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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... house officers , " dressed in a little brief authority , " made themselves so un- pleasant in rummaging our valises that I con- sidered it my duty to write in the evening to the proper quarter complaining of their conduct . At Cologne ...
... house officers , " dressed in a little brief authority , " made themselves so un- pleasant in rummaging our valises that I con- sidered it my duty to write in the evening to the proper quarter complaining of their conduct . At Cologne ...
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William Edward Baxter. deck was Sir A. H. Layard , who has a house in Venice , and who was seeing off another old friend of mine , Sir W. Gregory , formerly Mem- ber for Galway , and more recently Governor of Ceylon . We had likewise on ...
William Edward Baxter. deck was Sir A. H. Layard , who has a house in Venice , and who was seeing off another old friend of mine , Sir W. Gregory , formerly Mem- ber for Galway , and more recently Governor of Ceylon . We had likewise on ...
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... house was to be seen . On Monday the Surat had a very unusual experience : namely , a strong head - wind , a tem- pestuous sea , and 96 ° of heat in the shade . Most people were motionless , and looked very miserable . The ports had all ...
... house was to be seen . On Monday the Surat had a very unusual experience : namely , a strong head - wind , a tem- pestuous sea , and 96 ° of heat in the shade . Most people were motionless , and looked very miserable . The ports had all ...
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... houses present a singular appearance , and it is a much more imposing place than I had imagined . We lay there till nearly 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning , and might have gone ashore , but a placard announcing that the ship was to sail ...
... houses present a singular appearance , and it is a much more imposing place than I had imagined . We lay there till nearly 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning , and might have gone ashore , but a placard announcing that the ship was to sail ...
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... house and counting - house , moving noiselessly about like shadows , impress a European . It is a very pretty drive to the Government House at the furthest point of Malabar Hill , past innumerable bungalows of merchants and officials ...
... house and counting - house , moving noiselessly about like shadows , impress a European . It is a very pretty drive to the Government House at the furthest point of Malabar Hill , past innumerable bungalows of merchants and officials ...
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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.