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 22
... called on the Resident in his beautiful villa in the neighbourhood , and then drove through the extraordinary town of Jeypoor - a mixture of Orientalism and European innovation hard to describe . There are broad streets ; houses ...
... called on the Resident in his beautiful villa in the neighbourhood , and then drove through the extraordinary town of Jeypoor - a mixture of Orientalism and European innovation hard to describe . There are broad streets ; houses ...
Page 36
... formerly a Church missionary , called upon us - an earnest , liberal- minded man , highly respected in northern India . Here let me say that nothing so much im- DISSENSIONS IN THE CHURCH . 37 pedes the progress of 36 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... formerly a Church missionary , called upon us - an earnest , liberal- minded man , highly respected in northern India . Here let me say that nothing so much im- DISSENSIONS IN THE CHURCH . 37 pedes the progress of 36 A WINTER IN INDIA .
Page 50
... called Bhund- Darwaza , occupy a lofty eminence on a great plain . The gateway of the latter is probably the finest in India , and rises 130 feet above the plateau ; the quadrangle is 433 by 336 feet , and inside of it there is a fairy ...
... called Bhund- Darwaza , occupy a lofty eminence on a great plain . The gateway of the latter is probably the finest in India , and rises 130 feet above the plateau ; the quadrangle is 433 by 336 feet , and inside of it there is a fairy ...
Page 54
... called upon me in the morning ; Dr. Valentine , the respected medical missionary , whom I have now seen twice , hails from Brechin ; Mr. Weir , the banker from whom I got my money , told me that his father was a clergyman in Arbroath ...
... called upon me in the morning ; Dr. Valentine , the respected medical missionary , whom I have now seen twice , hails from Brechin ; Mr. Weir , the banker from whom I got my money , told me that his father was a clergyman in Arbroath ...
Page 60
... , and seemed to rivet the attention of the audience ; and I was unexpectedly called upon to make a speech in the centre of India , just a month after I had THE INDIAN POLICE . 61 landed on its shores . 60 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... , and seemed to rivet the attention of the audience ; and I was unexpectedly called upon to make a speech in the centre of India , just a month after I had THE INDIAN POLICE . 61 landed on its shores . 60 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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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.