Sir A. Sashiah Sastri, K. C. S. I.: An Indian Statesman; a Biographical SketchSrinivasa, Varadachari, 1902 - 408 pages |
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... Coleroon by means of a gigantic masonry dam so as to arrest the drying up of the Kāveri which became imminent year after year . The successful result of the Upper and the Lower Anicuts of the Coleroon emboldened that great Engineer ...
... Coleroon by means of a gigantic masonry dam so as to arrest the drying up of the Kāveri which became imminent year after year . The successful result of the Upper and the Lower Anicuts of the Coleroon emboldened that great Engineer ...
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... Coleroon Anicut having been designed mainly to secure the plentiful irrigation of Tanjore , the share of Trichinopoly in the benefit is comparatively small . But it is believed , not without good grounds for the belief , that there is ...
... Coleroon Anicut having been designed mainly to secure the plentiful irrigation of Tanjore , the share of Trichinopoly in the benefit is comparatively small . But it is believed , not without good grounds for the belief , that there is ...
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Page 12 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 223 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire...
Page 106 - Providence, internal tranquillity shall be restored, it is our earnest desire to stimulate the peaceful industry of India, to promote works of public utility and improvement, and to administer its government for the benefit of all our subjects resident therein. In their prosperity will be our strength ; in their contentment our security ; and in their gratitude our best reward.
Page 105 - We declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that none be in any wise favoured, none molested or disquieted by reason of their religious faith or observances, but that all shall alike enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the law...
Page 265 - Court was taken away and it was enacted that no person whatever should by reason of place of birth or by reason of descent, be, in any civil proceeding whatever, excepted from the jurisdiction...
Page 152 - The whole surface is undulating, and presents a series of hills and valleys, traversed from east to west by many rivers, the floods of which, arrested by the peculiar action of the Arabian Sea on the coast, spread themselves out into numerous lakes or lagoons, connected here and there by artificial canals, and forming an inland line of smooth water communication which extends nearly the whole length of the coast, and is of the utmost value when the sea itself is closed for navigation during the monsoon.
Page 304 - ... without any further ado. If it is more, woe be to the estimators. The result in the latter case is often that the difference is made away with, and shared half and half between the ryot and officers concerned.
Page 305 - Officials, to vindicate its robbed rights, come down heavily on both, and often both are ruined. If the misappropriation is made in very small quantities, the way of replacement is very ingenious, a quantity of chaff or a quantity of loose earth, or a quantity of big grained sand is put in to make up the measure. (g) Time passes and the months denoting favourable markets come round. There now remains the business of disposing of the Cirkar grain from the granaries.
Page 100 - Sastre, the teachers in these schools, will be known hereafter as those who have planted the germs of an improved learning in this interesting and important part of the Madras Presidency. ' Masulipatam bids fair to become to the Northern Circars more than Oxford and Cambridge have been to the United Kingdom.
Page 303 - Cirkar village officers, and the village headmen (called Mirasidars here) to go round the fields, and note down estimates of the crop. That there is considerable wooing and feeing at this stage goes for the saying. As in other matters, so in this, the race is to the rich and woe to the poor. " (d.) As soon as the village officers have done, and reported the first estimate, down come special estimators from the Taluq Cutcheries to check the first estimate.