. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . BETWEEN AD, 1:; THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 59 also, on the 21st of the following September, the phantom kinoj, intercepted in his uselessflight from the retribution he had provoked, was brought back to the palace he hadoccupied as ruler of India, a wretched prisoner, divested of rank and title to awaitthe result of a trial that


. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . BETWEEN AD, 1:; THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 59 also, on the 21st of the following September, the phantom kinoj, intercepted in his uselessflight from the retribution he had provoked, was brought back to the palace he hadoccupied as ruler of India, a wretched prisoner, divested of rank and title to awaitthe result of a trial that, in all probability, would consign him, in the extreme winter ofhis existence, to the doom of a traitor and a felon. It is not in the province of thisdescriptive work to trace the progress, or to record the triumphs, of the struo-f^leunnaturally forced upon this country by the treachery and vindictiveness of the people ofIndia; and as the subject is fully treated in works devoted to the purpose, to those pao-eswe must refer for details that are now of national importance and of world-wide interest. THE COOTUB MINAR—DELHL The village of Cootub—in which the remarkable column represented in the accompanyingengraving, rises in towering majesty ove


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