cover image: Chota Nagpore. A Little-known Province of the Empire

Premium

20.500.12592/c64jb4

Chota Nagpore. A Little-known Province of the Empire

1903

The far-off hills in the background in exquisite tints of blue or purple as the light falls the nearer hills picturesquely shaped and luxuriant in every shade of green with their bold escarpments in black or grey andSOME LEGENDS AND A LITTLE HISTORY 3 the plains below furnishing their quota of colour in the tender green of the early rice the brilliant yellow of the sirguja or the gold of the f [...] Save only in the mining districts and on the outskirts of the province along the lines of rail the primitiveness that forms not the least of the charms of Chota Nagpore is still undisturbed. [...] In 1840 the headquarters of the Agency were transferred from Lohardaga to Kishanpur one of the small villages of which the present station of Ranchi is made up and which occupied the site at the northern end of the town where the gaol now stands. [...] With the exception of the Hos of Singbhum and the Santals—both of whom demand a chapter to themselves-- the Mundas are physically the finest of all the aboriginal tribes. [...] The other scene is the great Mohurrum festival held by the Mahomedans in honour of Hosain the grandson of the Prophet who was slain on the field of Barb°la on the banks of the Euphrates.
history
Pages
364
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146126
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiv F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter I.Some Legends and a Little History
1-21 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter II.Many Races and Some Quaint Customs
22-53 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter III.Old Chutia Nagpur
54-81 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter IV.The Land of the Hos
82-110 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter V.Life in a Santal Village
111-136 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter VI.The Sacred Hill of Parasnath
137-153 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter VII.The Gateway of Chota Nagpore
154-177 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter VIII. A Tramp on the Grand Trunk Road
178-202 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter IX.Some Memories of the Mutiny
203-228 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter X.The Gander of a Thousand Trees
229-248 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter XI.The Crowning of a Raja
249-273 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Chapter XII.A Vanishing Bit of Chota Nagpore
274-302 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Appendix
303-304 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Index
305-310 F.B. Bradley-Birt view
Backmatter
i-i F.B. Bradley-Birt view

Related Topics

All