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  Jubbulpore - LoveToKnow 1911
Formerly the capital of the Saugor and Nerbudda territories, Jubbulpore is now the headquarters of a brigade in the 5th division of the southern army.
The District Of Jubbulpore lies on the watershed between the Nerbudda and the Son, but mostly within the valley of the former river, which here runs through the famous gorge known as the Marble rocks, and falls 30 ft. over a rocky ledge (the Dhuan dhar, or "misty shoot").
Jubbulpore suffered severely in the famine of 1896-1897, the distress being aggravated by immigration from the adjoining native states.
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 JUBBULPORE, or JABALPUR - Online Information article about JUBBULPORE, or JABALPUR
Jubbulpore is now the headquarters of a See also:
Jubbulpore suffered severely in the famine of 1896–1897, the See also:
Nagpur, who continued to hold the district until the British occupied it in 1818.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JUBBULPORE_or_JABALPUR.html   (795 words)

  
  JUBBULPORE - LoveToKnow Article on JUBBULPORE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The DISTRICT OF JUBBULPORE lies on the watershed between the Nerbudda and the Son, but mostly within the valley of the former river, which here runs through the famous gorge known as the Marble rocks, and falls 30 ft. over a rocky ledge (the Dhuan dhar, or misty shoot).
At Jubbulpore city the soil is sandy, and water plentiful near the surface.
Jubbulpore suffered severely in the famine of 1896-1897> the distress being aggravated by immigration from the adjoining native states.
78.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JU/JUBBULPORE.htm   (621 words)

  
 CENTRAL PROVINCES AND BERAR - LoveToKnow Article on CENTRAL PROVINCES AND BERAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the latter division are comprised the two Vindhyan districts of Saugor and Damoh, Jubbulpore at the head of the Nerbudda valley, and the four Satpura districts of Mandla, Seoni, Betul and Chhindwara, which enjoy, owing to their greater elevation, a distinctly lower average temperature than the rest of the province.
In the Satpura districts the inferior soil was and is principally devoted to hill millets.
Rice is an important crop in Damoh, Jubbulpore, Mandla, Seoni and Chanda, and is the chief staple of Bhandara, Balaghat, and the two eastern districts of Raipur and Bilaspur.
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In the latter division are comprised the two Vindhyan districts of Saugor and Damoh, Jubbulpore at the head of the Nerbudda valley, and the four Satpura districts of Mandla, Seoni, Betul and Chhindwara, which enjoy, owing to their greater elevation, a distinctly lower average temperature than the rest of the province.
In the Satpura districts the inferior soil was and is principally devoted to hill millets.
Rice is an important crop in Damoh, Jubbulpore, Mandla, Seoni and Chanda, and is the chief staple of Bhandara, Balaghat, and the two eastern districts of Raipur and Bilaspur.
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 Citizen of the Galaxy - Heinlein Concordance
He established himself in Jubbulpore as Baslim the Cripple, a beggar, and while in this role purchased Thorby Rudbek, eventually training the boy as a messenger and making arrangements for his return to the Hegemony in the event of Baslim's death.
Jubbulpore noblewoman from whom Thorby stole a scarf.
Jubbulpore thief from whom Thorby Rudbek learned to steal; he had already lost a hand, and risked beheading if he were caught again.
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 Rhode Island Postal History - 1944 Censored Cover - Jubbulepore, India to Cranston, RI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Jubbulpore, India (also spelled Jabalpur) is a city in Madya Pradesh state in central India.
It is one of the largest cities in the state and is located on a major road and rail junction.
Jubbulpore is military headquarters for the Indian Army and is host to a gun-carriage factory, an ordinance factory, and an ammunition depot.
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 A History of the Church of England in India, by Eyre Chatterton (1924)
Grey, Chaplain of Jubbulpore, in the Church Vestry, it was then attended by only seven or eight boys.
McLeod was appointed to Jubbulpore as Deputy Commissioner.
When we leave Jubbulpore and the northern part of the Central Provinces and come away south to our missions at Chanda and Nagpur, we find ourselves in a very different atmosphere and with a different type of people.
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 Citizen of the Galaxy - Heinlein Concordance
Jubbulpore who knew how to dislocate her joints, thus creating more sympathy and collecting more alms.
Taproom near the Jubbulpore spaceport, frequented by spacers.
Jubbulpore thief from whom Thorby Rudbek learned to steal; he had already lost a hand, and risked beheading if he were caught again.
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 ou JABALPUR JUBBULPORE - Article en ligne de l'information environ ou JABALPUR JUBBULPORE
Jubbulpore est maintenant les sièges sociaux d'une See also:
Jubbulpore a souffert sévèrement dans la famine de 1896-1897, la détresse aggravé par l'See also:
puissance au-dessus des zones de fifty-two, y compris le Jubbulpore actuel.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /fr/JEE_JUN/JUBBULPORE_ou_JABALPUR.html   (1452 words)

  
 SEONI - LoveToKnow Article on SEONI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
, a town and district of British India, in the Jubbulpore division of the Central Provinces.
The town is 2043 ft. above sea-level, half-way on the Toad between Nagpur and Jubbulpore.
It was founded in 1774, and contains large public gardens, a fine market place and a handsome tank.
78.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEONI.htm   (349 words)

  
 If you are a racing person in India you would like to meet Albert Piperno for two reasons
It was a good many years after this, when Bookmakers were tending to flock to India, that a French firm of bookmakers decided to come to Calcutta and pick up some easy money.
They arrived at Bombay and hearing that there was a Meeting at Jubbulpore, decided to break their journey on the way over.
This they did, only to be relieved of their entire working capital by the not so simple punters of Jubbulpore in the space of three days.
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 JUBBULPORE, or JABALPUR - Encyclopedia Britannica - JUBBULPORE, or JABALPUR - JCSM's Study Center
of the Saugor and Nerbudda territories, Jubbulpore is now the headquarters of a brigade in the 5th division of the southern army.
of JUBBULPORE lies on the watershed between the Nerbudda and the Son, but mostly within the valley of the former river, which here runs through the famous gorge known as the Marble rocks, and falls 30 ft. over a rocky ledge (the Dhuan dhar, or " misty shoot ").
The DIVIsIox OF JUBBULPORE lies mainly among the Vindhyan and Satpura hill systems.
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 Jubulpore - On Finding the Best Mango. "In Jubulpore," said one, "a man who made a tank dared not drink from its waters ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Jub·bul·pore (P) Pronunciation Key (jb industrial city of central India southeast of Delhi [syn: Jabalpur, Jubbulpore].
In the ritual by which a non-Free Trader is adopted He established himself in Jubbulpore as Baslim the Cripple, a beggar, and.
(Redirected from Jubbulpore) Jabalpur is a city in Madhya Pradesh state of India The former British Jubbulpore Division of the Central Provinces comprised the districts of Damoh.
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 Amazon.com: Jubbulpore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Note on the fossil jaw, sent from Jubbulpore by Dr. Spilsbury by Henry Piddington (Unknown Binding - 1841)
There was a yogi in Jubbulpore when I was a girl,...
the road `from Maihar to Jubbulpore' in 1829 and 1830, and...
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 Snooker - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the late 19th century, billiards games were popular among British army officers stationed in India, and players used to experiment with variations on the game.
The most commonly accepted story is that, at the officers' mess in Jubbulpore in 1875, Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (no relation to the later Prime Minister) suggested adding coloured balls to a billiards game.
The word 'snooker' was army slang for a first-year cadet.
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However, they got the rest of the family--the mother, wife, child, and brother--and brought them to the officer, at Jubbulpore; the officer did not fret, but bided his time: "I knew Feringhea would not go far while links so dear to him were in my hands." He was right.
Feringhea knew all the danger he was running by staying in the neighborhood, still he could not tear himself away.
The officer found that he divided his time between five villages where be had relatives and friends who could get news for him from his family in Jubbulpore jail; and that he never slept two consecutive nights in the same village.
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 Following the Equator eBook
However, they got the rest of the family—­the mother, wife, child, and brother—­and brought them to the officer, at Jubbulpore; the officer did not fret, but bided his time: “I knew Feringhea would not go far while links so dear to him were in my hands.” He was right.
Feringhea knew all the danger he was running by staying in the neighborhood, still he could not tear himself away.
The officer found that he divided his time between five villages where be had relatives and friends who could get news for him from his family in Jubbulpore jail; and that he never slept two consecutive nights in the same village.
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 Thug Or A Million Murders by Colonel James L. Sleeman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was, however, an active and enterprising man, but becoming less fit for exertion such as his situation required (as a leader of Thugs!), and his son Koman having been seized by other Thugs and thrown into confinement at Jubbulpore, affected him so much that he renounced Thuggee and shortly after died.
He first brought himself into notice with the gentlemen (Englishmen) by informing against a Thug gang which, in consequence, was seized and confined at Jubbulpore.
This action advanced him in favour, for the gentlemen thought that he acted as a check upon the Thugs.
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 Raja Gokuldas
This display of obstinacy in young Gokuldas was but a sign of a strong and resolute character, which shone out, in his later life.
But those few who knew it can testify to the great good that the people of Jubbulpore derived from it at one time, though it is true, that it was conducted on old lines.
When she learnt of the sad news of Raja Sahib’s bereavement, she left for Jubbulpore at once, and graced his house with her sacred presence.
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 EABA : Online Books : The Breaks Came My Way (Joe Davis)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He explained that out in Jubbulpore during the rains of 1875 Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain, then a young subaltern, was becoming increasingly weary of the endless games of Black Pool with which his brother officers sought to alleviate the longueurs of the wet afternoons.
The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle was supplied one afternoon when a subaltern of the Field Battery at Jubbulpore was being entertained by the Devons and happened to tell Chamberlain about the nick-name 'snooker' given to the tyro cadets at the Royal Military Academy.
So much for all those people whose grandfathers were in the same regiment as a certain Captain Snooker and were actually in the billiard-room when he made up the game.
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 Theosophical Society in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
We arrived at Jubbulpore [and] on the evening of the lecture, Colonel Olcott, Damodar, several fellows of the Society, and I drove together to the place of the public meeting.
As to his being perceived clairvoyantly as an "elderly man," that could never be, he added, as real clairvoyance could lead no one into such mistaken notions; and then he kindly reprimanded me for giving any importance to the age of a Guru, adding that appearances were often false, etc., and explaining other points.
In the month of January 1884, I was at Jubbulpore with Brother Nivaran Chandra Mookerjee, who was then the Secretary of [the local branch of] the Theosophical Society.
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 Raja Gokuldas
In the year 1908, he went to Sophapur in Hoshabgabad district of C.P. to condole with a relation.
At 20 minutes past ten, on of 1908, Raja Gokuldas passed away at the age of 69.
But he is still alive, very much part of the Jubbulpore, will remain in reminiscence of the Central Province for the philanthropic works.
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 Il Giro di Flora e fauna selvatiche di Rajasthan, Rajasthan il Giro di vita Selvaggio, la Flora e fauna selvatiche di ...
Il giorno 9 dell'itinerario di giro della fauna selvatica del Ragiastan con l'azionamento del programma di corsa dell'India a Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Imbarchisi su un treno a Jubbulpore in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Goda un safari iniziale di mattina alle foreste di Kanha ed allora guidi a Jubbulpore accompagnata dalla guida del programma di corsa dell'India.
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 Kamat Research Database - Pandit Mishra
In 1932 he again showed his original skill by organizing "a silent" public meeting in the Jubbulpore City, which continued for four days continuously.
While he was in the prison he was the President of the Jubbulpore Municipality.
As the secretary of the Mahakosal provincial Parliamentary Board he conducted the election campaign with colossal energy and incomparable brilliance.
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 [Tavern-Talk] HEART TALK: Letters from Adi K. Irani, No. 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In spite of all the best they all tried to give us comfort in Hyderabad, there were so many complications that made our stay there rather uncomfortable and even unsuitable for the work.
I hope you are back in Meherabad and carrying out with full vigour the three works I entrusted you.
Tell Gulmae I am staying here from 20 to 30 days, and will definitely call her and you as promised already/ Tell her also that she has missed nothing as the real tour will begin after leaving Jubbulpore.
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 Arcade Leisure - pool tables snooker tables and trampolines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The term 'snooker' is reputed to have been given to the game by Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (no relation to the wartime Prime Minister) in 1875.
In the Officers' Mess at Jubbulpore in India, gambling games such as pyramids, life pool and fl pool were popular, with fifteen reds and a fl used in the latter.
Snooker, they say, began on a very wet and miserable day in Jubbulpore in India in 1875.
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 Citizen of The Galaxy
Thorby could easily have become just another low criminal, but his adopted father, Baslim the Cripple, refuses to let this happen.
He teaches Thorby to read, and forces him to expand his horizons beyond the narrow world of Jubbulpore.
Baslim is more than he appears to be and is finally arrested and executed by the Sargon’s government, but not before making arrangements for Thorby to leave the planet.
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 The Thug School of Industry, Jubbulpore, 1863 Giclee Print by William Simpson at AllPosters.com
The Thug School of Industry, Jubbulpore, 1863 Giclee Print by William Simpson at AllPosters.com
The Thug School of Industry, Jubbulpore, 1863 by William Simpson
This art print was created using a sophisticated digital printer.
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 Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge
Voyage to India 1828, which includes a preface and list of passengers, and the journals for 1829 and 1830 follow, which give his first impressions of India when he arrives in Calcutta, and give a picture of the social life there of the time.
Eighteen MS copies of Military Reports from Erskine, Commissioner Jubbulpore Division 19 October 1857 - 11 June 1860 (including report on the mutiny at Sohagpoor).
Copy of MS letter written by Erskine to Viscount Canning from Jubbulpore, 31 July 1857, about his differences with Brigadier Sage who separated the Indians from the English and left them unattended with arms, and would not even let the loyal ones join the Europeans.
www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk /Handlist_E.htm   (3003 words)

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