others will in course of time make this town one of the largest in the whole East." lie speaks of the fortifications built [...] Whilst this dispute was going on an Indian carriage drawn by two white oxen and sent by the English president arrived to take Mandelslo to the lodge as the houses of the English and of the Dutch were called so that he left the Governor with the bracelet and entered the chariot. [...] Some of the bystanders poured several jugs of oil upon the pile which finished the reduction of the body to ashes whilst all the rest of the company uttered lamentations that rent the air; and would have prevented those of the widow from being heard if she had had tone to give forth any in the fire which overwhelmed her with the quickness of lightning At last the ashes were thrown into Ve. [...] All the rest of the company stood in front of the Viceroy except a few gentlemen who took charge of Madelslo and of some Englishmen leading them to a window of the hall to converse with them whilst the Viceroy and the president conferred with each other upon the articles in question. [...] The Europeans alone remained in their own quarters and saved their property whilst all the rest of the town was plundered except the house of the capuchin When the freebooters had reached their convent they passed obeyond it according to the orders of their chief because on the evening of the first day Father Ambroise the superior of the capuchins being touched with compassion for the poor.
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484
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144382
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
Mandelslo and Thevenot ; Their Travels in India
1-39 E. Rehatsck view
Mediaeval India
40-84 H.G. Keene view
The Aboriginal Element in the Population of Bengal
85-103 R.C. Dutt view
Legends from the Murree Hills
104-126 R.C. Temple view
The Shiahs
127-138 Edward Sell view
The Aristocracy of Behar
139-160 G.P.S. view
The Eurasian Movement of 1829-30
161-192 Thomas Edwards view
The City of Patna
193-215 H. Beveridge view
The Khalif Al-Mamun and the Mutazalas
216-241 Edward Sell view
“The Press of Calcutta” Fifty Years Ago
242-259 Thomas Edwards view
Folklore of the Headless Horseman in Northern India
260-285 R.C. Temple view
Sufiism
286-309 Edward Sell view
Bulandshahr :-A District Sketch
310-329 F.R. Growse view
The Kanjars of Upper India
330-360 John Nesfield view
Fire-Making as a Test of Race
261-291 John Nesfield view
The Foundations of Aryan Law
292-308 H.G. Keene view
The Vicissitudes of the City of Baghdad from its Foundation Till Our Times
309-357 E. Rehatsek view
Folk-Songs from Northern India
358-380 R.C. Temple view

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