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 23
... covered with the graceful pampas - grass , which is collected for purposes of thatching . A large party had assembled at the Resi- dency to dinner , consisting chiefly of officers from Bombay , who had come up to enjoy the sport of pig ...
... covered with the graceful pampas - grass , which is collected for purposes of thatching . A large party had assembled at the Resi- dency to dinner , consisting chiefly of officers from Bombay , who had come up to enjoy the sport of pig ...
Page 28
... covered with parroquets , and near which are the comfortable - looking quarters of the married European troops . The officers have elegant and commodious - looking quarters in the centre of the ground , which is tastefully laid out ...
... covered with parroquets , and near which are the comfortable - looking quarters of the married European troops . The officers have elegant and commodious - looking quarters in the centre of the ground , which is tastefully laid out ...
Page 32
... covered with villas and wide avenues , and the Nicholson Gardens , overlooking the Jumna , occupy a con- siderable portion of it . It was bitterly cold when at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning we drove out of the Ajmere Gate over a dusty ...
... covered with villas and wide avenues , and the Nicholson Gardens , overlooking the Jumna , occupy a con- siderable portion of it . It was bitterly cold when at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning we drove out of the Ajmere Gate over a dusty ...
Page 33
... covered , dusty plain . Here , as in many other places , we were mobbed by beggars ; there is , indeed , dire poverty in this land ; the squalor , emaciation and dirt are sometimes appalling . We spent rather a dismal Sunday , two of ...
... covered , dusty plain . Here , as in many other places , we were mobbed by beggars ; there is , indeed , dire poverty in this land ; the squalor , emaciation and dirt are sometimes appalling . We spent rather a dismal Sunday , two of ...
Page 36
... covered entrance- porch , and we had to get out in the dust . Lahore has a population of nearly 100,000 , and the extensive railway works employ 2,000 people . The Bishop ( French ) , formerly a Church missionary , called upon us - an ...
... covered entrance- porch , and we had to get out in the dust . Lahore has a population of nearly 100,000 , and the extensive railway works employ 2,000 people . The Bishop ( French ) , formerly a Church missionary , called upon us - an ...
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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.