 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1858 - 432 páginas
...fellow who was only lately beating a drum to a party of dancing-girls, on some four rupees a-month. These singers are all Domes, the lowest of the low...eunuchs are now the virtual sovereigns of the country, and must be so as long as the King retains any power. The minister depends entirely upon them, and... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1858 - 424 páginas
...and is for seven and eight hours together living in the house of the chief singer, Rajee-od Dowla — a fellow who was only lately beating a drum to a party of dancing-girls, on some four rupees a-month. These singers are all Domes, the lowest of the low castes... | |
 | William Knighton - 1921 - 402 páginas
...and is for seven and eight hours together living in the house of the chief singer, Rajee-ood-Dowlah, a fellow who was only lately beating a drum to a party...mother — '' the queen my mistress ' of Elihu Jan's narrative — is mentioned first b)Sir William, proving that she was a superior woman. The resolution... | |
 | W. H. Sleeman - 1996 - 428 páginas
...and is for seven and eight hours together living in the house of the chief singer, Rajee-od Dowla—a fellow who was only lately beating a drum to a party of dancing-girls, on some four rupees a-month. These singers are all Domes, the lowest of the low castes... | |
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Dowla—a fellow who was only lately beating a drum to a party of dancing-girls, on some four rupees a-month. These singers are all Domes, the lowest of the low castes of India, and they and the eunuchs are now the virtual sovereigns of the country, and... 