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TEZPUR, or TEJPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 716 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEZPUR, or TEJPUR , a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, the administrative headquarters of See also:Darrang See also:district, Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Brahmaputra. Pop. (Igor) 5047. It is the centre of a flourishing See also:tea See also:industry, and contains many houses of See also:English residents. Communications are maintained by See also:river steamer, while a See also:light railway runs northward through the tea-growing See also:tract. THA'See also:ALIBI [See also:Abu Mansur `Abd ul-Malik See also:ibn Mahommed ibn See also:Ismail uth-Tha'alibil (961-1038), Arabian philologist, was See also:born in See also:Nishapur, and is said to have been at one See also:time a furrier. Although he wrote See also:prose and See also:verse of his own, he was most famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams. Like many other Arabian writers, he does not always distinguish between his own and other See also:people's See also:work. Of the twenty-nine See also:works known to have been written by him, the most famous is his Kitdb Yatimat ud-Dahr, on the poets of his own and earlier times, arranged according to the countries of the poets, and containing valuable extracts (published at See also:Damascus, 4 vols., 1887). Another of his works, the Kitdb Fiqh ul-Lugha, is lexicographical, the words being arranged in classes. It has been published at See also:Paris (1861), See also:Cairo (1867), and See also:Beirut (1885, incomplete). For his other works see C.

Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, vol. i. (See also:

Weimar, 1898), pp. 284-86. (G. W.

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