The Calcutta Review, Volume 18University of Calcutta., 1852 - India |
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Page 67
... native character oftener than he does the bright . In Phálgun , the eleventh month of the Hindus , the most considerable festival is celebrated in honour of Krishna , and is termed Dol or the Holi festival . The Holi festival is held in ...
... native character oftener than he does the bright . In Phálgun , the eleventh month of the Hindus , the most considerable festival is celebrated in honour of Krishna , and is termed Dol or the Holi festival . The Holi festival is held in ...
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... natives themselves acknowledge their debasing tendency , and would rejoice even at their forcible suppression . But ... native officials on these days , as an infringement of the rights of con- science . Conscience has nothing at all to ...
... natives themselves acknowledge their debasing tendency , and would rejoice even at their forcible suppression . But ... native officials on these days , as an infringement of the rights of con- science . Conscience has nothing at all to ...
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... natives of the low country , whom they regard as a race of swindlers and extortioners . " " Local attachments are very predominant , and an eventual return to their natal village continues to be the cherished hope of those whom the want ...
... natives of the low country , whom they regard as a race of swindlers and extortioners . " " Local attachments are very predominant , and an eventual return to their natal village continues to be the cherished hope of those whom the want ...
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... natives of the lower hills , the Bhótiya dialect seems gradually to be disappearing , and at no very distant date it will probably become extinct , giving place to the Hindi spoken in other parts of the province . Although the almost ...
... natives of the lower hills , the Bhótiya dialect seems gradually to be disappearing , and at no very distant date it will probably become extinct , giving place to the Hindi spoken in other parts of the province . Although the almost ...
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... natives of the hills . In a country like this , the influence of the European officers of Government may undoubtedly be exercised with the greatest advantage . But let them take care that they do not attempt too much . Let them use the ...
... natives of the hills . In a country like this , the influence of the European officers of Government may undoubtedly be exercised with the greatest advantage . But let them take care that they do not attempt too much . Let them use the ...
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Agra amongst ancient appointments army believe Bengal Bhótiyas Bombay brahmans British cadetship Calcutta called Captain chaplains character chief Chitpur cholera Christian church civil Colonel colony Commodore Company's Court of Directors Diamond Harbour disease districts doubt duties East India Company England English establishment European fact festival give given Government Government of India Governor Greek ground Gurhwál hands hills Himalaya Hindu India House inhabitants interest Jerusalem Job Charnock Kaffirs Kumaon land language Lord Ellenborough Madras matter means ment military missionary Mohammedan Moore mountains native North Western Provinces obtained officers opinion party pass patronage Persian plains Pococke population present provinces question Rajputs Rangoon Rangoon river readers regard residence river road rupees Sanscrit servants sion Society temple thing Tibet tion town travellers tribes village Warren Hastings whole word
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Page 266 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem! may my ' right hand forget its cunning...
Page xxv - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 114 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...
Page 206 - In order to cultivate and improve the relations of amity, and peace hereby established between the two Governments, it is agreed, that accredited ministers, retaining an escort, or safeguard of fifty men, from each, shall reside at the Durbar of the other, who shall be permitted to purchase, or to build a suitable place of residence, of permanent materials ; and a Commercial Treaty, upon principles of reciprocal advantage, will be entered into by the two high contracting Powers.
Page 476 - Facilities of official advancement can little affect the bulk of the people under any Government, and perhaps least under a good Government. It is not by holding out incentives to official ambition, but by repressing crime, by securing and guarding property, by creating confidence, by ensuring to industry the fruit of its labour, by protecting men in the undisturbed enjoyment of their rights, and in the unfettered exercise of their faculties, that Governments best minister to the public wealth and...
Page 300 - I have been at church, my dear girl, in my new palanquin, (the mode of genteel conveyance) where all ladies are approached, by sanction of ancient custom, by all gentlemen indiscriminately, known or unknown, with offers of their hand to conduct them to their seat ; accordingly, those gentlemen who wish to change their condition (which, between ourselves, are chiefly old fellows, for the young...
Page 89 - ... villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives : a generation may pass away, but the succeeding generation will return ; the sons will take the place of their fathers, the same site for the village, the same position for the houses, the same lands will be occupied by the...
Page 304 - India should be governed from a palace, ' not from a counting-house, with the ideas of a prince, not ' with those of a retail-dealer in muslins and indigo.
Page 235 - He moved — in the •"holy fields Over -whose acres walked those blessed feet Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed For our advantage, on the bitter cross...
Page 473 - ... trustworthiness. Hitherto they have not been admitted to any situations in which there is not a controlling European authority over them; but there is hardly any situation, admitting of that control, to which they are not now eligible; or if there be any such, there is a constant tendency to open such situations to them. They have now, especially in the Bengal and Agra provinces, almost the whole of the administration of justice in the first instance, subject to appeal to Europeans. They are...