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The Calcutta Review January 1898

1898

Having fully explained the measures he would have the local authorities adopt to prevent the introduction of the pestilence into the interior he calls the attention of the authorities to the steps which would be necessary in case the disease notwithstanding the preventive cordon were to insinuate itself into any of the towns and villages there. [...] The Reforms of Calcutta said : " The more we read of the disease now raging in Rajputana the more we become convinced of the impracticability nay the injurious tendency of some of the measures prescribed by Sir Chaile-; Metcalfe for checking the evil. [...] The old Bombay Gazette calls it the severest gale that has visited Bombay within the memory of man.' No language can describe the scene pf desolation the harbour presented about 2 P. M. when the gale abated a little : the bay was strewn with bales of cotton and parts of the wrecks of boats and ships ; in the Back Bay the dead were washed out of their graves and floated about the shore ; the roof [...] The Agra Ukhbar severely commented on the attitude of the leading Mahomedans : " The principal Mussulmans appeared ostensibly in the characters of peace-makers and the controllers of the ruffian mob of the city. [...] This is not the language of an alarmist ; it is prompted by the contemplation of our proceedings in India and by authentic information from the natives themselves of the sentiments which they entertain : it is the language also of five out of six of the Company's servants who have recently returned from India—of men who have used the opportunities which they enjoyed of observing the signs of the
history
Pages
215
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
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Frontmatter
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Art I 1837 and 1897 Two Years of Calamities
3-20 R.P. Karkaria view
Art II—Indian Bamboos
21-37 C.W. Hope view
Art III—India Before the English
38-50 unknown view
Art IV—A Bengali Robin Hood
51-62 Sarat Mitra view
Art V—A Gold Standard for India
63-70 unknown view
Art VI—England and Russia
71-78 unknown view
Art VII—The Diary of Govinda Das
79-96 unknown view
Art VIII—Public Worship
97-100 H.G. Keene view
Art IX—Vedic India
101-134 unknown view
Art X—The Tree-Daubing of 1894 a Study
135-143 Civilian view
Art XI—The Origin of the Tfghans
144-156 T.C.L. view
Art XII—A Curiosity of Literature
157-159 H.G. Keene view
Art XIII—Notes from the Calcutta Zoolo-Gical Gardens
160-174 Sarat Mitra view
Art XIV—Humayun in Persia
175-191 unknown view
Correspondence
192-192 unknown view
The Quarter
193-203 unknown view
Critical Notices
i-x unknown view
Acknowledgments
i-i unknown view

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