HINTS FOR CAMPING

Travellers who leave the beaten track with the intention of shooting, or for the purpose of visiting remote or ruined cities, should take a small tent or two with them. Transport in the shape of camels, carts, baggage-ponies, or bearers, can usually be got in any district headquarters, and in the larger places riding-ponies and light carts, or perhaps even European traps for driving, can be obtained. Those who intend to go into camp (as the Anglo-Indian term runs) will probably be experienced in organising such expeditions, or will have friends who will make arrangements for them, and, in any case, a courteous request for assistance made by calling upon the principal English or Indian officer of the place is sure to meet with courteous consideration; but perhaps the following suggestions of requirements may prove of some use in the case of a solitary traveller who does not mind a certain amount of roughing. In Kashmir camp equipment as below can be hired from the Agents there-elsewhere it would have to be purchased.

Tent (Cabul tent, 80 lb. complete) for self, and, if the weather is cold or likely to be wet, a pal tent for servants; a few iron tent pegs (wooden ones for soft ground); and a mallet. Camp-bed with side poles of one piece, table, chairs, and carpet. India-rubber flat bath, and a board to stand on, or tubbing can be done by pouring pots of water over the head (fresh pots can be purchased at any village), a screen (kanát) to use as a bath-room, a washing-basin (chilamchi) and stand, hooks to strap on tent-pole for hanging clothes on, etc.; aluminium cooking-pots, and fry-pan, an iron dish or two, a few knives, forks, and spoons, aluminium plates, cups, and saucers, and mustard, pepper and salt pots. Servants required in camp are—a man or boy to wait, a cook, a water - carrier (bhisti), a sweeper, and grooms for horses. All food for the traveller, except milk and fresh meat, must be taken with him. Food for servants, milk, and meat (goat or sheep or chickens), can be got in any but the poorest villages. For bedding and clothes take blankets, sheets (luxury), an Indian shooting-suit, rough boots and gaiters, a light flannel suit or two, a large sun-hat for shooting in, a second sunhat and a cap for wear in the evening. A mosquito-net and poles will be needed.

carpets should be shifted other insects can commit

If white ants are about, boxes and every morning. The ravages these and are rapid and extensive. Persons not accustomed to camping out should always have straw put on the ground under the tent carpet.

For arms the plainer the better-1 central fire D.B. hammer

12-bore gun, 1 C.F.D.B. express rifle, 500 bore. Empty 12-bore cartridges, powder, and shot of all kinds can be purchased.

For medicine, plenty of quinine in 3- or 5-grain "tabloids " or pills (to be taken before or after food whenever a chill or feverishness is felt), some aspirin, some aperient, some chlorodyne, and some ammonia for mosquito bites.

Books

No single list can satisfy

The literature on India is enormous. all tastes. In the selection given below the requirements of travellers have been mainly kept in view. Certain standard books, which are bulky or difficult to procure, are omitted. Books for special subjects or places, and for Burma, Kashmir and Ceylon have been quoted in the body of the Handbook.

REFERENCE

The Indian Year Book. (Times of India, Bombay; annual; contains useful Bibliography.)

The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vols. I.-IV., Descriptive, Historical, Economic and Administrative, with sectional Bibliographies. (Clarendon Press, 1907-9.)

Cambridge University Press Provincial Geographies of India.
Madras Presidency, by E. Thurston (1914).

Punjab, N.W. Frontier and Kashmir, by Sir J. Douie (1916).
Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Sikkim, by L. S. O'Malley (1917).
Burma, by Sir H. T. White (1923).

Thacker's Indian Directory. (Calcutta ; annual.)

Statement exhibiting the Moral and Material Progress and Condition in India (H. M. Stationery Office; annual.)

GENERAL

E. H. Aitken, The Tribes on my Frontier. (Natural History; Thacker, 1883.)

Sir Valentine Chirol, India Old and New. (Macmillan, 1912.)

Price Collier, The West in the East from an American Point of View. (Duckworth, 1911.)

D. Dewar, Bygone Days in India. (John Lane, 1922.)

C. Field, The Charm of India. (Anthology; Simpkin, Marshall, 1912.)

C. W. E. Cotton, Handbook of Commercial Information for India. (Calcutta, 1920.)

O. J. Couldrey, South Indian Hours. (Hurst & Blackett, 1924.)

GENERAL--continued

R. W. Frazer, A Literary History of India. (Unwin, 1898.)

Sir Bampfylde Fuller, Studies of Indian Life and Sentiment. (Murray, 1910.)

Sir T. W. Holderness, Peoples and Problems of India. (Williams & Norgate, 1912.)

Sir T. H. Holdich, India. (Regions of the World Series.) (Clarendon Press, 1904.)

E. A. Horne, The Political System of British India. (Clarendon Press, 1922.)

A. B. Keith, Speeches and Documents on India Policy, 1750-1921. (World's Classics, 1922.)

J. Lockwood Kipling, Beast and Man in India.

(Macmillan, 1891.)

J. Ramsay Mac Donald, The Awakening of India. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.)

Mortimer Menpes and F. A. Steel, India. (A. & C. Black, 2nd Edn., 1923.)

Lt.-Col. H. A. Newell, Topee and Turban. (Motor Tours; John Lane, 1921.)

E. F. Oaten, European Travellers in India during the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (Kegan Paul, 1909.)

The Earl of Ronaldshay, India: A Bird's-Eye View. (Constable, 1924.)

Dr G. Slater, The Dravidian Element in Indian Culture. (Ernest Benn, 1924.)

J. A. Spender, The Indian Scene. (Methuen, 1912.)

Sir John Strachey, India: Its Administration and Progress. (Macmillan; 4th Edit., 1911.)

Sir W. H. Sleeman, Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official. (Orig. 1844; Constable, 1893.)

C. H. Van Tyne, India in Ferment.

ART

(Appleton, 1923.)

Percy Brown, Indian Painting. (Heritage of India Series; Oxford University Press, 1918.)

James Fergusson, History of Indian and Eastern Architecture. (1876; 2nd Edit., Murray, 1910.)

E. B. Havell, Handbook of Indian Art. (Murray, 1920.)

HISTORY

J. D. Cunningham, History of the Sikhs. (Orig. 1849; Murray, 1918.) R. C. Dutt, History of Civilisation in Ancient India. (Trubner, 1889.) C. A. Kincaid and Rao Bahadur Parasnis, History of the Marathas. (Oxford University Press, 1918.)

HISTORY-continued

T. R. E. Holmes, History of the Indian Mutiny. (Macmillan, 1904.) S. Lane Poole, Medieval India. (Unwin, 1903.)

Sir V. Lovett, India.

Stoughton, 1923.)

(Nations of To-day Series; Hodder &

Ramsay Muir, The Making of British India. (Manchester University

Press, 1915.)

E. Rapson, Cambridge History of India, Vol. I.

Ancient India.

1922.)

(Bibliography; Cambridge University Press,

T. W. Rhys Davids, Buddhist India. (Unwin, 1903.)

P. E. Roberts, Historical Geography of India.
Pt. I. To end of East India Co. (Clarendon Press, 1916.)

Pt. II.

1919.)

Under Government of the Crown.

(Clarendon Press,

V. A. Smith, The Oxford History of India. (Clarendon Press, 2nd Edn., 1923.)

F. A. Steel, India through the Ages. (Routledge, 1919.)

Col. J. Tod, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. (Orig. 1829; Routledge, 1914.)

LANGUAGES

F. A. L. Davidson, Anglicised Colloquial Burmese.

Marlborough Series, Tamil Self Taught.

Singhalese Self Taught.

Lt.-Col. G. S. Ranking, A Pocket Book of Colloquial Hindustani.

RELIGION AND ETHNOLOGY

J. D. Anderson, The Peoples of India. (Cambridge University Press, 1913.)

A. Barth, The Religions of India. (Trubner, 1906.)

J. N. Farquhar, Modern Religious Movements in India. (Macmillan, 1915.)

J. N. Farquhar, Outline of the Religious Literature of India. (Oxford University Press, 1920.)

H. Hackmann, Buddhism as a Religion. (Probsthain, 1910.)
Sir A. C. Lyall, Asiatic Studies. (Murray, 1899.)

M. A. Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion. (Oxford, 1909.)

Prof. D. S. Margoliouth, Mohammedanism. (Williams & Norgate, 1911.)

J. C. Oman, Mystics, Ascetics and Saints of India. (Unwin, 1905.)
J. C. Oman, Brahmans, Theists and Muslims of India. (Unwin, 1907.)

RELIGION AND ETHNOLOGY-continued

Rev. Canon Robinson, The History of Christian Missions.

Clark, Edinburgh, 1915.)

W. J. Wilkins, Hindu Mythology. (Thacker, 1900.)

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SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY

F. G. Aflalo, The Sportsman's Book for India. (Marshall, 1904.) E. C. Stuart Baker, Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. (Bombay Natural History Society, 1921.)

W. S. Burke, The Indian Field Book.

(Calcutta, 1908.)

A. A. Dunbar Brander, Wild Animals of Central India. (Arnold, 1923.)

Sir E. L. Durand, Rifle, Rod and Spear in the East. (Murray, 1911.) F. W. F. Fletcher, Sport in the Nilgiris and in Wynaad. (Macmillan, 1911.)

R. W. G. Hingston, A Naturalist in Hindustan. (Wetherby, 1923.) G. H. Lacy, Angler's Handbook for India. (Revised by Dr E. Cretin; Newman, Calcutta.)

C. E. M. Russell, Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill. (Thacker, 1900.)

E. P. Stebbing, Diary of a Sportsman Naturalist in India. (John Lane, 1920.)

(2) VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO GIBRALTAR, MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORT SAID, THROUGH THE SUEZ CANAL AND RED SEA TO ADEN AND BOMBAY

The principal steamer Lines running from England to India are the P. & O. and British India Companies from London, and the Ellerman (City and Hall) Lines from Liverpool to Bombay, Colombo, Madras, and Calcutta; the Anchor Line from Liverpool, the Lloyd Triestino from Trieste, Venice, and Brindisi, and the Marittima Italiana from Genoa and Naples to Bombay; the Bibby and Henderson Lines from Liverpool to Rangoon; the Orient, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and the Australian Commonwealth Line from London, the Rotterdam Lloyd, and the Nederland Line from Southampton, 1 P. & O. and British India Offices: 14 Cockspur Street, S.W. 1, London, Orient S. N. Co.: 5 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C. 3. Offices of Thos. Cook & Son, General Passage Agents): Ludgate Circus, E. C., Piccadilly, W., and branches.)