India (1880)
Book Details
Author(s)Fanny Roper Feudge
ISBN / ASINB00927H44C
ISBN-13978B00927H444
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Description
INDIA, Hindustan, and British India, are names often indiscriminately applied as belonging to the same region. Properly, the first and second include the third; India and Hindustan being applied to the entire Peninsula, comprising within its bounds, British India or all that portion under British control, and in addition, many native Principalities, some of which are entirely independent, and others partially tributar}'- to the British Provincial Government.
India lies between Thibet and Little Thibet the north, the Anglo-Burmese Provmces of Assam and Aracan and the Bay of Bengal on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the sea of Arabia, Beeloochistan and Affghanistan on the west. It extends over the immense region lying between Cape Comorin in 8° of north latitude and the Himalayan mountains in 35° of north latitude, and from the Delta of the Brahmaputra on the east, to that of the Indus on the west. Its extreme length is about eighteen hundred miles, and its greatest breadth, along the parallel of 25°, is a little more than fifteen hundred miles; comprising a total area of not less than fifteen hundred thousand square miles.
The population of India is reckoned at one hundred and forty-one millions, of whom, about one million are Portuguese and their descendants ; one hundred thousand are Anglo-Saxons; and the remainder are Monguls, Tartars, Moors, Arabs, Parsees, Burmese, Aracanese, Assamese, Peguans, Chinese, Jews and Gypsies; besides the various Indian races, viz.: Hindus, Bengalees, Rajputs, Mahrattas, Seikhs, Ameers, Bheels, Afghans, Gen-toos, Goorkas, Klings, Bhootians, Lopchas, Todars, Gounds, Khounds, Badagas, and Erulars. This great Peninsula is intersected by ranges of lofty mountains, among which are the Himalayas in the northern section ; the Vindhyas, Dounghers, Aravalis, Kairmoor, and Rajmahal, in the central; and the several ranges of Ghauts in the southern portion; thus diversifying the whole country with alternating mountains and valleys, extensive tablelands, deltas, and fertile plains, that include within their several bounds a very great diversity of climate, soil and productions.
India lies between Thibet and Little Thibet the north, the Anglo-Burmese Provmces of Assam and Aracan and the Bay of Bengal on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the sea of Arabia, Beeloochistan and Affghanistan on the west. It extends over the immense region lying between Cape Comorin in 8° of north latitude and the Himalayan mountains in 35° of north latitude, and from the Delta of the Brahmaputra on the east, to that of the Indus on the west. Its extreme length is about eighteen hundred miles, and its greatest breadth, along the parallel of 25°, is a little more than fifteen hundred miles; comprising a total area of not less than fifteen hundred thousand square miles.
The population of India is reckoned at one hundred and forty-one millions, of whom, about one million are Portuguese and their descendants ; one hundred thousand are Anglo-Saxons; and the remainder are Monguls, Tartars, Moors, Arabs, Parsees, Burmese, Aracanese, Assamese, Peguans, Chinese, Jews and Gypsies; besides the various Indian races, viz.: Hindus, Bengalees, Rajputs, Mahrattas, Seikhs, Ameers, Bheels, Afghans, Gen-toos, Goorkas, Klings, Bhootians, Lopchas, Todars, Gounds, Khounds, Badagas, and Erulars. This great Peninsula is intersected by ranges of lofty mountains, among which are the Himalayas in the northern section ; the Vindhyas, Dounghers, Aravalis, Kairmoor, and Rajmahal, in the central; and the several ranges of Ghauts in the southern portion; thus diversifying the whole country with alternating mountains and valleys, extensive tablelands, deltas, and fertile plains, that include within their several bounds a very great diversity of climate, soil and productions.
