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
... bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from home . CREMATION IN INDIA . 17 We dined in one of 16 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from home . CREMATION IN INDIA . 17 We dined in one of 16 A WINTER IN INDIA .
Page 15
... flowers . The houses are bungalows , and the manners and customs of the strangely- attired , or rather non - attired , natives strongly impress on us that our time is six hours earlier than that of Greenwich . I was not prepared for the ...
... flowers . The houses are bungalows , and the manners and customs of the strangely- attired , or rather non - attired , natives strongly impress on us that our time is six hours earlier than that of Greenwich . I was not prepared for the ...
Page 16
... bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from home . CREMATION IN INDIA . 17 We dined in one of 16 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... bungalows of merchants and officials - Scotch names greatly predominating— the strange trees and flowers reminding one forcibly how far he is from home . CREMATION IN INDIA . 17 We dined in one of 16 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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... flowers , and all the short time we have been in India we have been struck everywhere with the good roads . Our friends at home have little idea how far behind they are in this respect , some of our leading lines of communi- cation ...
... flowers , and all the short time we have been in India we have been struck everywhere with the good roads . Our friends at home have little idea how far behind they are in this respect , some of our leading lines of communi- cation ...
Page 47
... flowers carved on the walls , and a few tastefully- coloured mosaics : no tawdry images or orna- ments disfigure the place . How suitable for the worship of Jehovah ! The largest mosque in Agra - the Jumma Musjid is so close as almost ...
... flowers carved on the walls , and a few tastefully- coloured mosaics : no tawdry images or orna- ments disfigure the place . How suitable for the worship of Jehovah ! The largest mosque in Agra - the Jumma Musjid is so close as almost ...
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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.