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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... stations , thus avoiding the usual climb to the top of the hill . Next day we went on to Coblentz , pass- ing by in the morning hundreds of fields , from which the peasants were busy removing beet- root to the THE VOYAGE OUT I.
... stations , thus avoiding the usual climb to the top of the hill . Next day we went on to Coblentz , pass- ing by in the morning hundreds of fields , from which the peasants were busy removing beet- root to the THE VOYAGE OUT I.
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... Station , waiting for the mail train which had started from the harbour half an hour before , on Saturday evening , December 3rd , at 5.30 . It soon became dark , but in the bright moonlight we could see pretty well around . The line ...
... Station , waiting for the mail train which had started from the harbour half an hour before , on Saturday evening , December 3rd , at 5.30 . It soon became dark , but in the bright moonlight we could see pretty well around . The line ...
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... station houses and the dwellings of the better class have all white domes like mosques . During this day and the following morning I saw more wild creatures , four - footed and winged , than I ever saw during the same period in all my ...
... station houses and the dwellings of the better class have all white domes like mosques . During this day and the following morning I saw more wild creatures , four - footed and winged , than I ever saw during the same period in all my ...
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... station , and it was not till day dawned beyond Ajmere that we got a little broken rest . This was our first experience of luxurious railway travelling in India ; many times I tried , Chris- tian - like , to laugh , but it seemed much ...
... station , and it was not till day dawned beyond Ajmere that we got a little broken rest . This was our first experience of luxurious railway travelling in India ; many times I tried , Chris- tian - like , to laugh , but it seemed much ...
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... station . It is a square bungalow in the centre of a compound . There are reed huts for the servants on one side , and on the other tents , in case of an overflow of guests , reminding us of our life in Palestine . Attended by a ...
... station . It is a square bungalow in the centre of a compound . There are reed huts for the servants on one side , and on the other tents , in case of an overflow of guests , reminding us of our life in Palestine . Attended by a ...
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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.