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 16
... drive to the Government House at the furthest point of Malabar Hill , past innumerable bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from ...
... drive to the Government House at the furthest point of Malabar Hill , past innumerable bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from ...
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... drive to the Government House at the furthest point of Malabar Hill , past innumerable bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from ...
... drive to the Government House at the furthest point of Malabar Hill , past innumerable bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from ...
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... drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first experience of riding in a howdah . I thought the motion more un- pleasant , but not so difficult for a tyro , than that of being on the back of a camel . From ...
... drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first experience of riding in a howdah . I thought the motion more un- pleasant , but not so difficult for a tyro , than that of being on the back of a camel . From ...
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... drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first experience of riding in a howdah . I thought the motion more pleasant , but not so difficult for a tyro , than that of being on the back of a camel . un- From ...
... drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first experience of riding in a howdah . I thought the motion more pleasant , but not so difficult for a tyro , than that of being on the back of a camel . un- From ...
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... drive on Friday evening was of a very interesting and almost exciting character . The British Commissioner , Major Young , was good enough to accompany us ; and explain in most graphic language , on the ground , the principal events of ...
... drive on Friday evening was of a very interesting and almost exciting character . The British Commissioner , Major Young , was good enough to accompany us ; and explain in most graphic language , on the ground , the principal events of ...
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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.