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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... beautiful is Venice , and what a contrast between its stirring appearance now and the dead city under Austrian domination which I knew in 1844 ! At 10 a.m. on 11th November we went on board the P. and O. steamer Mongolia , Captain ...
... beautiful is Venice , and what a contrast between its stirring appearance now and the dead city under Austrian domination which I knew in 1844 ! At 10 a.m. on 11th November we went on board the P. and O. steamer Mongolia , Captain ...
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... beautiful of their kind as the varied views of Venice from the sea . By nightfall we were off Ancona , burning blue lights on the port bow ; and so calm was the sometimes stormy gulf that by I a.m. on Sunday we were standing in and out ...
... beautiful of their kind as the varied views of Venice from the sea . By nightfall we were off Ancona , burning blue lights on the port bow ; and so calm was the sometimes stormy gulf that by I a.m. on Sunday we were standing in and out ...
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... beautiful villa in the neighbourhood , and then drove through the extraordinary town of Jeypoor - a mixture of Orientalism and European innovation hard to describe . There are broad streets ; houses , higher than usual , all painted ...
... beautiful villa in the neighbourhood , and then drove through the extraordinary town of Jeypoor - a mixture of Orientalism and European innovation hard to describe . There are broad streets ; houses , higher than usual , all painted ...
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... Maharajah . Several successive rulers of Jeypoor have been enlightened , reforming men . The beautiful Mayo hospital , the water - supply to the town , THE RAJPOOTANA MISSION . 25 and the irrigation works in 24 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... Maharajah . Several successive rulers of Jeypoor have been enlightened , reforming men . The beautiful Mayo hospital , the water - supply to the town , THE RAJPOOTANA MISSION . 25 and the irrigation works in 24 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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... Maharajah . Several successive rulers of Jeypoor have been enlightened , reforming men . The beautiful Mayo hospital , the water - supply to the town , THE RAJPOOTANA MISSION . 25 and the irrigation works in 24 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... Maharajah . Several successive rulers of Jeypoor have been enlightened , reforming men . The beautiful Mayo hospital , the water - supply to the town , THE RAJPOOTANA MISSION . 25 and the irrigation works in 24 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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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.