Lexicographical Neighbors of Kisans
| kirsome kirtan kirtankar kirtankars kirtans kirtle kirtled kirtles kirumbo kis | kisan kisans (current term) kish kishes kishka kishkas kishke kishkes kisir kismat | kismats kismet kismetic kismets kiss'd |
Literary usage of Kisans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Love and Love-stories by Henry Theophilus Finck (1899)
"The kisans, Mundas. ... some other boy's " wife "J The young folks are obviously
in the habit of obeying implicitly, for as Dalton says (132) of the kisans. ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"... kisans, and Brahmans each cultivate about or 8 per cent. There were 4600 native
Christians in 1901, of whom 4488 were Methodists. ..."
3. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"Yet, speaking of the kisans, Colonel Dalton says that "there is no instance on
record of a youth or maiden objecting to the arrangement made for them. ..."
4. The Old-fashioned Woman: Primitive Fancies about the Sex by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1913)
"... in the Man- goni country, two buck skins; in Uganda, three or four bullocks,
a box of percussion caps, or six sewing needles; among the kisans, ..."
5. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"... and the bad variety of so-called leaders should find for themselves some
ostensible means of honest living and leave the kisans and the labourers alone. ..."
6. The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family by Charles Jean Marie Letourneau (1895)
"These are : the Nagas, who are contented to make their one wife work very hard ;
the kisans, who limit themselves to a single wife, and have not even any ..."
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