Armenians In India From The Earliest Times To The Present Day

Excerpt from History of the Armenians in India From the Earliest Times to the Present Day These invasions naturally served to scatter the Arme nian nation; and, leaving their homes in large numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... 40 HAMILTON ON JOB CHARNOCK'S CHARACTER. reckoned in August about 1,200 English, some military, and some servants to the Company, some private merchants residing in the town, and some seamen belonging to the shipping lying at the town, and before the beginning of January there were four hundred and sixty-burials registered in the Clerk's Book of Mortality. "Mr. Charnock, choosing the ground of the- colony where it now is, reigned more absolute than a rajah, only he wanted much of their humanity; for when any poor, ignorant natives transgressed his laws, they were sure to undergo a severe whipping for a penalty, and the execution was generally done when he was at dinner, so near his dining room that the groans and cries of the poor delinquents served him for music. "The country about being overspread with Paganism, the custom of wives burning with their deceased husbands is also practised here. Before the Mogul's war, Mr. Charnock went one time with his ordinary guard of soldiers to see a young widow act that tragical catastrophe, but he Was so smitten with the widow's beauty, that he sent his guards to take her by force from the executioners, and conduct her to his own lodgings. They lived lovingly many years, and had several children; at length she died, after he had settled in Calcutta, but, instead of converting her to Christianity, she made him a proselyte to Paganism, and the only part of Christianity that was remarkable in him was burying her decently, and he built a tomb over her, where all his life after her death he kept the anniversary-day of her death by sacrificing a cock on her tomb, after the Pagan manner. This was, and is, the common report, and I have been credibly informed, both by Christians and Pagans, who lived at...

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