Category: History - British
There are two different classes of people who know very little about India. First there is your old Indian, who fancies that he knows all about the presidency, say Bombay, in which he spent his time, but is as ignorant of the presidencies of Bengal and Madras as he is of China...
There are two different classes of people who know very little about India. First there is your old Indian, who fancies that he knows all about the presidency, say Bombay, in wh...
2. CHAPTER II.In the Indian hierarchy H.E. the Commander-in-Chief of India comes next in rank and position to H.E. the Viceroy and Governor-General. But although to all military men “the Chie...
3. CHAPTER III.Hitherto we have written of “kings and tetrarchs and all great things” in India. Now let us go to a different degree in the social scale, to those who were alluded to as the rea...
4. CHAPTER IV.Lord Ellenborough, once Governor-General of India, and formerly President of the Board of Control, records in his political diary how the Duke of Wellington always mentioned in...
5. CHAPTER V.Those who have seen Tom Taylor’s play, “The Overland Route” at the Haymarket Theatre, have probably been amused at the representation of the old civilians Sir Solomon Fraser, K....
6. CHAPTER VI.There are some people who seem to think that in writing about social life in India, the first place should be given to a consideration of the natives of the land. But we say it...
7. PART I.—The East Indies, and Interjacent Ports of Africa and SouthAmerica. Revised, Extended, and Illustrated with Charts of Winds, Currents, Passages, Variation, and Tides. By COMMANDER ALFRED DUNDAS TAYLOR, F.R.G.S., Superintendent of Marine...
8. PART II.—The China Sea, with the Ports of Java, Australia and JapanMahommedan Law of Inheritance, &c. A Manual of the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance and Contract; comprising the Doctrine of the Soonee and Sheea Schools, and based upon the text o...