Historical and Descriptive Sketch of His Highness the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1Printed at the Times of India Steam Press, 1883 - Hyderabad (India : State) |
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Page 201 - Company and the nabob of the Carnatic (who was a party to the treaty) were to be always ready to send two battalions of sepoys, and six pieces of artillery manned by Europeans, whenever the Nizam should require them, and the situation of affairs would allow of such assistance being rendered, the Nizam paying the expense during the time such force should be employed in this service. In 1782, Bazalut Jung died; but the Company did not obtain possession of the clrcar held bv him till 1788.
Page 395 - In this kingdom also are made the best and most delicate buckrams, and those of highest price ; in sooth they look like tissue of spider's web ! There is no King nor Queen in the world but might be glad to wear them.
Page 402 - It is then polished and stained as described above. The various articles made from it are vases, wash-hand basins, and ewers, hookahbottoms, spittoons, cups and dishes, small boxes and weights. These are inlaid commonly with silver, but sometimes with gold. The patterns are usually as much to be admired as the forms of the vessels. Though usually called Bidri, sometimes Vidry, it is also manufactured at other places.
Page 307 - Tapti to Devagarh is called Abhira, or the region of cowherds. When the Kattis arrived in Gujarat, in the eighth century, they found the greater part of the country in the occupation of the Ahirs.
Page 402 - Hamilton saw of zinc 12,360 grains, copper 460 grains, and lead 414 grains, melted together, and a mixture of resin and bees-wax introduced into the crucible to prevent calcination. It was then poured into a mould made of baked clay, and the article handed over to be turned in a lathe. Artists then inlay flowers or other ornaments of silver or of gold. They first...
Page 201 - That letter was subsequently declared, by a resolution of the House of Commons, to have the full force of a treaty executed in due form. In it the Governor-General agreed that the force stipulated for in the Sixth Article of the treaty of 1768 should be granted whenever applied for, provided it was not to be employed against any power in alliance with the Company.
Page 296 - ... rights, though they may yield him no profit, but happen on the contrary to be a tax upon his purse. If the regulated place be not assigned to his bullocks when they walk in procession at the Pola feast, or if he has been wrongfully preceded by another party in offering...
Page 297 - ... profit, but happen, on the contrary, to be a tax upon his purse. If the regulated place be not assigned to his bullocks, when they walk in procession at the Pola feast, or if he has been wrongfully preceded by another party in offering libations to the pile of fuel that is to be fired at the Holi, the Kunbi at once imagines that a cruel wrong has been done him, and his peace of mind is disturbed. He will haunt the courts of the taluk and district officials for redress, and neglecting his fields,...
Page 299 - ... of the Kunbi cultivator. The women work as hard as the men, and fortunate is the cultivator who is blessed with a number of female relatives in his family, for, instead of being a burden, their industry is a steady source of income to him. With a heavy load on her head, an infant wrapped up and slung to her back, the Kunbi woman of the poorer classes will sturdily tramp some six or seven miles to market, sell the produce of her field there, and from the proceeds buy articles for household consumption;...
Page 184 - R«gent and Minister of the Haidarabad State. By this unhappy event the British Government has lost an experienced and enlightened friend ; His Highness the Nizam a wise and faithful servant ; and the Indian community one of its most distinguished representatives.