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  • A tribe of Klings (the Malay corruption of the word Telinga), sailing from the Coromandel coast, were the first immigrants under British rule.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

  • Although no longer the great mart of eastern commodities, Achin still carries on a considerable trade, as well with private European merchants as with the natives of that part of the coast of India called Telinga, which is properly the country lying between the Kistna and Godavery rivers; but the name, corrupted by the Malays to Kling, is commonly applied to the whole coast of Coromandel.

    The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

  • Telinga, Karnata, Chinese, the language of the Sieks and of the

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • To these I have resolved to add grammars of the Telinga, Kurnata, Orissa, Punjabi, Kashmeeri,

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • Kashmeerian or of the Burman MSS. were lost -- copy for about thirty pages of my Bengali dictionary, the whole copy of a Telinga grammar, part of the copy of the grammar of Punjabi or Sikh language, and all the materials which I had been long collecting for a dictionary of all the languages derived from the Sanskrit.

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • The Sikh, Mahratta, Hindostani, Orissa, Telinga, Assam, and Kurnata are re-translating in rough by pundits who have been long accustomed to their work, and have gone over the ground before.

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • We stand in need of three more founts; one in the Burman, another in the Telinga and Kernata, and a third in the Seek's character.

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • I should here mention, that all the Telinga regiments, fourteen in number, are allowed tents and hackeries to carry them.

    A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

  • The "Akbery" is one of the Telinga corps of infantry, and was intended to be, in all things, like those of Captains Barlow, Bunbury, and Magness; but

    A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

  • Some fifty or sixty of these hackeries were formerly allowed for each Telinga corps with guns, now only twenty-two are allowed; and when they move they must, like Nujeeb corps, seize what more they require.

    A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

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