| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...gracious kindness and bounty directed the officials of Burhanpiir, Ahmadabad, and the 1 So in the text ; but the maps give no such name between Parenda and... | |
| Hyderabad (India : State) - 1884 - 802 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. By order of the Emperor, soup kitchens were established in various parts of the kingdom, and a sum... | |
| Charles W. McMinn - Famines - 1902 - 148 pages
...flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions on the roads. Those lands which had been famous for their fertility...productiveness. The Emperor . in his gracious kindness directed the officials of Burhanpur, Ahmedabad and Surat, to establish soup kitchens or alms houses... | |
| William Foster - East Indies - 1910 - 492 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.'1 1 Equally terrible accounts of the effects of the famine may be found in Van Twist's... | |
| Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 644 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...Surat, to establish soup kitchens, or almshouses, such as are called langar in the language of Hindustan, for the benefit of the poor and destitute.... | |
| Sir Theodore Morison - Famines - 1916 - 270 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. By order of the Emperor, soup kitchens were established in various parts of the kingdom, and a sum... | |
| Economics - 1919 - 740 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty uow retained no trace of productiveness The Emperor in his gracious kindness and bounty directed the... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions on the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.' i It is impossible to reconcile the measurement and cost of the peacock throne as stated by Tavernier... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 868 pages
...the dying caused obstructions on the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not terminate jn death and who retained the power to move wandered...plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.' The details of the horrible picture are set out even more fuDy in the plain, unadorned notes kept by an... | |
| James Dunning Baker Gribble - Deccan (India) - 1896 - 452 pages
...prefered to his love. The numbers of the 17 258 HISTORY OF THE DECCAN. dying caused obstructions -in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of production." During this time Futteh Khan had been in confinement, but through an intrigue by means... | |
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