Extracts From The Gazetteer Province Of Oudh

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Download or read book Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh, Vol. 1 The latest annexed of the kingdoms of India forms the centre of that vast plain which has been for centuries the peculiar site of Hindu civilization, and is distinguished by tho name of Hindustan proper from those other parts of the Indian continent where the colonization of the old Aryan conquerors has been less complete, and their religious and social system has loss thoroughly eradicated or absorbed into itself the beliefs and languages of the aboriginal inhabitants. Stretching from the Ganges to the hills, and about equidistant from Delhi on the one side and the extreme east of Behar on the other, it divides this region into two nearly even parts; and as the scene of the great national epic, the two greatest of the reforming movements which have agitated the national religion, and the earliest as well as the last of those Muhammadan governments, in its resistance to which the national spirit was most severely tried and gave the most convincing proofs of its wonderful vitality, it is second to no part of the continent in its command over the sympathies of the native, and the interest and difficulty of the problems which it presents to its European administrator or historian. Nowhere arc the traditions of the past more ancient and more vividly felt, and nowhere is the civilization-rooted in a soil of unsurpassed fertility and grown up in a population of exceptional density-more fully developed and more homogeneous than in this the last case whore Western statesmanship has been brought face to face with the requirements of an Eastern people. With a total area of 23,930 square miles, Oudh lies between the extreme latitudes of 25 34' and 29 6' north, and longitudes of 79 45' and 83 11' east. Only where the Ganges marks its southwestern frontier is one whole side separated by a natural boundary from neighbouring governments. Naipal marches with it all along the north, with a froutier for the first sixty miles to the east, running along the foot of the lowest rango of tho Himalayas, and from that point advanced for some distance into the sub-Himalayan Tarai. To the east and the west it is enclosed by the oldor-acquired districts of the North-West Provinces - with Jaunpur, Basti, and Azamgarh on one side, and Shahjahanpur, Farukhabad, and Cawnpore on the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."