Tales from Indian History: Being the Annals of India Retold in Narratives ...W. Thacker & Company, 1881 - 271 Seiten |
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Seite 242 - Victoria announced the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown of Great Britain.
Seite 33 - Might be a Peri's Paradise ! But crimson now her rivers ran With human blood — the smell of death Came reeking from those spicy bowers, And man, the sacrifice of man, Mingled his taint with every breath Upwafted from the innocent flowers ! Land of the Sun ! what foot invades Thy pagods and thy pillar'd shades...
Seite 11 - Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India ; their Haunts and Habits, from Personal Observation ; with an account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Wild Elephants. By GP SANDERSON, Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Keddahs at Mysore. With 21 full page Illustrations and three Maps.
Seite 63 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Seite 10 - History of the Organisation, Equipment, and War Services of THE REGIMENT OF BENGAL ARTILLERY. Compiled from Published Official and other Records, and various private sources, by Major Francis W. Stubbs, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery. Vol. I. will contain WAR SERVICES.
Seite 21 - Jasan. — A SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Being an Abridgment of Professor Wilson's Dictionary. With an Appendix explaining the use of Affixes in Sanskrit. By Pandit RAM JASAN, Queen's College, Benares. Published under the Patronage of the Government, NWP Royal 8vo. cloth, pp. ii. and 707.
Seite 12 - THE INDIAN COOKERY BOOK. A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK TO THE KITCHEN IN INDIA: ADAPTED TO THE THREE PRESIDENCIES. Containing Original and Approved Recipes in every department of Indian Cookery^ ; Recipes for Summer Beverages and Home-made Liqueurs ; Medicinal and other Recipes ; together with a variety of things worth knowing. BY A THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
Seite 8 - The birds of India, being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India...
Seite 168 - Control, consisting of six members of the Privy Council, was instituted to control the affairs of the East India Company in England ; and Lord Cornwallis, who was altogether independent of the Company, was appointed Governor-General of India, whilst the members of Council in Bengal were once more selected from the servants of the Company.
Seite 6 - Us. 2-8. A Handbook for Visitors to Agra and its Neighbourhood. 'By HG KEENE, CS Fourth Edition. Revised. Maps, Plans, &c. Fcap. 8vo., cloth. Rs. 2-8.