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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... mountains , " and on the following day passed over an uninteresting plain to Munich , remaining all Sunday in the Hôtel of the Four Seasons . On Monday morning we were provided with a handsome saloon carriage , in which we travelled all ...
... mountains , " and on the following day passed over an uninteresting plain to Munich , remaining all Sunday in the Hôtel of the Four Seasons . On Monday morning we were provided with a handsome saloon carriage , in which we travelled all ...
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... mountains of Albania . Passing Cape Matapan , distinctly visible though thirty miles off , we had run 289 miles at noon , and until we got under the lee of Crete the good ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick for ...
... mountains of Albania . Passing Cape Matapan , distinctly visible though thirty miles off , we had run 289 miles at noon , and until we got under the lee of Crete the good ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick for ...
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... mountains on the African coast . We met six steamers going up to Suez . The ship is full , there being 130 first - class passengers , whose easy - chairs cover the quarter - deck . Passing Shadwan Island , where the P. and O. steamship ...
... mountains on the African coast . We met six steamers going up to Suez . The ship is full , there being 130 first - class passengers , whose easy - chairs cover the quarter - deck . Passing Shadwan Island , where the P. and O. steamship ...
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... mountains in Arabia were visible all Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning . I learned to - day that in the Red Sea on Sunday the thermometer in the stoke - hole was 154 ° . We have several excellent artists on board , and people who ...
... mountains in Arabia were visible all Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning . I learned to - day that in the Red Sea on Sunday the thermometer in the stoke - hole was 154 ° . We have several excellent artists on board , and people who ...
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... mountains are further off . At night there were marriage festivities in the neighbour- hood , music and fireworks , preventing some of the party sleeping until the small hours . On the top of Malabar Hill , and within sight of our ...
... mountains are further off . At night there were marriage festivities in the neighbour- hood , music and fireworks , preventing some of the party sleeping until the small hours . On the top of Malabar Hill , and within sight of our ...
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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.