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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

1893

I asked a native gentleman of the plains in the valley of the Nerbudda one clay what made the people of the woods to the north and south more disposed to speak the truth than those more civilized of the valley itself. [...] The prince flatters the self-love of his army and his people ; the robber flatters that of his gang and his village the question is only in degree ; the persons whose self-love is flattered are blind to the injustice and cruelty of the attack--the prince is the idol of a people the robber the idol of a gang. [...] IV p. 541.) "It was the custom that when the triumphant conqueror turned his chariot towards the Capitol he commanded the captives to be led to prison and there put to death that lb the glory"VERACITY 33 of the victor and the miseries of the vanquished might be in the same moment at the utmost. [...] Aen advocate the use of the ballot in elections that the weak may defend themselves and the free institutions of the country by dissimulation against the strong who would oppress them.' The circumstances under which falsehood and insincerity are tolerated by the community in the best societies of modern days are very numerous ; and the worst society of modern clays in the civilized world when [...] In the same manner the room or libertine of rank may often be guilty of all manner of falsehoods and crimes to the females of the class below him without any fern of incurring the odium of either nudes or females of his own circle ; on the contrary the more crimes he commis of this sort the more sometimes he may expect to be caressed by males and females of his own order.
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Pages
374
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142124
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v W.H. Sleeman view
Chapter I Govardhan the Scene of Krishna’s Dalliance with the Milk. maids
1-15 unknown view
Chapter II Veracity
16-47 unknown view
Chapter III Declining Fertility of the Soil—Popular Notion of the Cause
48-58 unknown view
Chapter IV Concentration of Capital and Its Effects
59-66 unknown view
Chapter V Transit Duties in India—Mode of Collecting them
67-72 unknown view
Chapter VI Peasantry of India attached to no existing Government—Want of Trees in Upper India—Cause and Consequence—Wells and Groves
73-85 unknown view
Chapter VII Public Spirit of the Hindoos—Tree Cultivation and Suggestions for extending
86-97 unknown view
Chapter VIII Cities and Towns formed by Public Establishments disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their Abodes
98-105 unknown view
Chapter IX Murder of Mr. Fraser and Execution of the Nawab Shams-uddin
106-125 unknown view
Chapter X Marriage of a Jat Chief
126-130 unknown view
Chapter XI Collegiate Endowment of Muhammadan Tombs and Mosques
131-138 unknown view
Chapter XII The Old City of Delhi
139-160 unknown view
Chapter XIII New Delhi Or Shahjahanabad
161-206 unknown view
Chapter XIV Indian Police—Its Defects—and their Cause and Remedy
207-226 unknown view
Chapter XV Rent-free Tenures—Right of Government to Resume such Grants
227-233 unknown view
Chapter XVI the Station or Meerut—”Atalis” who Dance and Sing gratuitously for the Benefit of the Poor
234-238 unknown view
Chapter XVII Subdivisions of Lands—Want of Gradations of Rank—Taxes
239-247 unknown view
Chapter XVIII Meerut—Angle-Indian Society
248-258 unknown view
Chapter XIX Pilgrims of India
259-266 unknown view
Chapter XX the Begam Sumroo
267-289 unknown view
Chapter XXI on the Spirit of Military Discipline in the Native Army of India
290-323 unknown view
Chapter XXII Invalid Establishment
324-i unknown view
Index
337-368 unknown view

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