Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections [1822-1835] Illustrating the Antiquity, Religion and Manners of the Hindoos, the Extent of British Conquests, and the Progress of Missionary Operations, 2. köideT. Ward & Company, 1840 - 478 pages |
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... Female biography- Domestic sketch - Husband's death - Wife's desolation - Preparations for the funeral pile - The ... females in India- Modern improvements for education , & c . TRAVELLING REMINISCENCES . P. 198-383 . A change of ...
... Female biography- Domestic sketch - Husband's death - Wife's desolation - Preparations for the funeral pile - The ... females in India- Modern improvements for education , & c . TRAVELLING REMINISCENCES . P. 198-383 . A change of ...
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... Female education , Mrs. Wilson- A visit to the native ladies - A scene - Periodical literature - Native printing establishments - Duty of the friends of literature and religion . *** The MAP of CONTINENTAL INDIA , prefixed to this work ...
... Female education , Mrs. Wilson- A visit to the native ladies - A scene - Periodical literature - Native printing establishments - Duty of the friends of literature and religion . *** The MAP of CONTINENTAL INDIA , prefixed to this work ...
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... The building was not erected , nor are the two chaplains paid , by the liberality of the people . The road continues onward till we reach the Spur Tank and the garden- houses of Kilpauk . The Female Asylum is one of 12 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
... The building was not erected , nor are the two chaplains paid , by the liberality of the people . The road continues onward till we reach the Spur Tank and the garden- houses of Kilpauk . The Female Asylum is one of 12 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
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... Female Asylum is one of the last buildings till the traveller has fairly entered the country . This institution deserves a passing notice ; is supported by government liberality . The matron was an elderly lady , the widow of a German ...
... Female Asylum is one of the last buildings till the traveller has fairly entered the country . This institution deserves a passing notice ; is supported by government liberality . The matron was an elderly lady , the widow of a German ...
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... females ; the distance which is maintained between the Asiatics and their conquerors ; and the small number of Europeans who have hitherto traversed the extensive lands of India ; have prevented the establishment of hotels in the ...
... females ; the distance which is maintained between the Asiatics and their conquerors ; and the small number of Europeans who have hitherto traversed the extensive lands of India ; have prevented the establishment of hotels in the ...
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