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Title: The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Capper, John, 1814?-1898
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Publisher: London Ingram, Cooke
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE SUGGAR, OR VILLAGE-CART. districts, does not appear to have called for any extensive roads, norwere bridges in much use; but as time rolled on, as the human raceincreased with tropical fruitfulness in that teeming land, the Avants ofman became multiplied and enlarged, and his industrial powers werecalled forth to satisfy them. Tlie i\Iahomedan conquerors of India were ever alive to the necessi-ties of the country; and we find that even those monarchs who weremost occupied by war were never unmindful of their subjects, but found
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PUBLIC WORKS OF THE TARTARS. 353 time, amidst all their conquests, for works of public utility. Of FerozeShah we read, that amoug other undertakings for promoting the pro-sperity and happiness of his people, he constructed 50 dams acrossrivers, 30 Ieservoirs for purposes of irrigation, 40 mosques, 30 colleges,100 caravanserais for travellers, 100 public baths, and 150 bridges.Besides which, he formed a canal of considerable magnitude—thelargest, indeed, at that time in existence — stretching from the ChetangNala, a tributary of the Sub-Himalayas, froxai which it derived its sup-ply, into the country west of the Jumna. To the enterprise of the emperor Akbar, India is indebted for aseries of canal-works of greater extent and utility than any previouslyin existence; he appears to have placed these public works under re-gularly appointed superintendents called Chiefs of the Waters, inwhose hands were the regulation of the supply, the levying of the rateson the districts irrigated, the

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