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Title: The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Roberts, Emma, 1794?-1840
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Publisher: London, New York : The London printing and publishing company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Hindoo Temple at Chandngoan. In the route from Agra to Kota. Engraving by W. Le Petit, drawn by Boys from original sketches by Commander Robert Elliott
THE ILLUSTRATED INDIAN EMPIRE. 81 subjected; since all who had dipped their hands in the same dish with him would have lost caste throughout India; and, consequently, if the worst should happen in respect to discovering the imposture, their silence and co-operation were effectually secured. The ascendancy thus gained by the ambitious intriguant at length became irksome to thenobles; but the times were not favourable for resistance to her authority; and the fortunate descendant of the most degraded and despised race among the populations of the East, remained in tranquil possession of the high rank to which he had been elevated by his ambitious patroness, and in due time became the undisturbed rajah of Jeypoor. HINDOO TEMPLE AT CHANDGOAN. The temple represented in the accompanying engraving, is situated in the obscure and otherwise uninteresting village of Chandgoan, in the south-eastern quarter of the Jeypoor territory, and near the direct route from Agra to Kotah, and other places in Central I

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