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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... Sunday in the Hôtel of the Four Seasons . On Monday morning we were provided with a handsome saloon carriage , in which we travelled all the way to Venice . In some parts of the THROUGH THE TYROL . 3 Bavarian plain the peasants were 2 A ...
... Sunday in the Hôtel of the Four Seasons . On Monday morning we were provided with a handsome saloon carriage , in which we travelled all the way to Venice . In some parts of the THROUGH THE TYROL . 3 Bavarian plain the peasants were 2 A ...
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... Sunday we were standing in and out at Brindisi , waiting for the pilot , who was in bed . The ship is manned chiefly by natives of the East , who go under the general designation of Lascars , most of whom come from the islands and ...
... Sunday we were standing in and out at Brindisi , waiting for the pilot , who was in bed . The ship is manned chiefly by natives of the East , who go under the general designation of Lascars , most of whom come from the islands and ...
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... Sunday morning it was 86 ° in the shade on the companion , and few people had been able to sleep from the heat . At 10.30 a.m. all hands were mustered in their Sunday dress on the quarter - deck , and at 10.45 a young chaplain going out ...
... Sunday morning it was 86 ° in the shade on the companion , and few people had been able to sleep from the heat . At 10.30 a.m. all hands were mustered in their Sunday dress on the quarter - deck , and at 10.45 a young chaplain going out ...
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... Sunday the thermometer in the stoke - hole was 154 ° . We have several excellent artists on board , and people who fall asleep in ungraceful attitudes , A BALL ON DECK . 13 especially when they are 12 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... Sunday the thermometer in the stoke - hole was 154 ° . We have several excellent artists on board , and people who fall asleep in ungraceful attitudes , A BALL ON DECK . 13 especially when they are 12 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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... Sunday , two of our party being ill : principally in consequence of the miserable accommodation and cooking at the Northbrook Hotel . I was attracted by the name , and outside it looked well enough ; but altogether it answered to the ...
... Sunday , two of our party being ill : principally in consequence of the miserable accommodation and cooking at the Northbrook Hotel . I was attracted by the name , and outside it looked well enough ; but altogether it answered to the ...
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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.