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Excerpt from Hand-Book to the Cotton Cultivation in the Madras Presidency: Exhibiting the Principal Contents of the Various Public Records and Other Works Connected With the Subject in a Condensed and Classified Form, in Accordance With a Resolution of the Government of IndiaDrill husbandry: land ploughed and cast in ridges, eight or ten inches high, at intervals of about five feet, 36, Sowing in a furrow of about two inches deep along the cen...

Excerpt from The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century, Vol. 1 of 2 The present work is an attempt to give in a popular form a complete survey of the principal nations of the ancient world as they were in the days of Pericles and Nehemiah. With this view, the author has written an imaginary biography of Herodotus, the Greek historian and geographer, who flourished in the fifth century before Christ, and by describing his supposed...

Excerpt from The History of India From the Earliest Ages, Vol. 3 The present volume is complete in itself. It tells the history of India from a Hindu, Buddhist, and Brahmanical point of view. It starts from the remotest antiquity, and reaches right down to the appearance of the English in the Eastern seas. It does not deal with the Mussulman conquest or the Mussulman empire, as those subjects can scarcely be treated thoroughly, until the Hind...

Excerpt from India Under British Rule: From the Foundation of the East India CompanyA hundred years ago, when the lively Miss Frances Burney was weeping over the wrongs of Warren Hastings, and the learned and portly Gibbon was still lamenting that he had not entered on an Indian career, there were people in the British Isles who knew something of Indian history. They had picked up information respecting Indian affairs from the speeches of the ...

Excerpt from Early Records of British India Sir Charles Trevelyan, then Governor of Madras, opened up the records of that Presidency to the compiler for the first time. The result was a publication of a series of extracts from the records and these extracts were illustrated, or rather held together, by an explanatory narrative. The work was published in three volumes under the title of Madras in the Olden Time. That portion of the present vo...

Excerpt from Indian History: Asiatic and European 1. Punjab, or 'Land of Five Rivers": Origin of Caste. - History begins in India with the Aryan conquest of the Punjab. These Aryans were more or less related to Persia, and are called Vedic, because they worshipped the gods of the oldest Yeda. They were a fair-complexioned people, who settled as colonists in the valleys of the Indus and its five tributaries, namely, the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, B...

Excerpt from The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century Before Christ, Vol. 2 of 2 Changes in the Religious Ideas and Belief of the ancient Greeks between the Times of Hesiod and Herodotus, B. 0. 750-458. Review of the Orthodox Faith as laid down by Hesiod - Ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an ...

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A short history of India - and of the frontier states of Afghanistan, Nepal, and Burma is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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