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The Traveller's Guide to Agra; Containing an Account of the Past History, the Antiquities, and the Principal Sights of Agra, Together with Some Information about Agra as It Is


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and about two Jcos in breadth and three in circumference on the Doab bank. There were public and private buildings of great size and beauty in almost every btreet, and the population was so dense and the streets so crowded that even in ordinary times the citizens found no little difficulty in passing each other. A fabulous amount of wealth was said to circulate among the citizens in the course of every day, and it was said that the number of horses sold in the city each day during eight dry months of the year came up to about six thousand of the Arab breed from Kabul. Calbanke writing to Sir Thomas Smith in the beginning of the seventeenth century speaks of Agra as a great and populous city entirely built of stone with a great deal of merchandize, and the whole city was even more imposing than the London of the age. Finch's remarks about the splendours of the nobles, in that they never allowed the garments of their concubines having been once worn ever to be put up again but ordered them to be buried into the earth until they decayed, have been often quoted. European travellers say too that there were many noblemen who kept in regular employ so many as a thousand masalchis (torch-bearers). The European travellers who have described the reign of Jehangir, were Hawkins, Roe, Finch, Terry and Coryat whose accounts all agree in saying that Agra was a most magnificent city, worthy to be the capital chapter{Section 4of the great Mogul. The buildings of Agra which were built during the reign of Jehangir, are the Hammam of Ali Verdi Khan in the Chipitola section of. the town ( built, as the inscription on it says, in 1621 )r a mosque at the entrance of the Shahganj road, the mosque of Muatmid Khan in the Kashmiri Bazar, the stone palace about half the distance between Fort and the Taj ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217612708
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217612709
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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