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In India

1899

Under the quaint wooden sun - hoods that push out over the serried windows of the lodging-houses along the rickety pointless balconies and verandahs all over the tottering roofs—only the shabbiness of thedust dirty plaster relieves the gorgeousness of one of the most astounding colVetions of human animals in the world. [...] To them to the Bagdad-Jewish Sassoons and—last but after all essential to the prosperity of the others—to the British Government Bombay owes the stately public buildings the spacious open places that give her the grand air above almost every city of the West. [...] Then think of the factory smoke the numbeless bales of cotton the hives of coolies the panting steamers in the harbour the grim-eyed batteries and the white warships. [...] State affairs are not neglected but the cavalry and the polo the racing and the pig-sticking remain the serious business of life. [...] Its flawless order was a joy to see—the unswerving straight lines of the roads the exact set of the teats with the occupant's name on each and his servants' tent behind the abundance of fodder in the horse-lines the spreading officand mess-tents.
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Pages
406
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144113
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Prefatory Note
i-viii G.W. Steevens view
I. A Viceroy’s Welcome
1-5 G.W. Steevens view
II. Bombay
6-15 G.W. Steevens view
III. Lord Have Mercy on us
16-24 G.W. Steevens view
IV. The Most Sporting Country in the World
25-32 G.W. Steevens view
V. A Rajput City
33-40 G.W. Steevens view
VI. The Camp of Exercise
41-56 G.W. Steevens view
VII. Delhi
57-65 G.W. Steevens view
VIII. Calcutta
66-76 G.W. Steevens view
IX. On Native Self-Goverment
77-91 G.W. Steevens view
X. The Higher Education
92-101 G.W. Steevens view
XI. The Maharajah Bahadur
102-111 G.W. Steevens view
XII. Darjling
112-120 G.W. Steevens view
XIII. The Villagers
121-132 G.W. Steevens view
XIV. The City of Shah Jehan
133-143 G.W. Steevens view
XV. The Rulers of India
144-150 G.W. Steevens view
XVI. The District Officer
151-161 G.W. Steevens view
XVII. Justice
162-169 G.W. Steevens view
XVIII. Providence and the Parlour Game
170-177 G.W. Steevens view
XIX. The Forest Officer
178-186 G.W. Steevens view
XX. The Canal
187-195 G.W. Steevens view
XX. The Shrine of the Sikhs
196-204 G.W. Steevens view
XXII. On the Border
205-214 G.W. Steevens view
XXIII. The Khyber
215-223 G.W. Steevens view
XXIV. The Malakand
224-232 G.W. Steevens view
XXV. The Frontier Question
233-241 G.W. Steevens view
XXVI. of Rajahs
242-250 G.W. Steevens view
XXVII. The Complete Globe-Trotter
251-259 G.W. Steevens view
XXVIII. The Happy Homes of India
260-268 G.W. Steevens view
XXIX. The Case of Rebellious Poona
269-278 G.W. Steevens view
XXX. The Jail
279-287 G.W. Steevens view
XXXI. Hyderabad Dekhan
288-296 G.W. Steevens view
XXXII. Madras
297-305 G.W. Steevens view
XXXIII. The Salt-Pans
306-313 G.W. Steevens view
XXXIV. The Great Pagodas
314-320 G.W. Steevens view
XXXV. The Rupee
321-333 G.W. Steevens view
XXXVI. The Army and Mutiny
334-342 G.W. Steevens view
XXXVII. The Imperial Babu
343-350 G.W. Steevens view
XXXVIII. The Land of Ironies
351-i G.W. Steevens view
Index
361-365 G.W. Steevens view
Backmatter
i-30 G.W. Steevens view

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