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The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.

The doubtful condition of Lucknow, Benares, and Agra comes in the rear of all this to strike a frost into the heart, or would do so, again I say, if any other nation were concerned.

Indian merchants of our period, especially those familiar with the Bengalese towns of Trichinopoly, Patna, Murshidabad and Benares.

BEIC had developed poppy seeds that brought the finest quality opium from the poppy fields of Benares and Bihar in the Ganges Basin in India, a country they fully controlled this fetched top price, while the lower grades of opium from other areas of India were sold for less.

The Koonths of Benares, Phunkeahs, Natehmurrahs, and Buahoas of Moradabad, and also such gipsy tribes as the Sainsees, Kunjars and Hubbossahs, in the neighbourhood of Meerut, do not despise it.

Benares temple represents Surya drawn by a horse with twelve heads, 587-u.

Benares, and we know that any attempt to get him on the vidphone will be tapped, even if we manage to break through the security system.

Yet something not very dissimilar in character to it was formerly the boast of the ancient city of Benares, on the banks of the Ganges.

English army, who was about to rejoin his brigade at Benares, made up the party, and, with Mr.

The railway, on leaving Benares, passed for a while along the valley of the Ganges.

Dingy rather generously, two photograph frames, a calendar, and a tray of Benares brassware.

As you can see, Jones is the one with the cholera, and Benares has the flu.

Then he remembered a conversation they had had in Benares many months before.

Preserved by three Brahmins, the inviolate deity, bearing the Yellow Diamond in its forehead, was removed by night, and was transported to the second of the sacred cities of India—the city of Benares.

My village was being builded for the third time, as I remember, when my cousin, the Gavial, brought me word of rich waters above Benares.