Indian Railways as Connected with British Empire in the EastW.H. Allen & Company, 1884 - 296 páginas |
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... hundred miles off there might be scarcity ; whilst still further beyond , but yet not very remote , famine raged . Wandering gipsy - like tribes , called Brinjaras , followed armies with stores , or carried salt , coarse sugar and grain ...
... hundred miles off there might be scarcity ; whilst still further beyond , but yet not very remote , famine raged . Wandering gipsy - like tribes , called Brinjaras , followed armies with stores , or carried salt , coarse sugar and grain ...
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... hundred miles of roads , of which only one half were passable in the rains . All the towns of the interior were during that season so many isolated points ; and however important it might The creation of the Public Works Department by ...
... hundred miles of roads , of which only one half were passable in the rains . All the towns of the interior were during that season so many isolated points ; and however important it might The creation of the Public Works Department by ...
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... hundred engineer , cavalry , and infantry officers were required to go from Calcutta to the north - west frontier of India . They were sent at the public expense , and with the greatest despatch ! The Postmaster - General could only ...
... hundred engineer , cavalry , and infantry officers were required to go from Calcutta to the north - west frontier of India . They were sent at the public expense , and with the greatest despatch ! The Postmaster - General could only ...
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... hundreds of English- men employed in other works , it would be strange if there were not some who possessed the mere animal instincts of courage and strength , and capacity for physical exertion , in a higher degree than that ...
... hundreds of English- men employed in other works , it would be strange if there were not some who possessed the mere animal instincts of courage and strength , and capacity for physical exertion , in a higher degree than that ...
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... to be endured and surmounted . As if the few poor wretches of low caste , who crawl for some hundreds of miles on their stomachs to Juggernauth to gain a profitable reputation for sanctity were to be c.viii PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... to be endured and surmounted . As if the few poor wretches of low caste , who crawl for some hundreds of miles on their stomachs to Juggernauth to gain a profitable reputation for sanctity were to be c.viii PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION .
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advantages Agra Allahabad amount Andrew Army Author Benares Bengal boats Bombay break of gauge bridge British broad gauge Burdwan canal capital carriage carried Cartage cent charge Chhattisgarh Civil Colonel commercial communication construction conveyance cost Crown 8vo Delhi Delhi Railway distance district Ditto East India Engineer England Euphrates expenditure export favour Fcap Ferozpur frontier Ganges Government of India grain guaranteed companies Honourable Hoogly Illustrations important improved Indian railways Indus interest Jumna Kurrachee labour land length line from Calcutta London Lord Lord Dalhousie Madras maunds ment merchants metre gauge miles military Mirzapore mode native navigation North-West officers passengers Patna port portion Post 8vo Provinces Punjab rail railroad Railway Company railway system railways in India Rajmahl line revenue river roads route rupees Scinde Sir Bartle Frere stations steamers Sunderbunds tion tons trade traffic transit travelling troops trunk line vols W. H. ALLEN Western India
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