A Winter in IndiaCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 196 pages Tour 1881-1882 Bombay, Delhi, Lahore, Agra, Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Poona & trip to Darjeeling; focus on Afghan policy, Indian economy, Christian education. |
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... British officers return- ing from furlough , men of large experience and cultivation ; and I am happy to find that most of them are by no means Jingoes , and that some who approved of the Afghan expedition THE HARBOUR OF ADEN . II are ...
... British officers return- ing from furlough , men of large experience and cultivation ; and I am happy to find that most of them are by no means Jingoes , and that some who approved of the Afghan expedition THE HARBOUR OF ADEN . II are ...
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... British flag , lying right in the channel commands the entrance to the Red Sea . It is only two miles distant from a very striking promontory on the Arabian coast , and we ran through that narrow passage , meeting the steamship City of ...
... British flag , lying right in the channel commands the entrance to the Red Sea . It is only two miles distant from a very striking promontory on the Arabian coast , and we ran through that narrow passage , meeting the steamship City of ...
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... British domi- nion in Hindostan to its very base , and horrified and excited the whole civilised world . Sixty- six officers and 1,100 men fell in that terrible final assault , which once more vindicated our supremacy over a population ...
... British domi- nion in Hindostan to its very base , and horrified and excited the whole civilised world . Sixty- six officers and 1,100 men fell in that terrible final assault , which once more vindicated our supremacy over a population ...
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... British force ! Since the Mutiny , all the buildings near the fort - which itself is one - and - a - quarter miles in circumference - have been demolished , and the space has been laid out in walks and trees . We entered it by the ...
... British force ! Since the Mutiny , all the buildings near the fort - which itself is one - and - a - quarter miles in circumference - have been demolished , and the space has been laid out in walks and trees . We entered it by the ...
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... , but north - west , within sound of the British . bugles and in the presence of a few wandering travellers , chiefly Scotch , come out to view this wondrous land . A very handsome museum and literary insti- tute has been.
... , but north - west , within sound of the British . bugles and in the presence of a few wandering travellers , chiefly Scotch , come out to view this wondrous land . A very handsome museum and literary insti- tute has been.
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200 Original 400 Illustrations Agra anchor beautiful Benares Bombay British bungalow Calcutta carriages Cassell's History Cawnpore Cheap Edition Christianity Church classes cloth gilt Co.'s Volumes Continued Cookery Coonoor crowded Crown 8vo Cumballa Cumballa Hill Darjeeling Delhi Demy 4to Dictionary drove English European Extra crown 4to F. E. HULME F. J. FURNIVALL Fac-simile Coloured Plates feet flowers Four Vols Galpin & Co.'s gardens gilt edges Government House half-morocco harbour Hindoo Hindostan Hotel India inhabitants interest Lahore land library binding lofty London Lord Lord Ripon Ludgate Hill Madras Major Baring Malabar Hill ment miles morning morocco mosque mountains native nearly night o'clock officers Original Illustrations passed peaks Petter picturesque plain plantations Poona population railway remarkable revenue river ROBERT BROWN ship Siliguri station steamers Suez Sunday Sunday Musings temples Three Vols tion town travelled trees Wood Engravings
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Page 194 - It has been calculated that the average income per head of population in India is not more than Rs. 27 a year; and though I am not prepared to pledge myself to the absolute accuracy of a calculation of this sort, it is sufficiently accurate to justify the conclusion that the taxpaying community is exceedingly poor. To derive any very large increase of revenue from so poor a population as this is obviously impossible, and, if it were possible, would be unjustifiable.