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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... Four Seasons . On Monday morning we were provided with a handsome saloon carriage , in which we travelled all the way to Venice . In some parts of the THROUGH THE TYROL . 3 Bavarian plain the peasants were 2 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... Four Seasons . On Monday morning we were provided with a handsome saloon carriage , in which we travelled all the way to Venice . In some parts of the THROUGH THE TYROL . 3 Bavarian plain the peasants were 2 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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... four hours at Verona , to get luncheon and see the place , and it was very late before we reached the City of the Waters , as a locomotive had broken down at Peschiera , detaining the train from Milan . How bright and beautiful is ...
... four hours at Verona , to get luncheon and see the place , and it was very late before we reached the City of the Waters , as a locomotive had broken down at Peschiera , detaining the train from Milan . How bright and beautiful is ...
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... Crete the good ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick for four or five hours . Wednesday was a lovely day , and when I reached the deck at sunrise on Thursday , in the lurid light on the eastern horizon there could be.
... Crete the good ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick for four or five hours . Wednesday was a lovely day , and when I reached the deck at sunrise on Thursday , in the lurid light on the eastern horizon there could be.
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... long and so foolishly opposed . The rascals charged us four shillings each for a very so - so lunch at Kafr Zayad , and we were not sorry when the hot and dusty journey TO SUEZ By Rail . 7 terminated at Suez at 6 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... long and so foolishly opposed . The rascals charged us four shillings each for a very so - so lunch at Kafr Zayad , and we were not sorry when the hot and dusty journey TO SUEZ By Rail . 7 terminated at Suez at 6 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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... four - footed and winged , than I ever saw during the same period in all my life - deer and monkeys of various sizes and kinds , cockatoos innumerable , blue jays , flamin- goes , storks of the most graceful appearance , partridges ...
... four - footed and winged , than I ever saw during the same period in all my life - deer and monkeys of various sizes and kinds , cockatoos innumerable , blue jays , flamin- goes , storks of the most graceful appearance , partridges ...
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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.