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Our Viceregal Life in India Selections from my Journal 1884-1888

1889

Fancy a drive of five miles through a town : in the first part same wary fine buildings and large houses occasionally an open space or ashort bit of avenue with dine trees and then a long bazaar or native town with curious old houses and strange balconies ; and then the whole—the streets the windows the rows and rows of ballonies the trees the tops of carriages—with a teeming crowd aliost [...] D. stays and walks about for a little while the green parrots and the crows look down upon us from the capitals of the pillars which support the roof of the verandah. [...] When the Maharajah reached the door the Viceroy got up and walked to the middle of the room to meet him shook hands with him and motioned him to a chair on his right White his followers took lower places on the same side. [...] I and we walked the whole afternoon visiting first a temple in the grcunds erected to the 'Memory of the Breve.' It is built in Grecian style and on the walls inside are tablets on which are inscribed the names of the officers who were killed iu an Indian war. [...] As we were in the thick of it with four horses I felt it more prudent to descend from the carriage and the Duchciss walked about with me and wo inspected the killed and wounded who lay in our path and who looked very picturesque and comfortable.
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354
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145716
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Frontmatter
1-10 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view
Chapter I. Arrival in India
1-48 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view
Chapter II. First Season in Clcutta
49-87 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view
Chapter III. Rawal Pindi Durbar and Visit to Lahore
88-132 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view
Chapter IV. Simla During the Ralns
133-191 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view
Chapter V. Autumn Tour 1885: Nahdn Delhi Rajputana Central India Aura and Lucknow
192-274 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view
Chapter VI. Calcutta 1885-1886
275-291 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view
Chapter VII. Burmah and Madras
292-344 Marchioness of Dufferin, Ava view

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