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 2
... look at the cathedral , the towers of which are now com- pleted . The Hôtel Belle Vue , at Coblentz , commands a fine view of Ehrenbreitstein and the drawbridge across the Rhine , the latter crowded with passengers and vehicles , and ...
... look at the cathedral , the towers of which are now com- pleted . The Hôtel Belle Vue , at Coblentz , commands a fine view of Ehrenbreitstein and the drawbridge across the Rhine , the latter crowded with passengers and vehicles , and ...
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... look out of my port- hole , and there , in all its glory , just above the horizon , was the Southern Cross and certainly my feeling on seeing it for the first time was by no means one of disappointment . Between 6 and 7 o'clock I went ...
... look out of my port- hole , and there , in all its glory , just above the horizon , was the Southern Cross and certainly my feeling on seeing it for the first time was by no means one of disappointment . Between 6 and 7 o'clock I went ...
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... look - out posts , sometimes on a frame- work , sometimes on a tree , here and there , with watchers to prevent the deer , boars , monkeys , and other wild animals damaging the crops . The station houses and the dwellings of the better ...
... look - out posts , sometimes on a frame- work , sometimes on a tree , here and there , with watchers to prevent the deer , boars , monkeys , and other wild animals damaging the crops . The station houses and the dwellings of the better ...
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... , in the centre of the city . These Punjaubees are a far finer and more stalwart race than the Hindoos , and some of the regiments in our service look very well indeed . CHAPTER IV . AGRA AND THE TAJ MAHAL . WE 42 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... , in the centre of the city . These Punjaubees are a far finer and more stalwart race than the Hindoos , and some of the regiments in our service look very well indeed . CHAPTER IV . AGRA AND THE TAJ MAHAL . WE 42 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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... look far better in photographs than in the reality ; just think of these yellow and pink coloured arches of plaster and paint after the glorious Taj ! " ' Tis distance lends enchantment to the view . " I get away from them E 2.
... look far better in photographs than in the reality ; just think of these yellow and pink coloured arches of plaster and paint after the glorious Taj ! " ' Tis distance lends enchantment to the view . " I get away from them E 2.
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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.