* This sign in the text appended to a name indicates that further information relating to the subject is to be found in the INDEX AND DIRECTORY at the end of the book. = INDIAN CURRENCY One rupee 16 annas (Is. 6d.); 1 lakh=100,000 rs. (£7500); I crore = 100 lakhs (£750,000). GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NOTES (value, rupees 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 1000, 10,000) circulate throughout India. BRITISH INDIAN MONEY AND POSTAGE STAMPS are current in all INDIAN STATES. The coins and stamps of Indian States are limited to the territories of their respective States. In Ceylon the rupee is divided into 100 cents. TRAVELLERS IN INDIA BURMA AND CEYLON INCLUDING ALL BRITISH INDIA, THE PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH "India and the Golden Chersonese And utmost Indian Isle Taprobane, Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed." -MILTON, Par. Reg., iv. 74-76 THIRTEENTH EDITION WITH NUMEROUS MAPS AND PLANS LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1 This sign in the text appended to a name indicates that further information relating to the subject is to be found in the Index and Directory at the end. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE EDINBURGH PRESS, 9 AND II YOUNG STREET, EDINBURGH THE Handbook for Travellers in India was originally published by Mr John Murray in three volumes for the Bombay, Madras and Bengal Presidencies. The first of these parts appeared in 1859, the Bengal volume not till 1882. A fourth volume dealing with the Punjab and North-West India was added in 1883. They were prepared by Captain E. B. Eastwick, M.P., who made long visits to India in the fifties, sixties, and seventies of the nineteenth century, in order to collect the material for them on the spot. These volumes were revised and brought up to date on several occasions, and in 1892 the Handbook was issued in a single volume. The description of Ceylon was written by Sir Arthur Gordon, G.C.M.G. (afterwards Lord Stanmore); and the whole Handbook passed through the hands of Sir George W. Forrest, C.I.E., then Keeper of Records to the Government of India. A second edition of the consolidated Handbook was published in 1894. The third edition was issued in 1898, the general revision being undertaken by Mr Norwood Young. The next, the fourth edition, which was a reprint of the third, brought up to date, was prepared in 1901 by Dr Burgess, C.I.E. The fifth was a thorough revision, undertaken by Mr Herbert C. Fanshawe, C.S.I., in 1904; and in that the Ceylon part was revised by Mr C. G. Ryan. The sixth, which was a reprint of the fifth, brought up to date, was also undertaken by Mr Fanshawe in 1907. The seventh in 1908 was undertaken by the same editor; and was mainly a reprint of the fifth. The sections on Burma and Ceylon were finally revised with the assistance of Mr G. E. Marindin and Mr C. G. Ryan. The next general revision was made in the eighth edition of 1911 by Mr Fanshawe. By 1913 another edition was called for, and a complete revision in the ninth was made by Mr Charles E. Buckland, C.I.E. The tenth edition of 1919, which was likewise a general revision, was also prepared by Mr Buckland; but it suffered from the disabilities arising from the Great War. In 1920 a reprint of the 1919 edition was issued, with a few changes |