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From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and ... Indian or Primeval Chess Board - Various Altera- tions in its Form , and in the Manner of Playing the Game - Timur's Great ...
From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and ... Indian or Primeval Chess Board - Various Altera- tions in its Form , and in the Manner of Playing the Game - Timur's Great ...
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... India , but not a single reliable scrap tending to prove that it was either invented or known in any other country previously . It may be asked , then - how came so many writers to ascribe the invention to so many other coun- tries ...
... India , but not a single reliable scrap tending to prove that it was either invented or known in any other country previously . It may be asked , then - how came so many writers to ascribe the invention to so many other coun- tries ...
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From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes. Welsh , the Araucanians , ' the Jews , the Scythians , and finally , their fair Majesties ...
From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes. Welsh , the Araucanians , ' the Jews , the Scythians , and finally , their fair Majesties ...
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From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and ... Indian origin . It is well known that the vast alluvial plains of the Panjab , as well as those bordering on the Ganges ...
From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and ... Indian origin . It is well known that the vast alluvial plains of the Panjab , as well as those bordering on the Ganges ...
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... India ; and further , it is the repre- sentation of a mode of warfare that was most peculiarly adapted to that country in ancient times . The ancient Hindu account of the origin of the game is not unlike that of many more modern ...
... India ; and further , it is the repre- sentation of a mode of warfare that was most peculiarly adapted to that country in ancient times . The ancient Hindu account of the origin of the game is not unlike that of many more modern ...
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