The Chiefs of Central IndiaThacker, Spink, and Company, 1879 - 233 páginas |
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adoption Agent Agra Ahalia Bai Amir Khan army Assistant Bala Barwai Bhanpura Bhil Bhilala Bhopal biga Bombay Boundary Officer Brahman British Government Bundelkhand Captain Central India Central India Agency Chambal chests Chiefs Colonel command Court cultivation Dakaiti dakaits death Deckan Dewas Dhar districts ditto Durbar duty engagement feet gaddi gang Ghât Government of India Governor-General Gwalior Hari Rao Highness Holkar family horse Indore Jabalpur Jaora Jeswant Rao Holkar Kali Khandeish Khandi Rao Khandwa lakhs land Ma-Sahiba Mahesar Mahomedan Mahratta Malhar Rao Holkar Malwa Mandessôr Martand Rao Mehidpur ment Mhow miles murder Narbadda Native Nimach Nimar opium parganna party Peishwa Pindarries plunder Police poppy Provinces Puna Railway Raja Bhao Rajput Rajputana Rampura Rao's Ratlam Resident at Indore revenue river road rupees Sahib sanad settlement Singh Thakur Sleeman Superintendent Tantia Jogh territories Thaggi thags tion treaty tribute troops Tukaji Holkar Tukaji Rao Tulsa Bai Ujjain village
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Página xciv - robbers in the world are in that country. " They use a certain rope with a running noose, " which they can cast with so much sleight about " a man's neck, when they are within reach of him, " that they never fail, so that they strangle him in a
Página ii - What rainbow tints, what magic charms are found ! " Rock, river, forest, mountain, all abound; " And bluest skies that harmonize the whole. " Beneath, the distant torrent's rushing sound " Tells where the volnmed cataract doth roll,
Página xvii - They ply their watery tasks: At sunrise they leap From their cradles' steep In the cave of the shelving hill ; At noontide they flow Through the woods below And the meadows of
Página lxxxvi - the washings with the filtrate, concentrate the whole to the bulk of half an ounce, and add now solution of ammonia in slight excess. After twenty-four hours collect the precipitated morphia on a weighed filter, wash it with cold water, and dry it at 212°. It ought to weigh, at least, from six to eight grains.
Página 134 - territories. should be perpetuated, and that the representation and dignity of their houses should be continued. I hereby. in fulfilment of this desire, repeat to you the assurance already communicated to you in my kharita of
Página xcv - what she hath begun. But, besides that, there " are men in those quarters so skilful in casting the " snare that they succeed as well at a distance as " near at hand ; and if an ox or any other beast " belonging to a caravan run away, they fail not
Página xciv - of some misfortunes which she pretends has " befallen her. Now, as she takes the same way that " the traveller goes, he easily falls into conversation " with her, and finding her beautiful, offers her his " assistance, which she accepts; but he hath no " sooner taken her up behind him on horseback, but " she throws the snare about his neck and strangles
Página xxxiv - is, has been, and shall be— He is the Lord of immortality ! The Brahman was his mouth, the kingly soldier Was made his arms, the husbandman his thighs, The servile Sudra issued from his feet.
Página 205 - arising, whatever adjustment the Company's Government, weighing matters in the scale of truth and justice, may determine, shall have the Maharaja's entire acquiescence. The Maharaja agrees not to send or receive
Página cxiii - • without my becoming acquainted with it; nor was " there a robber or thief, of the ordinary kind, in the " district with whose character I had not become " acquainted in the discharge of my duty as