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" Meerut; but she has a house in this place where she frequently passes a considerable time together. She is a very little, queer-looking old woman, with brilliant, but wicked eyes, and the remains of beauty in her features. "
Missionary Register... - Page 397
1828
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 2

Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1828 - 610 pages
...own Jaghire at Sirdhana, about twelve coss from Meerut ; but she has a house in this place where she frequently passes a considerable time together. She...her much respect, on account both of her supposed wisdom and her courage; she having, during the Maharatta wars, led, after her husband's death, his...
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 1

Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1828 - 532 pages
...own jaghire at Sirdhana, about twelve coss from Meerut; but she has a house in this place where she frequently passes a considerable time together. She...people, and the generality of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood,pay her much respect on account both of her supposed wisdom and her courage ; she having,...
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The Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review, and Register, Part 76, Volume 8

British - 1828 - 668 pages
...own Jaghire in Sirdhana, above twelve coss from Meerut ; but she has a house in this place where she frequently passes a considerable time together. She...queer-looking old woman, with brilliant, but wicked eyes, an 1 the remains of beauty in ber features. She ia possessed of considerable talent and readiness ia...
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The Hindoos, Volume 2

Geography - 1835 - 430 pages
...Meerut. Her residence is in the centre of her own jaghir at Sirdhana, about twelve coss from Meerut. She is a very little, queer-looking old woman, with...talent and readiness in conversation, but only speaks Hindoostani. Her soldiers and people, and the generality of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood,...
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The Hindoos, Volume 2

Hindus - 1835 - 434 pages
...Meerut. Her residence is in the centre of her own jaghir at Sirdliana, about twelve coss from Meerut. She is a very little, queer-looking old woman, with...talent and readiness in conversation, but only speaks Hindoostani. Her soldiers and people, and the generality of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood,...
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Byepaths of Biography

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Biography - 1863 - 314 pages
...jaghire at Sirdhanah, about twelve coss from Meerut ; but she has a house in this place, where sh e frequently passes a considerable time together. She...talent and readiness in conversation, but only speaks Hindostanee. Her soldiers and people, and the generality of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood,...
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from ..., Volume 1

Reginald Heber - India - 1873 - 330 pages
...she has a house in this place where she frequently passes a considerable time together. She is a ery little, queer-looking old woman, with brilliant but...her much respect, on account both of her supposed wisdom and her courage ; she having, during the Maharatta wars, led, after her husband's death, his...
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A Short Account of the Lives of the Bishops of Calcutta, Gathered from Their ...

William Crawford Bromehead - Bishops - 1876 - 254 pages
...was introduced to the Begum Snmroo of Sirdhana. He describes her as " a very little, queer-looking woman, with brilliant but wicked eyes, and the remains of beauty in her features, of considerable talent and readiness in conversation, but only speaking Hindustani." He heard sad reports...
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India and Her Neighbours

William Patrick Andrew - Eastern question (Central Asia) - 1878 - 488 pages
...immense force of character.* Bishop Heber in his delightful journal mentions the Begum Sumroo as " a little queer-looking old woman, with brilliant but...eyes, and the remains of beauty in her features." He says she was generally respected both by her soldiers and the people of the country, and possessed...
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India and Her Neighbours, Part 6

Sir William Patrick Andrew - Eastern question (Central Asia) - 1878 - 442 pages
...immense force of character.* Bishop Heber in his delightful journal mentions the Begum Sumroo as " a little queer-looking old woman, with brilliant but wicked eyes, and the remains of beauty hi her features." He says she was generally respected both by her soldiers and the people of the country,...
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