Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877Library of Alexandria, 2008 M01 1 |
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... rule, the chronological order, but I have not kept closely to it. When recording the more remote past, the nearer past has been continually coming into view, and the contrast has found expression. Indian names are written as ordinary ...
... rule, the chronological order, but I have not kept closely to it. When recording the more remote past, the nearer past has been continually coming into view, and the contrast has found expression. Indian names are written as ordinary ...
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... rule of our land, and has special claims on our prayers, sympathy, and efforts. I cannot doubt that my Indian friends, both those who have come back to England and those who are still in India, will give a kindly reception to the volume ...
... rule of our land, and has special claims on our prayers, sympathy, and efforts. I cannot doubt that my Indian friends, both those who have come back to England and those who are still in India, will give a kindly reception to the volume ...
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... rule, regarded them with respect, and treated them not only with justice but with kindness. Native servants received as kind treatment as servants do in well-conducted families in our own country, and in many cases repaid this kindness ...
... rule, regarded them with respect, and treated them not only with justice but with kindness. Native servants received as kind treatment as servants do in well-conducted families in our own country, and in many cases repaid this kindness ...
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... rule the hotter and briefer is the hot season. On one occasion the heat was so great in Benares in March that we found the night punkah pleasant; but on reaching Delhi, nearly six hundred miles distant, a few days afterwards, instead of ...
... rule the hotter and briefer is the hot season. On one occasion the heat was so great in Benares in March that we found the night punkah pleasant; but on reaching Delhi, nearly six hundred miles distant, a few days afterwards, instead of ...
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... rule, and the great emporia of Indian as well as of European commerce in the East. These cities under our rule have risen to be among the greatest in Eastern Asia. For many a day the population of Benares was said to be above 500,000 ...
... rule, and the great emporia of Indian as well as of European commerce in the East. These cities under our rule have risen to be among the greatest in Eastern Asia. For many a day the population of Benares was said to be above 500,000 ...
Contents
CHAPTER XVI THE MUTINY OF 185758 | |
CHAPTER XVII THE OUTBREAK AT BENARES | |
CHAPTER XVIII VISIT TO CEYLON AND RETURN TO BENARES | |
CHAPTER XIX VISIT TO CITIES IN THE NORTHWEST AND TO KUMAONVISIT TO ENGLAND AND RETURN TO INDIA | |
CHAPTER XX KUMAON | |
CHAPTER XXI THE ALMORA MISSION | |
CHAPTER XXII RANEE KHET MISSION | |
CHAPTER XXIII HABITS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE MISSION WORK AND RETIREMENT | |
CHAPTER VIII BENARES AS A MISSION SPHERE | |
CHAPTER IX MY SECOND YEAR IN BENARES | |
CHAPTER X THE RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS OF THE HINDUS | |
CHAPTER XI THE OBJECT OF MISSIONS AND VARIOUS MODES OF OPERATION | |
CHAPTER XII SCHOOLS | |
CHAPTER XIII ORPHANAGES | |
CHAPTER XIV MISSION TOURS | |
CHAPTER XV RETURN TO BENARES | |
CHAPTER XXIV THE MISSIONARY IN INDIA | |
CHAPTER XXV THE MISSIONARY IN INDIA Continued | |
CHAPTER XXVI NATIVE CHRISTIANS | |
CHAPTER XXVII NATIVE CHRISTIANS Continued | |
CHAPTER XXVIII THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM WE LABOUR | |
CHAPTER XXIX THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM WE LABOUR Continued | |
CHAPTER XXX EUROPEANS IN INDIA | |
CHAPTER XXXI THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA | |
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