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'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.' [‎28] (41/314)

The record is made up of 1 volume (297 pages). It was created in 1798. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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at FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
government, he accufed his mother of infidelity to her hufband,
and in defiance of the glaring abfurdity which appeared in the al
legation, as well as the anxious intreaties of the woman who had
borne him to fave her from fhame, fhe was ignominioufly driven
from the palace; and about the fame time, on a like frivolous
pretence, he put one of his wives to death. A film on one of his
eyes had baffled the attempts of many operators, and being impa
tient at the want of fuccefs, he told the laft furgeon who had
been called in, that if the diforder was not remedied within a
limited time, allowing but a few days, his belly fhould be cut
open ; the man failed in the cure, and Azad Khan verified his
threat.
These paffages were related to me by different perfons, fome
ft rangers in the country, others, who from the Rations they
held, would rather have been induced to fpeak favourably.
Azad Khan had, in the three firft months of his government,
become an object of fuch terror to the Kafhmirians, that the
cafual mention of his name produced an inftant horror and an
involuntary fupplication of the aid of their prophet. Among
the leffer order of his exaftions, but which feemed to me the
moft unpopular and difcouraging, is that levied from the cour
tezans or dancing girls, who are obliged to account for every
fum of money they receive, and to pay the larger fhare of it
to the intendant of the police; nor are they allowed to attend
at any feftival or entertainment, without the permiffion of that
officer.

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A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.

Publication details: printed for R Faulder, New Bond-Street, London. 1798.

Physical Description: Quarto.

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'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.' [‎28] (41/314), British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.531. vol. 2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100025538577.0x00002a> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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