The Indian Empire: Its Peoples, History, and ProductsTrübner, 1886 - 747 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
aboriginal acres Afghán Afghánistán Akbar ancient army Aryan Assam Aurangzeb Behar Bombay Bráhmans British India Buddha Buddhist Burma Calcutta capital caste Catholic Central Provinces century A.D. chief Christian Church coast Company conquest Court cultivation Deccan Delhi dialects Districts doctrine Dravidian dynasty East Emperor English European faith famine Firishta Ganges Gazetteer of India Government Greek Himalayas Hindu Hinduism Imperial Gazetteer Indus irrigation Jahán Jains Kábul Kandh Khán King kingdom land revenue language legend Lord Lower Bengal Madras Malabar Maráthás Megasthenes ment miles millions sterling missionaries modern Mughal Empire Muhammadan Musalmán Mysore Nágá native non-Aryan North-Western Provinces Northern Orissa Oudh Persian Peshwá population Portuguese Prákrit princes Punjab races Rájá Rájputs religion religious river rule Sakya Sanskrit Santáls Scythian Scythic sect settlements Shah Sikh Siva Southern India territory Thomas tion trade tribes Veda Vedic vernaculars village Vishnu Vishnuite Western worship
Popular passages
Page 83 - Where there is eternal light, in the world where the sun is placed, in that immortal, imperishable world, place me, O Soma. " Where King Vaivasvata reigns, where the secret place of heaven is, where these mighty waters are : there make me immortal.
Page 371 - The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade : — 'tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade: 'tis that must make us a nation in India...
Page 371 - ... tis that must make us a nation in India. Without that we are but a great number of interlopers, united by His Majesty's royal charter, fit only to trade where nobody of power thinks it their interest to prevent us. And upon this account it is that the wise Dutch, in all their general advices that we have seen, write ten paragraphs concerning their government, their civil and military policy, warfare, and the increase of their revenue, for one paragraph they write concerning trade.
Page 126 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth, and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala ! and all at once is said.
Page 83 - Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who gives life. He who gives strength ; whose blessing all the bright gods desire ; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who through his power is the only king of the breathing and awakening world.
Page 141 - The secret of Buddha's success was that he brought spiritual deliverance to the people. He preached that salvation was equally open to all men, and that it must be earned, not by propitiating imaginary deities, but by our own conduct. His doctrines thus cut away the religious basis of caste, impaired the efficiency of the sacrificial ritual, and assailed the supremacy of the Brdhmans as the mediators between God and man.
Page 684 - On this point we may refer to our memorandum on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India for 1889.
Page 613 - Several members of one family often work together, earning between them as much as ,£10 a month. The hours of work are from six in the morning to six at night, with an hour allowed in the middle of the day for meals and smoking.
Page 235 - And the report is, that he there found his own arrival anticipated by some who there were acquainted with the gospel of Matthew, to whom Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached, and had left them the gospel of Matthew in the Hebrew, which was also preserved until this time.
Page 404 - Whose constant study it was, to elevate the intellectual And moral character of The Nations committed to his charge...