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This quiet assimilation of Williams's material into Medwin's oriental poetry is later half-acknowledged, when the "Sketches in Hindoostan" are reworked into Medwin's "biographical" travel memoir, The Angler in Wales (1834).
Introduction 2002
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At present the imperial dignity of Hindoostan is vested in Shah Aulum
Sporting Sketches 2002
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: er and confusion prevail'd in Hindoostan and the people suffer'd great cala:
Sporting Sketches 2002
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This extensive monarchy of the Mogul is called, in the Persian language, by the Mahometan inhabitants, Indostan or Hindoostan, meaning the land of the Hindoos, and is divided into _thirty-seven_ distinct and large provinces, which were anciently separate kingdoms.
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Oh, and if you find a page spread for South Asia with labels like "Hindoostan" and "Siam" on it, congratulations, you're holding rare book.
OUPblog 2008
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This contrasts with the statement of Mr Mangles, chairman of the East India Company: "Providence has entrusted the empire of Hindoostan to England in order that the banner of Christ should wave triumphant from one end of India to the other."
Fiancée 2010
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Oswald and Edwin and the "Sketches in Hindoostan."
Introduction 2002
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The history of the successors of Tamerlane, who reign'd over Hindoostan with little interruption more than
Sporting Sketches 2002
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Memoirs of a Map of Hindoostan; or the Mogul Empire.
Notes 2002
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If she had, and believed the Khalsa could beat us and make her Queen of all Hindoostan, she'd have turned 'em loose over the Sutlej by now.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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