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The _Life of Dalhousie_ dealt with the last accessions made to the British dominions in India under the East India Company. The present volume exhibits a memorable stage in the process by which those dominions, old and new, were welded together into the India of the Queen.
Richard Southwell Bourke, sixth Earl of Mayo, was born in Dublin on the 21st of February, 1822. He came of a lineage not unknown throughout the seven centuries of unrest, which...
6. CHAPTER VIThe financial history of Lord Mayo's Viceroyalty divides itself into two parts. The first narrates the resolute stand which, at the outset of his administration, he found himsel...
4. CHAPTER IVThe India of which Lord Mayo assumed charge in 1869 was a profoundly different India from that which had, eleven years previously, passed from the Company to the Crown. The fixe...
9. CHAPTER IXOne branch of the internal administration in which Lord Mayo took a deep interest was prison discipline. The subject had come prominently before him when Secretary for Ireland,...
3. CHAPTER IIILord Mayo took his oaths as Viceroy on the 12th January, 1869. The same evening he set to work with characteristic promptitude to learn from his predecessor what personal duties...
5. CHAPTER VWhen Lord Mayo entered on his Viceroyalty, three Asiatic States were in disorder beyond the North-Western Frontier, and two great Powers were stealthily but steadily advancing t...
8. CHAPTER VIIIThe Mughal Government in its best days was a peripatetic one. Its camp was its capital, and the abandonment of that method marked the commencement of the false system of central...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe Mutiny of 1857 left on the hands of the Government of India two great armies--a vast shattered wreck of Native Troops, and a European Force, fewer in numbers, but admirably...
1. CHAPTER IThe _Life of Dalhousie_ dealt with the last accessions made to the British dominions in India under the East India Company. The present volume exhibits a memorable stage in the...