Asiatic NeighboursW. Blackwood and Sons, 1894 - 315 páginas |
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... population - Rivers - Mountains - Seasons- The muzhik - Numbers and distribution - Great Russians- Migratory habits - Tartar dominion - Its effects - Rise of auto- cratic form of rule - The first Tzar of Russia - Enslavement of the ...
... population - Rivers - Mountains - Seasons- The muzhik - Numbers and distribution - Great Russians- Migratory habits - Tartar dominion - Its effects - Rise of auto- cratic form of rule - The first Tzar of Russia - Enslavement of the ...
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... populations , and whose intimacies have been with fellow - Englishmen , to whom may be added , as occasional callers and informers , a few educated natives . If , then , the highest officials of the empire , whether heads of Governments ...
... populations , and whose intimacies have been with fellow - Englishmen , to whom may be added , as occasional callers and informers , a few educated natives . If , then , the highest officials of the empire , whether heads of Governments ...
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... it be remembered that the population of India -nearly 300 millions - is still mostly agricultural , increased in the decade preceding the last census by A peas- ant's in- taxation . 28 millions , 1 LOOSENING THE BONDS OF EMPIRE . 31.
... it be remembered that the population of India -nearly 300 millions - is still mostly agricultural , increased in the decade preceding the last census by A peas- ant's in- taxation . 28 millions , 1 LOOSENING THE BONDS OF EMPIRE . 31.
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... population in the decade 1881-1891 is 28 millions . 2 The account works out as follows . The receipt side is liberal for an uninvolved peasant proprietor : - Receipts . Value of gross produce of eight cultivated acres at £ 1 an acre ...
... population in the decade 1881-1891 is 28 millions . 2 The account works out as follows . The receipt side is liberal for an uninvolved peasant proprietor : - Receipts . Value of gross produce of eight cultivated acres at £ 1 an acre ...
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... population - two - thirds Hindus and one - third Muhammadans - now numbering 71 mil- lions , or nearly twice that of the United Kingdom , and ten millions more than that of the United States . For centuries before the battle of Plassey ...
... population - two - thirds Hindus and one - third Muhammadans - now numbering 71 mil- lions , or nearly twice that of the United Kingdom , and ten millions more than that of the United States . For centuries before the battle of Plassey ...
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