Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: AhmedabadPrinted at the Government Central Press, 1879 - Bombay (India : State) |
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able to hold acres Ahmedabad district Arch average Baroda Bhadar Bhavnagar Bhils Bombay Bráhmans building built Cambay caste dinners cent century Chapter XIV charges chief chiefly city of Ahmedabad classes cloth Collector cost cotton crop cultivators Daskroi Dhandhuka Dheds Dholera Dholka district east exports feet funds Gáikwár gate Girásiás Gogha Government villages grain guild Gujarát Gulf of Cambay Harsol Hindu houses India Jamalpur Kaira Kanbis Kasbátis Káthiáwár Khán Kolis labourers lodge Mahmud Begada Manufactures Maráthás merchants miles millet minarets miscellaneous Modása mosque municipal Musalmán officers Páli Parántij Pársis Pátri Peshwa Piram Places of Interest population port pounds railway Rajputs Ránpur Rás Mála rates repair rice river road rupee Sábarmati salt Sánand Sarkhej season Sháhápur Shrávaks silk soil souls square miles station stone sub-division survey Tálukdárs temple tomb tons total number town trade Vánia Vániás Viramgám walls yearly
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Page 19 - Flight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Page 281 - Each part goes on increasing in dignity as we approach the sanctuary. The exterior expresses the interior more completely than even a Gothic design ; and whether looked at from its courts or from the outside, it possesses variety without confusion, and an appropriateness of every part to the purpose for which it was intended.
Page 41 - Hakk" (I am God). He commanded his disciples that when he used these words they were to say, "Thou art, thou art!
Page 337 - ... Gabuyene we sailed north-eastward in the direction of Murua, anchoring on the first night after leaving Gabuyene off the Bonvouloir reefs. These are not as figured on the chart. A portion of the system, perhaps that alluded to in ' Sailing Directions,' consists of an oval atoll, which appears to be about a mile and a half long by three-quarters of a mile broad. On the windward side of the atoll are three low densely wooded islands, oblong in shape, one of which is Panamoti. There are a few small...
Page 271 - On the marble slab above the centre of the three kiblas, or prayerniches, are these words in Arabic: "This high and far-stretching mosque was raised by the slave who trusts in the mercy of God, the compassionate, the alone-to-be-worshipped." The Koran says: "Truly mosques belong to God, worship no one else with him.
Page 87 - Before the beginning of the 16th century the silks brocades (kincobs) and dyed cotton cloths of Ahmedabad which generally bear the name of Cambay, the port of their shipment, were in demand in every eastern market from Cairo to Pekin. The wild tribesman of the Malayan Archipelago did not consider his freedom earned until he had stored up a pile of them equal in weight to himself. On the coast of Africa these were exchanged for four times their weight in gold.
Page 219 - Panjab, and gradually came to Lahore. It destroyed the lives of many Muhammadans and Hindus. It spread through Sirhind and the Doab to Delhi and its dependent districts, and reduced them and the villages to a miserable condition. Now it has wholly subsided. It is said by old men, and it is also clear from the histories of former times, that this disease had never appeared before in this country. I asked the physicians and learned men what was the cause of it, as for two years in succession the country...
Page 107 - to any single artisan-guild in the country," and I am inclined to think he was right. Another slight error in Mr. Lely's account is found in his statement that in Ahmedabad " there are four castes of carpenters and therefore four assemblies for caste purposes, but only one carpenters' Mahajan." The chief of the carpenters told me personally that he was Patel of a Panch, not of a Mahajan, and that the castes were not true castes, for they intermarry. On the other hand, the same caste may have subdivided...
Page 274 - I is a well-preserved record of the reign of Kai Kaiis, dated in AH 697. It describes the building of a mosque by a noble named Zafar Khan Bahra1n Aitigin ; but there is no trace of such a building now remaining. The following translation is by Blochmann2 : — "This mosque was built during the reign of the king of kings 1 Buchanan's Eastern India, Vol. II, p. 661. Bengal Asiatic Society's Journal, Vol. XLI, p. .103.
Page 295 - ... of houses. It has a defined area of jurisdiction spread over continuous houses binding the families in them under certain rules and regulations and creating a sense of belongingness among its inhabitants. If the rules were slighted, the offender used to be fined and in former times, till he paid up, he was not allowed to light a lamp in his house or to give a feast. Locally, this punishment was called Devo- Devata- Bandh.