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  • Nabob of Oude near a place called Chunar, and possessing an entire and absolute command over the said prince, he did, contrary to justice and equity and the security of property, as well as to public faith and the sanction of the Company's guaranty, under the color of a treaty, which treaty was conducted secretly, without a written document of any part of the proceeding except the pretended treaty itself, authorize the said

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • Vizier at a place called Chunar, on the borders of Benares; and that the aforesaid vote of suspending a final resolution on the transactions with

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • Their homes ranged from Howrah of the railway people to abandoned cantonments like Monghyr and Chunar; lost tea-gardens Shillong-way; villages where their fathers were large landholders in Oudh or the Deccan; Mission-stations a week from the nearest railway line; seaports a thousand miles south, facing the brazen

    Kim 2003

  • Although the pillar bears the trademark Mauryan polish, it is made not of the Chunar sandstone characteristic of Ashokan sculpture, but of local sandstone.

    Does Newly Excavated Buddhist Temple Provide A Missing Link? 2001

  • In an interview, therefore, with Asoff-ul-Dowla, in the fortress of Chunar, Hastings consented that some of the company's troops should remain in Oude for his defence against his enemies; but only on this condition, that he should rob his mother and grandmother.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Leaving the ghâts and devotees behind him, however, and floating down the stream in his capacious three-roomed budgerow, he passed Mirzapoor, Chunar, and even the holy city of Benares,

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • Early in that month sixty worn-out European pensioners were brought to Allahabad from Chunar, with whose assistance, and that of a few hastily raised Volunteers,

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • His friend Trimbukji Dainglia, however, when captured, was condemned to close confinement in the fortress of Chunar.

    A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

  • Indeed, young Cazalet, whose father was a pensioner at Chunar, hinted very broadly that Colonel

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Monghyr and Chunar; lost tea-gardens Shillong-way; villages where their fathers were large landholders in Oudh or the Deccan; Mission-stations

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

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