Native States


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Native States

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(Historical Terms) the former 562 semi-independent states of India, ruled by Indians but subject to varying degrees of British authority: merged with provinces by 1948; largest states were Hyderabad, Gwalior, Baroda, Mysore, Cochin, Jammu and Kashmir, Travancore, Sikkim, and Indore. Also called: Indian States and Agencies
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There was once a man in India who was Prime Minister of one of the semi-independent native States in the north-western part of the country.
Very few native States take up English progress altogether, for they will not believe, as Purun Dass showed he did, that what was good for the Englishman must be twice as good for the Asiatic.
Martha might have been the wife of a man who sat among the senators of his native state, and Adam could have won the hand, as he had unintentionally won the heart, of a rich and comely widow.
What a situation, now, for a patriotic senator, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors!
Our good senator in his native state had not been exceeded by any of his brethren at Washington, in the sort of eloquence which has won for them immortal renown!
He becomes, it may be, a name for brawling parties to bandy to and fro, a legislator of the Union; a governor of his native state; an ambassador to the courts of kings or queens; and the world may deem him a man of happy stars.
I am endowed with an excellent sense of direction, which has been greatly perfected by the years I have spent in the mountains and upon the plains and deserts of my native state, so that it was with little or no difficulty that I found my way back to the hut in which I had left Ajor.
He repaid them in kind with large extracts from his invaluable author, Cotton Mather, and added many marvellous events that had taken place in his native State of Connecticut, and fearful sights which he had seen in his nightly walks about Sleepy Hollow.
The families would also be given the ex-gratia amount announced by their respective native states to which the slain personnel belonged and the ex-gratia announced by the duty state.
Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, all of LeAnne's recipes comprising "The China Study Cookbook" follow three important principles: optimal nutrition is based on eating foods, not taking supplements; the closer foods are to their native states, the greater their long-term health benefits; and choosing locally grown organic produce whenever possible maximizes nutritional value.
For the folding pathway, three kinetic phases for the rate constants have been identified between the unfolded and native states, indicating the existence of two intermediates.