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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

Sir W. H. Sleeman · Public domain text

259,540 words · about 18 h 11 min to read

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About this book

Author
Sleeman, W. H., Sir (1788–1856)
Language
English
Subjects
Oudh (India) › Description and travel
Length
259,540 words · about 18 h 11 min
Sections
28 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (28)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. Preface about 1 min
  3. Introduction under 1 min
  4. Chapter I under 1 min
  5. Chapter II under 1 min
  6. Chapter III under 1 min
  7. Chapter IV about 1 min
  8. Chapter V about 1 min
  9. Chapter VI about 7 min
  10. Introduction about 1 h 21 min
  11. Chapter I about 1 h
  12. Chapter II about 1 h 35 min
  13. Chapter III about 1 h 8 min
  14. Chapter IV about 1 h 5 min
  15. Chapter V about 1 h 13 min
  16. Chapter VI about 1 h 20 min
  17. Chapter 1 about 1 min
  18. Chapter II about 1 min
  19. Chapter III about 1 min
  20. Chapter IV about 1 min
  21. Chapter V about 1 min
  22. Chapter VI about 1 min
  23. Chapter I about 1 h 2 min
  24. Chapter II about 55 min
  25. Chapter III about 1 h 21 min
  26. Chapter IV about 1 h 23 min
  27. Chapter V about 1 h 40 min
  28. Chapter VI about 2 h 55 min

The opening of Chapter IV

Recross the Goomtee river--Sultanpoor Cantonments--Number of persons begging redress of wrongs, and difficulty of obtaining it in Oude-- Apathy of the Sovereign--Incompetence and unfitness of his Officers-- Sultanpoor, healthy and well suited for Troops--Chandour, twelve miles distant, no less so--lands of their weaker neighbours absorbed by the family of Rajah Dursun Sing, by fraud, violence, and collusion; but greatly improved--Difficulty attending attempt to restore old Proprietors--Same absorptions have been going on in all parts of Oude--and the same difficulty to be everywhere encountered-- Soils in the district, mutteear, doomutteea, bhoor, oosur-- Risk at which lands are tilled under Landlords opposed to their Government--Climate of Oude more invigorating than that of Malwa-- Captain Magness's Regiment--Repair of artillery guns--Supply of grain to its bullocks--Civil establishment of the Nazim--Wolves--Dread of killing them among Hindoos--Children preserved by them in their dens, and nurtured.

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