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Page xi
... mention in the Bombay Records of his first appearance in India . Whether he entered the Bombay military service in the ranks , or whether he held a commis- sion as ensign on his arrival at Bombay , must be left to conjecture ...
... mention in the Bombay Records of his first appearance in India . Whether he entered the Bombay military service in the ranks , or whether he held a commis- sion as ensign on his arrival at Bombay , must be left to conjecture ...
Page xxv
... mention , nor indeed does he use some of what one would suppose to be among the oldest place - names current in Bombay , such as Paidhownie and Umarkhadi . Yet those are precisely of the class of place- names in which he would have been ...
... mention , nor indeed does he use some of what one would suppose to be among the oldest place - names current in Bombay , such as Paidhownie and Umarkhadi . Yet those are precisely of the class of place- names in which he would have been ...
Page 158
... mention of Courtney is to be found in the Bengal Consultations before 1724 : but the Court Minutes , the Miscellanies , and the Fort St George Diary and Consultations , yielded much interesting matter . On 3 November 1708 , a proposal ...
... mention of Courtney is to be found in the Bengal Consultations before 1724 : but the Court Minutes , the Miscellanies , and the Fort St George Diary and Consultations , yielded much interesting matter . On 3 November 1708 , a proposal ...
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