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Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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dia, or havebeen produced on the soil, are represented. Here is a semi-mili-tary Arab, with a perfect arsenal of weapons in his kamarband,or waistband. An Arab chief in his palki, or palankeen, is es-corted by a surging and tumultuous crowd of his retainers, firingoff muskets and shouting out the wonderful titles of their augustmaster as they pass along. Next comes the Seedee, with hisbroad, black negro face, who is more fearful to behold than anArab villain. The Rohilla, with slow and dignified step, maynext be seen ; his huge bell-mouthed blunderbuss, without whichin Haidarabad he is never seen, is as distinguishable as himself.The Pathan, the Afghan, the Persian, the Bokhariat, the Geor-gian, the Parsi, the Dekhanese, the Sikh, and the Turk, withmany others, may be seen passing along, and making way forour magisterial elephants. We now reach the Char Minar (FourMinarets). It is the heart of Haidarabad. Four streets divergefrom it. Each of the four minarets is one hundred and eighty
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«M A!N HI.K1M1ANT BIDE. QOLCONDA.—AN ELEPHANT III hi: feet high. Above the arches are a oouple of rooms, used a*madrasa and masjid (school and church). No one is allowed t<»ascend either of the minarets, for they look down on the Nizamspalace. The Char Minar was erected l.d. L591, by MohammedKuli Kutub Shah. lie built it in honor of Gods favorable an-swer to the prayers of some holy men in a day of a fierce pesti-lential scourge. In 1756 Bussy and his troops occupied it andthe gardens around. It is the scandal point * of t he idle loers of Ilaidarabad. Writers of petitions and Letters are Bquattedaround on the steps, plying their trade, jusl as one used to Bee ingreat abundance in the Neapolitan market-places. Near by isthe Mecca Masjid. This mosque is a quadrangle of three hun-dred and sixty feet square. Its roof is supported by fifteenarches. During the festivals from eight to ten thousand •shippers meet under the two huge domes. Abdula Kutub Shahbegan it, and Aurangzeb, th

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