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621.
_History of the Gurha Mundala Rajas, by Captain W.H.Sleeman._ [An elaborate history of the Gond dynasty of Garha Mandla, 'which is believed to be founded principally on the chronicles of the Bajpai family, who were the hereditary prime ministers of the Gond princes.' (_Central Provinces Gazetteer,_ 1870, p.

282, note.) The history is, therefore, subject to the doubts which necessarily attach to all Indian family traditions.] (6.) W.H.Sleeman._Analysis and Review of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Ricardo or New School of Political Economy._ 8vo, Serampore, 1837.
[A copy is entered in the printed catalogue of the library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.] (7.) Calcutta (Serampore), 1839, 8vo.
A REPORT on THE SYSTEM OF MEGPUNNAISM, or The Murder of Indigent Parents for their Young Children (who are sold as Slaves) as it prevails in the Delhi Territories, and the Native States of Rajpootana, Ulwar, and Bhurtpore.
By Major W.H.Sleeman.
---- From the Serampore Press.
1839.
[Thin 8vo, pp.

iv and 121.
A very curious and valuable account of a little-known variety of Thuggee, which possibly may still be practised.

Copies exist in the British Museum and India Office Libraries, but the Bodleian has not a copy.] (8.) Calcutta, 1840, 8vo.
REPORT ON THE DEPREDATIONS COMMITTED BY THE THUG GANGS of UPPER AND CENTRAL INDIA, From the Cold Season of 1836-7, down to their Gradual Suppression, under the operation of the measures adopted against them by the Supreme Government in the year 1839.
By Major Sleeman _Commissioner for the Suppression of Thuggee and Dacoitee._ Calcutta: G.H.Huttmann, Bengal Military Orphan Press.
1840.
[Thick 8vo, pp.

lviii, 549 and xxvi.
The information recorded is similar to that given in the earlier _Ramaseeana_ volume.


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