 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 540 pages
...fome traces of the Hull ? I have never yet heard any account of the origin of the Englijli cuftom ; but it is unqueftionably very ancient, and is ftill...the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the Ipwer clafles of people; but in India high and lowjoin in it; and the late Shujaul Daulahy lam told,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country : with us it is chiefly confined to the lower classes of people ; but in India high and low join in it ; and the late Shuja ul Daulah, 1 am told,... | |
 | Peter Roberts - Folklore - 1815 - 398 pages
...custom; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, " though less in them than in the country: " with us it is chiefly confined to the " lower class of people, but in India high " and low join in it, and the late Surajah " Dowlah, I am told,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people; but in India high and low join in it; and the late Suruja Doulah, I am told, was very... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 854 pages
...custom; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us, it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people: but in India, high and low join in it; and the late Suraja Doulah, I am told, was... | |
 | Identity - 1829 - 146 pages
...custom, but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up, even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower classes of people, but in India high and low join in it; and the late Sujaul Daulah, I am told, was... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 360 pages
...custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in India high and low join in it; and the late Sourajah Doulah, I am told, was... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1849 - 366 pages
...custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in India high and low join in it; and the late Sourajah Doulah, I am told, was... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in India high and low join in it ; and the late Sourajah Doulah, I am told, was... | |
 | Folklore - 1888 - 916 pages
...custom; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept np even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower classes of people; but in India, high and low join in it; and the late Shujdul Daulah.tI am told was... | |
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