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... miles away , checking and preparing reports and returns , and propounding and answering depart- mental conundrums which " no man could under- stand " -so involved and confusing are the rules which grow up under a bureaucracy . As ...
... miles away , checking and preparing reports and returns , and propounding and answering depart- mental conundrums which " no man could under- stand " -so involved and confusing are the rules which grow up under a bureaucracy . As ...
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... mile of cultivation , and that hitherto England's selfish commercial policy has prevented the reasonable development of Indian industries , the severity of the struggle for existence throughout a continent nearly every part of which ...
... mile of cultivation , and that hitherto England's selfish commercial policy has prevented the reasonable development of Indian industries , the severity of the struggle for existence throughout a continent nearly every part of which ...
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... miles . Popula- tion in millions . Density per sq . mile . United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland . 121 38 314 Indian Empire British ( including Burma ) . 965 221 229 Native States 595 66 111 Total Indian Empire , 1891 1560 287 184 ...
... miles . Popula- tion in millions . Density per sq . mile . United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland . 121 38 314 Indian Empire British ( including Burma ) . 965 221 229 Native States 595 66 111 Total Indian Empire , 1891 1560 287 184 ...
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... miles from St Petersburg , and behind it lies Siberia , a great lone land with a population of under one to the square mile . Vladivostok has a future before it when the Siberian railway , now in progress , shall be completed ; but that ...
... miles from St Petersburg , and behind it lies Siberia , a great lone land with a population of under one to the square mile . Vladivostok has a future before it when the Siberian railway , now in progress , shall be completed ; but that ...
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... miles between the Caspian and the Indus - obstacles pooh - poohed by Paul I. — the invasion for which we are still preparing might have been pushed home , and the question of Sepoy versus Cossack decided a century or so sooner than it ...
... miles between the Caspian and the Indus - obstacles pooh - poohed by Paul I. — the invasion for which we are still preparing might have been pushed home , and the question of Sepoy versus Cossack decided a century or so sooner than it ...
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