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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... class and two second - class return tickets in the P. and O. steamers to India . On the 2nd November , 1881 , our old friend the Wave took us across the Channel ; the Belgians politely passed our baggage at the frontiers without ...
... class and two second - class return tickets in the P. and O. steamers to India . On the 2nd November , 1881 , our old friend the Wave took us across the Channel ; the Belgians politely passed our baggage at the frontiers without ...
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... class have all white domes like mosques . During this day and the following morning I saw more wild creatures , four - footed and winged , than I ever saw during the same period in all my life - deer and monkeys of various sizes and ...
... class have all white domes like mosques . During this day and the following morning I saw more wild creatures , four - footed and winged , than I ever saw during the same period in all my life - deer and monkeys of various sizes and ...
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... classes delight to receive and listen to him . Shortly after 8 o'clock on Thursday morning we were off again on the State railway ; and although the travelling was certainly much smoother than between Ahmedabad and Ajmere , it was by no ...
... classes delight to receive and listen to him . Shortly after 8 o'clock on Thursday morning we were off again on the State railway ; and although the travelling was certainly much smoother than between Ahmedabad and Ajmere , it was by no ...
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... are few and far between , their teaching is shaking to its very centre the whole fabric of heathen mythology . The upper and educated classes have no belief in the gods of their fathers . I find in a hymn - book , composed by Lála.
... are few and far between , their teaching is shaking to its very centre the whole fabric of heathen mythology . The upper and educated classes have no belief in the gods of their fathers . I find in a hymn - book , composed by Lála.
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... over the build- ing . There are ninety - seven students in the English department , each of whom receives two rupees a month from the Government , and 192 THE LAHORE College . 41 in the Oriental classes , 40 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... over the build- ing . There are ninety - seven students in the English department , each of whom receives two rupees a month from the Government , and 192 THE LAHORE College . 41 in the Oriental classes , 40 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.