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| | Theosophical Society in America |
 | | Let us say he is in Tibet, while I am in Madras or London. | | | But you have seen some of the occult letters? | | | Hartmann received more than one at Adyar, Madras, when I was in London; I could hardly have written them. |
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http://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/books/esotericworld/chapter18
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| | King of the Madras, and brother of Madri, second wife of Pandu. | | | It has been identified with the Sagala of Ptolemy on the Hyphasis (Byas), south-west of Lahore. | | | In the great war he left the side of the panda- vas and went over to the Kauravas. |
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http://www.mypurohith.com/Encyclopedia/EnclopS.asp
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| | TELUGU - LoveToKnow Article on TELUGU |
| | The Telugu-speaking peoples are partly subjects of the nizam of Hyderabad and partly under British rule, beginning north of Madras city and extending N.W. to Bellary, where Telugu meets Kanarese, and N.E to near Orissa. | | | They formed the greater part of the early Madras or coast army, whence sepoys even in Bengal were formerly called telingas. | | | In 1901 the number of speakers of Telugu in all India was nearly twentyone millions. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/T/TE/TELUGU.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Review The spice of life |
| | One of the most telling anecdotes in Lizzie Collingham's book concerns a second generation British man who prefers the Anglo-Indian dishes that he eats in the family restaurant to the food that his parents cook at home. | | | Most people are aware that the curry we eat after the pub on Friday nights has little to do with what is simultaneously being consumed halfway across the world in the domestic dining rooms of Mumbai or Madras. | | | Buy Curry: A Biography at the Guardian bookshop |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1556478,00.html
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| | Arabian Nights - Annotated Index |
| | It was an arduous reading experience (of course the surroundings didn't help; the Staatsbibliothek doesn't like rare books to leave the reading hall ;-). | | | A few years ago, I worked myself through the first two volumes of Burton's n+k-volume edition of the Nights (published in Madras or some such place). | | | I first got interested in the Nights when they were mentioned en passant by Arno Schmidt; some time later, the person of Richard Francis Burton was driven into my consciousness by being resurrected in P.J. Farmer`s ``Riverworld''. |
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http://mfx.dasburo.com/an/a_index_commented.html
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