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 89
... interests are considered by the masses of the cultivators to be antagonistic to their own ; so much so indeed that the latter are accustomed to look in preference to Europeans for justice . G CHAPTER VIII . THE TEA - PLANTATIONS ...
... interests are considered by the masses of the cultivators to be antagonistic to their own ; so much so indeed that the latter are accustomed to look in preference to Europeans for justice . G CHAPTER VIII . THE TEA - PLANTATIONS ...
Page 123
... interest me much . The park is full of deer , and also of jackals . We drove about until we could no longer see on the evening of our arrival ; and there was a large dinner - party , attended , amongst others , by the Maharajah of ...
... interest me much . The park is full of deer , and also of jackals . We drove about until we could no longer see on the evening of our arrival ; and there was a large dinner - party , attended , amongst others , by the Maharajah of ...
Page 143
... interest in opium ; and no one I imagine would , if such a mode of raising revenue were proposed as a new measure , care to defend it ; but it is very questionable if China would be morally bene- fited by a change of system which might ...
... interest in opium ; and no one I imagine would , if such a mode of raising revenue were proposed as a new measure , care to defend it ; but it is very questionable if China would be morally bene- fited by a change of system which might ...
Page 148
... your adhesion to liberal principles , and you have been one of that small band of Englishmen who have always evinced an interest in Indian matters . NATIVE ADdress . 149 Since the days of the Mutiny 148 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... your adhesion to liberal principles , and you have been one of that small band of Englishmen who have always evinced an interest in Indian matters . NATIVE ADdress . 149 Since the days of the Mutiny 148 A WINTER IN INDIA .
Page 149
... interest themselves as intimately as if they were purely English questions . Under these circumstances it becomes the duty of those who have India's welfare at heart to supply from time to time , as occasion arises , correct information ...
... interest themselves as intimately as if they were purely English questions . Under these circumstances it becomes the duty of those who have India's welfare at heart to supply from time to time , as occasion arises , correct information ...
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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.