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. Every day sufficient soup and bread was prepared to satisfy the wants of the hungry. It was further ordered... Indian Journal of Economics - Page 1671919Full view - About this book
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...Every day sufficient soup and bread was prepared to satisfy the wants of the hungry. It was farther ordered that so long as His Majesty remained at Burhanpur...Mondays one lac of rupees was given away in charity. Ahmaddbad had suffered more severely than any other place, and so His Majesty ordered the officials... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 598 pages
...Every day sufficient soup and bread was prepared to satisfy the wants of the hungry. It was farther ordered that so long as His Majesty remained at Burhanpur...others as the day of the Emperor's accession to the throue. Thus, on twenty Mondays one lac of rupees was given away in charity. Ahmadabad had suffered... | |
| Charles W. McMinn - Famines - 1902 - 148 pages
...benefit of the poor. It was further ordered that so long as His Majesty remained at Burhanpur Rs. 5,000 should be distributed among the deserving poor every...Mondays one lac of rupees was given away in charity. His Majesty ordered the officials to distribute Rs. 50,000 among the famine stricken of Ahmedabad."... | |
| Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1907 - 442 pages
...the hungry. It was further ordered that so long as his Majesty remained at Burhanpur, five thousand rupees should be distributed among the deserving poor...distinguished above all others as the day of the emperor's A STREET SCENE IN AHMADABAD. accession to the throne; and on twenty Mondays one hundred thousand rupees... | |
| Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 644 pages
...and villages of other countries. Those lands which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness — The Emperor...lac of rupees was given away in charity. Ahmadabad had suffered more severely than any other place, and so His Majesty ordered the officials to distribute... | |
| Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 608 pages
...further ordered that so long as His Majesty remained at Burhanpur 5000 rupees should be distribyted among the deserving poor every Monday, that day being...lac of rupees was given away in charity. Ahmadabad had suffered more severely than any other place, and so His Majesty ordered the officials to distribute... | |
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