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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Page 75
... wooden horses . Thus luxuriously did we drop down the sacred river for the whole length of the city , and nothing could exceed the picturesque effect produced by the rays of the just - risen sun upon its towers and domes and temples and ...
... wooden horses . Thus luxuriously did we drop down the sacred river for the whole length of the city , and nothing could exceed the picturesque effect produced by the rays of the just - risen sun upon its towers and domes and temples and ...
Page 76
... wood , to burn the corpses laid on the banks ; while goats , cows , donkeys , monkeys , vultures , parroquets and crows mingled freely with the devout multitude . The architecture of some of the houses be- longing to native princes ...
... wood , to burn the corpses laid on the banks ; while goats , cows , donkeys , monkeys , vultures , parroquets and crows mingled freely with the devout multitude . The architecture of some of the houses be- longing to native princes ...
Page 131
... wood looking at a distance exactly like a plantation of Scotch firs seventy years old it is eucalyptus aged eleven . The Chin- chona plantations of Government on the Neil- gherries , one of which adjoins the garden at Ootakamund , are ...
... wood looking at a distance exactly like a plantation of Scotch firs seventy years old it is eucalyptus aged eleven . The Chin- chona plantations of Government on the Neil- gherries , one of which adjoins the garden at Ootakamund , are ...
Page 199
... Wood Magic : A Fable . By RICHARD JEFFERIES , Author of The Gamekeeper at Home , " & c . Cheap Edition , cloth , 6s . English and Irish Land Questions . Collected Essays by the Right Hon . G. SHAW - LEFEVRE , M.P. , First Commissioner ...
... Wood Magic : A Fable . By RICHARD JEFFERIES , Author of The Gamekeeper at Home , " & c . Cheap Edition , cloth , 6s . English and Irish Land Questions . Collected Essays by the Right Hon . G. SHAW - LEFEVRE , M.P. , First Commissioner ...
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... Wood Magic : A Fable . By RICHARD JEFFERIES , Author of " The Gamekeeper at Home , " & c . Cheap Edition , cloth , 6s . English and Irish Land Questions . Collected Essays by the Right Hon . G. SHAW - LEFEVRE , M.P. , First Commissioner ...
... Wood Magic : A Fable . By RICHARD JEFFERIES , Author of " The Gamekeeper at Home , " & c . Cheap Edition , cloth , 6s . English and Irish Land Questions . Collected Essays by the Right Hon . G. SHAW - LEFEVRE , M.P. , First Commissioner ...
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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.