History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus Lambert
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Edward Rodolphus Lambert
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Herbert Hope Risley
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Aurel Stein
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Aurel Stein
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Tod
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 694
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Burgess
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 468
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 454
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vincent Arthur Smith
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 562
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAkbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605 is a biography of Akbar I (reigned, 1556-1605), the third and greatest of the Mughal emperors of India. The author, Vincent Arthur Smith, was an Irish-born historian and antiquary who served in the Indian Civil Service before turning to full-time research and scholarship. After assuming the throne while still a youth, Akbar succeeded in consolidating and enlarging the Mughal Empire. He instituted reforms of the tax structure, the organization and control of the military, and the religious establishment and its relationship to the state. He was also a patron of culture and the arts, and he had a keen interest in religion and the possible sources of religious knowledge. The book traces Akbar's ancestry and early years; his accession to the throne and his regency under Bayram Khan; his many conquests, including Bihar, the Afghan kingdom of Bengal, Malwa, Gujarat, Kashmir, Sind, parts of Orissa, and parts of the Deccan Plateau; and his annexation of other territories through diplomacy, including Baluchistan and Kandahar. The book devotes considerable attention to Akbar's religious beliefs and interests. On several occasions Akbar requested that the Portuguese authorities in Goa send priests to his court to teach him about Christianity, and the book recounts the stories of the three Jesuit missions organized in response to these requests. By origin a Sunni Muslim, Akbar also sought to learn from Shiʻite scholars, Sufi mystics, and Hindus, Jains, and Parsis. The last four chapters of the book are not chronological but deal with the Akbar's personal characteristics, civil and military institutions in the empire, the social and economic conditions of the people, and literature and art. The book contains a detailed chronology of the life and reign of Akbar and an annotated bibliography. Also included are maps and illustrations. Maps of India in 1561 and India in 1605 show the extent of Akbar's conquests, and sketch maps illustrate his main military campaigns.
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
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Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9789354991028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe general proposition that the social organization of the Indo-Aryans was based on the theory of Chaturvarnya and that Chaturvarnya means division of society into four classes-Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (soldiers), Vaishyas (traders) and Shudras (menials) does not convey any idea of the real nature of the problem of the Shudras nor of its magnitude. Chaturvarnya would have been a very innocent principle if it meant no more than mere division of society into four classes. Unfortunately, more than this is involved in the theory of Chaturvarnya. Besides dividing society into four orders, the theory goes further and makes the principle of graded inequality. Under the system of Chaturvarnya, the Shudra is not only placed at the bottom of the gradation but he is subjected to innumerable ignominies and disabilities so as to prevent him from rising above the condition fixed for him by law. Indeed until the fifth Varna of the Untouchables came into being, the Shudras were in the eyes of the Hindus the lowest of the low. This shows the nature of what might be called the problem of the Shudras. If people have no idea of the magnitude of the problem it is because they have not cared to know what the population of the Shudras is.