The Calcutta Review, Volume 8University of Calcutta., 1847 - India |
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... character and office : - " I have addressed the most careful enquiry to the subject of the provision of human victims for the Khond worship by the Dombango or Panwas , by their violent abduction , their theft , and their purchase in the ...
... character and office : - " I have addressed the most careful enquiry to the subject of the provision of human victims for the Khond worship by the Dombango or Panwas , by their violent abduction , their theft , and their purchase in the ...
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... character and the general objects of the Government which must precede the establishment of any beneficial relations with them ; and secondly , both to contradict the impression that the Government regarded the rite of human sacrifice ...
... character and the general objects of the Government which must precede the establishment of any beneficial relations with them ; and secondly , both to contradict the impression that the Government regarded the rite of human sacrifice ...
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... character , and the objects of our power , blindly offered resistance , and suffered the extreme penalties of rebellion . We have heretofore necessarily met the Hill tribes of Orissa every where else in the same character alone , viz ...
... character , and the objects of our power , blindly offered resistance , and suffered the extreme penalties of rebellion . We have heretofore necessarily met the Hill tribes of Orissa every where else in the same character alone , viz ...
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... character of the Khonds is eminently distinguished by the power to resist coercion . " Then , again , as regards the territory occupied by them , Captain Macpherson remarks , that it is connected chiefly with Zemindars , over whom our ...
... character of the Khonds is eminently distinguished by the power to resist coercion . " Then , again , as regards the territory occupied by them , Captain Macpherson remarks , that it is connected chiefly with Zemindars , over whom our ...
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... character . Now , by watching narrowly the workings and conditions of the social system among the Khonds - the spirit of their man- ners and habits of feeling - Captain Macpherson was led to conclude that Justice was the greatest of ...
... character . Now , by watching narrowly the workings and conditions of the social system among the Khonds - the spirit of their man- ners and habits of feeling - Captain Macpherson was led to conclude that Justice was the greatest of ...
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