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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... BUILDINGS , TRADE , AND LIFE 106 X. - SOUTHERN INDIA : MADRAS ; COONOOR 117 XI . CONJEVERAM : DEPARTURE FROM MADRAS 130 XII . AT POONA . 139 XIII . RETURN TO BOMBAY . 158 XIV . DEPARTURE FROM BOMBAY XV . - ON THE INDIAN OCEAN XVI . THE ...
... BUILDINGS , TRADE , AND LIFE 106 X. - SOUTHERN INDIA : MADRAS ; COONOOR 117 XI . CONJEVERAM : DEPARTURE FROM MADRAS 130 XII . AT POONA . 139 XIII . RETURN TO BOMBAY . 158 XIV . DEPARTURE FROM BOMBAY XV . - ON THE INDIAN OCEAN XVI . THE ...
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... buildings , the bays and creeks , the peaked and dome - shaped Ghauts ; it has a resemblance to the Bay of Naples , but there is more variety , and the mountains are further off . At night there were marriage festivities in the ...
... buildings , the bays and creeks , the peaked and dome - shaped Ghauts ; it has a resemblance to the Bay of Naples , but there is more variety , and the mountains are further off . At night there were marriage festivities in the ...
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... is impossible to convey in a few sentences of description anything like a vivid idea of this strange Bombay . The mixture of splendid public buildings and hovels , sumptuous bunga- lows cheek - by - jowl with wigwams , carriages.
... is impossible to convey in a few sentences of description anything like a vivid idea of this strange Bombay . The mixture of splendid public buildings and hovels , sumptuous bunga- lows cheek - by - jowl with wigwams , carriages.
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... 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 Lahore Gate , where there is a row of native ...
... 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 Lahore Gate , where there is a row of native ...
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... building in 1857 assembled 40,000 men to pray for success to the rebel armies , and there on Friday , 9th December , 1881 , we saw two or three thousand Mussulman worshippers bowing in the direction of Mecca : not south - east , as we ...
... building in 1857 assembled 40,000 men to pray for success to the rebel armies , and there on Friday , 9th December , 1881 , we saw two or three thousand Mussulman worshippers bowing in the direction of Mecca : not south - east , as we ...
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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.