Sir A. Sashiah Sastri, K. C. S. I.: An Indian Statesman; a Biographical SketchSrinivasa, Varadachari, 1902 - 408 pages |
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... following extract from a letter he wrote to Sashiah in 1848 while on a sea - voyage to recruit his health : - " I have no doubt of your deriving pleasure from the follow- ing few lines when I reflect upon the long and intimate connexion ...
... following extract from a letter he wrote to Sashiah in 1848 while on a sea - voyage to recruit his health : - " I have no doubt of your deriving pleasure from the follow- ing few lines when I reflect upon the long and intimate connexion ...
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... following extract from a letter by Ramiengar to Sashiah written in 1849 , when Sashiah had IN A ROVING COMMISSION . 35 35.
... following extract from a letter by Ramiengar to Sashiah written in 1849 , when Sashiah had IN A ROVING COMMISSION . 35 35.
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... following extract from a letter by V. Ramiengar from Nellore shows : - 66 ..I was certainly not prepared to see you away from your regular post , and making Jamabundy at Nunde- gamah . The fact shows the estimation in which you are held ...
... following extract from a letter by V. Ramiengar from Nellore shows : - 66 ..I was certainly not prepared to see you away from your regular post , and making Jamabundy at Nunde- gamah . The fact shows the estimation in which you are held ...
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... following extract from a note of V. Shadagopa- charlu : - Mr. Holloway is now here . I was gratified to hear from him such a good account of you that I thought I could with advantage exchange positions with you . I do not recollect all ...
... following extract from a note of V. Shadagopa- charlu : - Mr. Holloway is now here . I was gratified to hear from him such a good account of you that I thought I could with advantage exchange positions with you . I do not recollect all ...
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... following extract from the letter refers to it : - " When Jayaram Chetty died , the Board selected their present Sheristadar , A. Sashiah Sastry , as the fittest and ablest member of the Uncovenanted Service and offered him the post ...
... following extract from the letter refers to it : - " When Jayaram Chetty died , the Board selected their present Sheristadar , A. Sashiah Sastry , as the fittest and ablest member of the Uncovenanted Service and offered him the post ...
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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.