 If six brothers dwell together in one house, and the elder brother marries, his wife becomes equally the wife of the other five, and the intercourse so far from being disgraceful, is familiarly considered as a national rite; not a man in the country knows...  Mysore and Coorg: Coorg - Page 111by Benjamin Lewis Rice - 1878Full view - About this book
 | G. Richter - 1870 - 510 pages
...brothers dwell together in one house, and the elder brother marries, his wife becomes equally the wife of the other five, and the intercourse so far from...aliens of your home and establish you in a distant laud, and thus at once extinguish rebellion and plurality of husbands and initiate you in the more... | |
 | United Service Institution of India - 1903 - 876 pages
...national rite ; not a man in the country knows his father, and the ascendancy of women, and bastardy of children, is your common attribute ; from the period...repeated, I have made a vow to God to honour every mau of the country with Islam ; I will make them aliens to their home, and establish them in a distant... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1879 - 536 pages
...bastardy of children is your common attribute. From the period of my father's conquest you have rebelled 7 times, and caused the death of thousands of our troops....if rebellion be ever repeated, I have made a vow to honor every man in the country with Islam. I will make them aliens to their home, and establish them... | |
 | sir Charles Lewis Tupper - 1893 - 448 pages
...the country with an army, and for the time restored quiet. ' If rebellion,' he declared, ' ever be repeated, I have made a vow to God to honour every man of the cour.try with Islam.' Another rebellion occurred. Tippoo entered Coorg in two columns, burned and destroyed... | |
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