POLITICAL
Consequences do not appeal as a subject of interest to the typical
British mind until they have arrived. But when, as was the case in
our acquisition of India, a heedlessness of consequences is
accompanied by ignorance of the future development of his own
government into a democratic tyranny, the extension of free
institutions by a conqueror to a subject race becomes fraught with
aggravated dangers. These are now upon us and we have to steer
between a panic withdrawal of liberties and an equally rash programme
in their too rapid extension.
The more we can help India to become a nation, the more we can knit
her together by conscious bonds of common needs and aspirations the
better it will be for her and the better, therefore, for ourselves
now that we can no longer tolerate with equanimity an exploitation of
a subject race solely for our own commercial advantage.
That East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
is one of the worst superstitions prevalent among British people.
Let those who so glibly reiterate what I believe {345} to be a
falsehood pernicious in its tendency to preserve a bigoted
exclusiveness, compare India not with the West of to-day but with
ancient and mediæval Europe.
The anchorite in a cage at some street corner, mendicant friars and
pilgrims with their bowls, flagellants and the innumerable sects that
seek to honour God by scorning his gifts, altars made red with the
blood of sacrifice, the tight-rope walker and the ballad man,
religious pageantry and the pomp of kings, the calm aloofness of
sequestered lives, the careless luxury of courts, the squalid
existence of a servile peasantry, the sordid rookeries of each
reeking town, unchecked disease and callous cruelty, the taciturn
denial of every new discovery, and brooding superstition over
all--the counterpart of nearly every phase of life, so often
considered as typically Oriental--surely existed in past ages between
Rome and Bristol.
It needs no conscious pharisaism for men of both authority and
learning to contrast the ideals of modern industry unfavourably with
those of renunciation and quietism and to call the one new and the
other old; but this is only another way of saying that authority and
learning are not always denied even to sentimentalists though they be
without hope and see the world with but a single eye.
Oh, wondrous dreamings of a golden age that {346} never was under the
light of the sun! Were the people of India under Akhbar or Asoka
better in any one respect than they are to-day? The wanderings of
ascetic Sadhus and Yogis have probably worked towards the cementing
of the country, and their spirit of detachment has at the same time
helped to withdraw attention from the yoke of foreign rule.
It has been shown in the history of modern India that at a time of
mutiny and under the excitement of anger at inhuman butchery, one of
our bravest and (in his own profession of soldiering) most capable of
men may have his ideas of civilization so far distorted as to plead
for a return to methods of the most extreme savagery in the treatment
of prisoners; but it has not been shown that any Englishman of
recognized capability to-day has such a distorted view that he looks
upon India as a permanent goose to be kept sufficiently nourished to
lay golden eggs for the benefit of his own country. To whatever
party he may belong, every Englishman in England, who studies Indian
affairs and the relation of India to the rest of our Empire, feels
that our rule should be so conducted as to prepare India for ultimate
self-government and a place in the future councils of a British
confederation among the other units of the Empire.
The growth of a national spirit in India under our self-appointed
guardianship, while giving {347} us just pride in the nobility of our
achievement, may yield us the yet nobler crown of humility when we
behold in its maturity the developed genius of our foster-children.
Mr Theodore Morison, writing on _Imperial Rule in India_, sought
authority for his proposed suppression of all newspapers but a
subsidized government organ in "the policy which has done so much for
the progress of Mexico," and remarked, "It is apparently necessary
for English politicians to behold a country given up to anarchy
before they can realize that popular institutions make for the
disruption of a nation which is not yet compact and unified."
The recent happenings in his chosen instance incline me to say that
even Mr Morison himself would now, doubtless, admit that such
despotic methods only produce an apparent and temporary calm and are
certain sooner or later to break down, together with the government
that enforced them.
The influence of the Press is only beginning to help the creation of
a national spirit. Newspapers are naturally more likely to fan the
red embers of latent animosities than to attack the infinitely more
difficult and less lucrative task of sound patriotic afforestation to
make a permanent fuel supply to those fires of national aspiration,
which as yet have little more hold than a handful of crackling thorns.
{348}
It is as erroneous to assume that local press opposition to any
particular measure of government is the sign of an united national
feeling as to pretend that an united national feeling can only be
created by agitation against the British rule.
The fact that there is not yet a national sympathy in India strong
enough to overrule the enmity of religions or the rivalry of races,
is the best of all arguments for cherishing its growth by every means
in our power. National feeling must first be associated with
territorial boundaries and many many will be the years to come ere
the Mohammedan will lie down with the Hindoo and a little Parsee
shall lead them to the sound of Sikh flutes and Christian tabors!
Mr Theodore Morison contends that all men east of Suez think
themselves the slaves and chattels of the man God has set above them
for their king,[1] but in whatever way they regard their relation to
their rulers we, at least, may no longer regard them as slaves and
chattels; rather must we think of them as wards for whom we have
become responsible through the actions {349} of our
grandfathers--wards whom we have not only recognized as family
relations but have trained in our own business and given just so much
knowledge of our methods as to make them capable of being invaluable
to our rivals though not as yet in any way competent to exercise
independent authority.
[1] "East of Suez ... there lies upon the eyes and foreheads of all
men a law which is not found in the European Decalogue; and this law
runs: 'Thou shalt honour and worship the man whom God shall set above
thee for thy king; if he cherish thee thou shalt love him; and if he
plunder and oppress thee thou shalt still love him, for thou art his
slave and his chattel.'" _Imperial Rule in India_ (Page 43).
Theodore Morison.
There must come a time when the people of every habitable part of the
world will have tried the system of government by majority of elected
representatives. Even in the case of a nation like China, which has
at present no desire among its proportionally small class of educated
minds for such a form of rule, the popular longing for
enfranchisement will arise, and sooner or later a representative form
of government will be established. The obviously possible oppression
and tyranny of democratic rule are dangers which no people as a whole
will learn except by their own experience. The stirring spirit of
life that brings man self-reliance will make him claim his share in
the ordering of his own country sooner or later but in any case
sooner than he has been able to learn that a measure is liberal or
tyrannous, not according to the type of government that imposes it
but according to the degree of liberty it secures to, or takes away
from, the individuals it affects.
How many Englishmen who have ever given a thought to India have
imagined themselves {350} for a moment as natives of that land? Try
to put yourself in the place of any native-born Indian and consider
fairly what your thought would be about politics or government. If
you were a ryot, an uneducated villager, you would know nothing of
such matters. For you, all life and its affairs would be in the
hands of the gods and the money-lender, and endeavours to assuage
their wrath or cruelty, to induce their patronage or favour, would
exhaust whatever surplus energy remained from daily rounds of toil.
But put yourself for a moment in the place of the young Mohammedan
who has just left his university and is trying to obtain a berth in
the post-office, or of a Hindoo medical assistant in the hospital of
a country town, or of a large native landowner who has just left
college and succeeded to an estate in Bengal, or of a native pleader
in the courts, or of a native assistant magistrate--would you then be
quite indifferent to questions of government and politics? You would
feel conscious that you were being ruled by strangers whose
superiority, in whatever respects you deemed them superior, was the
most galling thing about them--far more so than their habitual
disclination to have more touch with you than was necessary to the
efficient discharge of their official duties. Among the very few you
ever met, after leaving college, one Englishman {351} might seem to
you lovable; but would that reconcile you to the fact that his race
was ruling yours, dividing its territories in the teeth of the
protest of their powerless inhabitants, and, as you gathered from
your reading, denying you rights of self-government which his own
people years ago had risen in arms to obtain?
But in order to give India the chance of future autonomy and
independence, we must distinguish between the extreme claims of
isolated and non-representative enthusiasts and the reasonable
progressive changes warranted by a gradual advance of liberal
education and increase of religious tolerance: we must distinguish
between the exuberance of inexperienced youths and the irritation of
dissatisfied place-hunters on the one hand and the mature opinions on
the other hand of enlightened Indians who have proved their power of
wise judgment by years of serious responsibility in positions of
trust and authority. And first and last, we must never forget, in
our continued efforts to make a nation out of a tangle of many states
and peoples, the tremendous power we have gradually gained to
influence the general liberty and progress of the world, and that no
part of that power can ever be yielded up save as the shameful
shifting of a burden it is our noblest privilege to bear.
THE END
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INDEX
ABORNIA, 129
Abu, Mount, 303, 306
Abu Road, 305, 306
Afghan, 231, 233, 234, 284
Afghanistan, 240, 278, 283
Afridi, 236, 240, 242, 244, 248
Aghoris, 203
Agra, 183, 184, 191, 193, 197, 320, 327
Ahmadabad, 309
Ahmednagar, 314, 316
Aindaw Pagoda, 74
Ajmere, 303-305
Akal Bunga, 220, 224
Akali, 272, 273, 274, 276
Akhbar, 181, 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 193, 194, 197, 257, 261, 300,
304, 346
Alexander, 89
Ali Masjid, 239, 242, 243, 244, 246, 250
Aligar College, 228
Allard, 254
Amban Dance, 138
Amber, 290
Amethi, Rajah of, 156
Amias, 192
Amir of Afghanistan, 194, 229, 242, 283
Amir Khusran, 204
Amir (of Lucknow), 192
Amritsar, 217-224, 225
Annexation of Burmah, 65, 80, 81
Anundabagh, 156, 157
Aravalli Range, 303, 305
Arrakan Pagoda, 75, 78
Areca, 15, 99
Arhai-din-ka-jompra, 304, 305
Armoury, 254, 255
Assykhera, 173
Asoka, 206, 346
Assam, 100
Aurungzebe, 145, 152, 158, 194
Austin of Bordeaux, 199, 200
Australia, 175
Ava, 65
Avitabile, 228, 254
BABA ATTAL, 221
Babar, 235, 261
Bad Shahi Masjid, 253
Baluchistan, 278, 282
Bamboo, 17, 26, 37, 44, 48, 55, 69, 73, 90, 94, 99, 131, 136, 211,
233, 243, 325
Banyan tree, 23, 121, 129
Baradari, 253
Bay of Bengal, 2
Bazaars, 37, 81, 82, 166, 167, 173, 212, 231, 246, 258, 291, 328, 337
Beadon Square, 122
Bean Sing, 152
Bear, 50
Bee-eaters, 24
Begari Canal, 281
Benares, 142-162, 163, 289, 301
Benares, Maharajah of, 154, 159
Bengal Government Offices, 108
Bengali, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 127
Bengali theatres, 121-128
Bernard Free Library, 66
Besant, Mrs, 154
Betel, 15, 108, 124
Bhakkur Island, 279, 281
Bhamo, 39, 41-49, 77
Bhaskarananda Saraswati, 156, 157, 158
Bhils, 102
Black Mosque, 198, 207
Bodawpaya, 65
Bodh tree, 121
Bokhara, 227, 236
Bolan Pass, 278, 282, 285
Bombay, 126, 127, 225, 266
Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, Limited, 19, 81
Bostan Junction, 282, 287
Botanical Gardens, 129, 130
Bo-tree, 144, 145
Brahma, 126, 218, 302
Brahmin, 5, 334, 335
Buddha, 14, 15, 56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 75, 78, 120, 182, 217, 238
Buddhist, 259
Buddhist Society, 13-19
Buddhist Stupa, 237
Buddhist Tope, 148
Budge Bridge, 105
Burmah Oil Works, 8
Buxar, 142
CACTUS, 69, 87, 153, 290
Calcutta, 80, 100, 105-130, 141, 175, 179, 259
Camels, 240, 241, 243, 245, 247, 248, 284, 318
Cauvery, River, 93
Cawnpore, 175-180
Cawnpore Well, 179
Central Hindoo College, 154
Ceylon, 86, 99, 102, 130, 160, 284
Chagatta, 229, 232, 234
Chait Singh, Rajah, 160
Chakrayantra, 151
Chaman, 283, 285, 287
Chappa Rift, 288
Cheroot, 15, 17, 55, 80, 84
Chili, 5, 82, 230
China, 227, 349
Chinese, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 72, 73, 74, 109, 138, 147, 148, 183
Chitor, 299-303
Chitorgarh, 299
Chitral, 235
Chittagonians, 21
Choultry, 88
Chowringhee, 106, 109
Clive, Lord, 98
Cobra, 153
Coco-nut oil, 5
Coffee, 103
Colombo, 86
Connaught, Duchess of, 288
Cooper, Mr, 64, 65, 66
Coonoor, 100, 102, 103
Corrugated iron, 24, 37
Cotton, 87, 230, 306, 326
Cotton-mills, 86, 114, 270
Cotton, wild, 56
Cowrie money, 168, 219
Cow Temple, Benares, 147, 148
Crocodiles, 293
Crows, 76, 122, 183, 216
Curzon, Lord, 200, 219, 238
DABIR (of Lucknow), 192
Dacoit, 25, 45, 46
Dagh (of Delhi), 192
Dak tree, 210
Dal, 5, 82
Dalhousie Square, 108
Dancer, 6, 17, 45, 84, 169, 215, 271, 324
Dancing, 137, 138, 173, 285, 302, 322
Dara Shikoh, 197
Dargah, the, 303, 304
Darjeeling, 133-139
Darjeeling Himalaya Railway, 131
D'Avera, Monsieur, 42
Dehra Dun, 209-211, 215
Delhi, 128, 160, 196-208, 275
Dharbanga, 108
Dhuleep Singh, 254
Dilawar Khan, 232
Dilwarra Temples, 306-308
Diwan-i-am, 199, 201
Diwan-i-Khas, 202
Drama, 13, 16-19, 43, 47, 122-128
Dravidian, 87, 95, 102
Droog, 104
Dufferin Bridge, 151, 160
Dunlay, Private, 174
Durga Temple, Benares, 155, 156
Durian, 14
EAGLE, 24
Eastern Bengal State Railway, 106
Eastern Yomans, 23, 24
Edward the Seventh, 194, 276
Egrets, 76
Elephant Book, 96
Elephants, 19, 20, 23, 96, 97, 199, 251, 277, 296, 335, 340
Eng tree, 24
Etawah, 173
Eucalyptus, 99, 103, 211
Everest, Mount, 134, 135
FAKIRS, 147, 158, 161, 263, 341
Famine, 170, 315
Fatehpur-Sikri, 181-190, 303
Ferryshaw Siding, 39
Flamingoes, 295
Footprints, 60, 162, 333
Fort Dufferin, 77, 78
Fort Saint George, 97
Fort William, 106
France, 6, 81, 90, 224
French Legion, 254
GANESH, 91, 120, 145, 148, 300
Gangeli Khan, 234
Ganges River, 117, 136, 159, 175, 180, 333, 339
Gardens, 156, 165, 174, 272, 295
Garden Reach, 106
Gardner, Alexander, 272
Gautama, 16, 60, 76
Ghamberi, River, 299
Ghats, 150, 151, 152, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 180, 333, 334, 335
Ghonds, 102
Ghoom, 133
Glass, 10, 61, 62, 73, 74
Gobindaji, 293
Gokteik, 26-28
Golden Monastery, 74, 78
Golden Temple, Amritsar, 217, 218, 219, 222
Golden Temple, Benares, 144, 146, 161
Gopura, 88, 94
Gor Khatri, 227, 228, 229
Gourkhas, 79, 246, 255
Granth, 218, 219, 271, 334, 339
Grapes, 230, 293
Guru, 217, 220, 221, 223, 273
Gwalior, Maharajah of, 152
HAMADRYAD, 24
Hanuman, 120, 121, 160, 300
Hari Mandar, 218
Harnai Route, 287
Hastings, the, 7
Hastings, Marquis of, 108
Hastings Memorial, 227
Hastings, Warren, 143, 160
Hawks, 23
Himalayas, 131, 132, 134, 135, 211, 214, 279
Hindoo, 1, 2, 4, 6, 36, 39, 47, 87, 96, 100, 102, 113, 119, 120, 143,
145, 146, 147, 148, 152, 154, 159, 162, 180, 182, 186, 203, 207, 218,
228, 235, 255, 261, 281, 284, 285, 294, 302, 316, 348, 350
Hindoo Architecture, 87
Hirok, 282
Hodson, 203
Holi festival, 100, 207, 285
Hooghly, River, 105
Howrah, 106, 113, 114
Hpoongi, 37
Hsipaw, 28-38
Hsipaw, Sawbwa of, 28, 31-37
Hti, 10, 35, 74
Hulling, 21
Humayun, 202, 203, 260
Hurdwar, 333-335
Hyderabad, Deccan, 176
IDAR, 309-316
Idar Road, 309
Imambara, the Great, 170, 171, 173
Imambara, the Husainabad, 171, 173
Indus, River, 278, 281
Industrialism, 177
Irrawaddy, River, 39, 54, 56, 58
Irrawaddy, Flotilla Company, 39, 42, 54
Iron Foundry, 115
Iron Pillar, 206
Italians, 200, 201, 228
Izzat, 101
JACOBS, SIR SWINTON, 295
Jain, 205, 301, 303, 304, 307, 312
Jain Temple, 149, 152, 306, 308
Jaipur, 151, 290-295
Jama Masjid, Agra, 327
Jama Masjid, Delhi, 197, 202, 207
James and Mary, 105
Jamroud, 229, 239, 240, 241, 243
Jataka stories, 63
Java, 129
Jehanara, 204
Jehangir, 188, 189, 228, 253, 261, 262, 263
Juggernaut, 115, 120, 154
Jumna, River, 173, 199, 200, 201, 319, 330
Jute, 114, 142
Jute-mills, 106, 114
KABUL, 234, 236, 241
Kachins, 37, 48
Kali, 92, 116, 118, 120, 121
Kalighat, 116
Kampani Bagan, 128, 129
Kanishka, 237, 238
Kanutkwin, 25
Karapanasami, 91, 92
Kashmir, 225, 258
Kashmir Gate, 197
Kashmiris, 139
Katha, 40, 42
Khaskas grass, 170
Khawbgah, 181, 186
Kheddah, 20
Khyber Pass, 239-250
Kinchinjunga Mountain, 134
Kirowdi, 184
Kites, 76, 183, 278, 322
Kisshoor, 4
Kojak Pass, 283, 285
Kokand, 235
Kols, 102
Kubla Khan, 56
Kurseong, 132
Kuchi Khel, 242, 249, 250
Kutab Minar, 198, 204, 205
Kuthodaw, 78
Kyankine, 29
Kyansittha, King, 62, 63
Kyd's Monument, 130
LACQUER, 15, 56, 69, 70
Lady Canning's Seat, 104
Lahore, 233, 251, 265, 266
Lahore Gate, 199
Lalamusa, 225
Landi Kotal, 241, 243
Landour, 212, 214
Lansdowne Bridge, 278, 286
Lashio, 30
Lat, 206
Lawrence, Sir Henry, 174
Lebong, 135
Leogryphs, 8, 55
Leopard, 25
Lepchus, 139
Llama, 136
Lotus, 78, 79, 82, 183
Loungoes, 21
Lucknow, 163-174
Lugyis, 66
MADRAS, 2, 4, 6, 97, 98, 111
Madura, 87, 88, 89, 90, 95
Magwe, 68
Mahadevi, 35
Mahrattas, 113, 126, 127, 255
Maidan, 106, 109, 128
Maimyo, 3, 26
Malabar Coast, 110, 111
Malay Archipelago, 129
Mandalay, 54, 55, 56, 68, 70, 72-85
Mangi, 288
Mango, 211, 265
Mantapam, 88, 92, 95
Marionettes, 83
Marochetti, 179
Marwa, 136
Marwar, 303
Maung Nyo, 37
Mausoleum of Humayun, 202, 203
Mayo College, 305
Mayo School of Industrial Art, 258
Mecca, 171, 236
Meerut, 196, 206
Merthil Swami, 156, 157, 158
Mettapalaiyam, 99
Mewar, 295, 297, 299, 303
Minah, 183
Minachi, 87
Mohammed, 249
Mohammedan, 5, 6, 115, 145, 146, 152, 154, 162, 164, 169, 177, 191,
193, 194, 195, 205, 228, 229, 235, 261, 263, 281, 283, 291, 317, 330,
348, 350
Moharam Festival, 171, 191, 317, 332
Mongolian, 5, 102
Monkeys, 153, 155, 306, 337
Moplas, 110, 111
Mora, 41
Morison, Theodore, 347
Mosi Temple, 151
Mowgwa, 184
Mukolo, 69
Munro, Major Hector, 142
Munshi tree, 118
Museums, 148, 149, 173, 238, 258, 295
Music, 17, 44, 91, 97, 124, 161, 170, 184, 271, 285, 322, 339
Mussoorie, 211, 212, 213, 215
Mutaa, 169
Mutiny, the, 143, 164, 165, 170, 174, 197, 206, 207
Muttra, 293
Myrabolams, 177
NABANG, 29
Nabha, 266-277
Nabha, Rajah of, 266, 267, 268, 269, 274, 275, 276, 277
Nagas, 102, 334
Naggra, 184
Nagpur, 152
Nana Sahib, 180
Nandi, 95, 335
Narapatisezoo, King, 59
Natindaw, 66, 67, 68
Nats, 54, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68
Natsin, 68
Naurata, King, 62, 63, 68
Nautch, 6
Nayaka Dynasty, 90
Neem tree, 121, 161, 179
Nepaul, 128, 152
Nepaulis, 139
Ngapi, 24
Nicholson, General, 196, 197
Nilgiri Hills, 99
Nizam, the, 192
Nizam-ud-Din-Aulia, 204
Nour Jehan, 188, 189, 190, 192, 228, 261, 263, 264
Nyaungoo, 54, 55, 57, 64, 68
Nynung, 23
OBSERVATORIES, 151, 292
Ochterlony, Sir David, 106, 197
Ootacamund, 100, 102
Onslow Ford, 108
Opium, 273
Oshuck tree, 121
Otto of Roses, 170
Oudh, Nawab of, 142
PAGAN, 55-71
Pagodas, 7, 8-12, 39, 49, 58, 59, 74, 75, 78
Palmyra palm, 87
Parrots, 92, 184, 258, 270, 295, 337
Parsee, 121, 348
Peacocks, 25, 138, 290, 296, 323, 331
Peacock hawk, 24
Peacock Throne, 199
Peepul tree, 121, 180, 211, 291
Pegu, 23, 62, 63
Pegu River, 8
Peshawar, 225-237, 239, 240, 241, 246, 260, 261, 262
Phulkian States, 266, 269
Plague, 8, 29, 290, 314
Plantain, 37, 82
Polyandry, 102
Pomegranates, 230, 293
Poogi, 29
Poozoondoung, 19, 20
Popa, 65
Potter, 153
Powkpin, 24
Prayer-wheels, 136, 137
Prendergast, General, 80
Punjabis, 79, 210, 218
Pwe, 13, 16-19, 43-48, 83, 84, 85
Python, 153, 336
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, Benares, 143
Queen's Golden Monastery, 74, 78
Queen Victoria, 34, 171, 271, 279
Quetta, 282, 283, 285, 286
RADHA, 120
Rakhykash, 335-340
Rajpur, 211, 215
Rama, 160, 300
Rameswaram Temple, 121
Rangoon, 1-22, 23, 66, 75, 80, 105, 238
Rangoon River, 8
Ranjeet Singh, 228, 254, 256, 261, 268, 272, 273
Ravi River, 256, 262
Residency, Lucknow, the, 164, 165
Rhinoceros, 128
Rice, 1, 76, 82, 219, 230, 304
Rice mills, 20, 21
Rishi, 97
Rose, 82, 156, 183
Royal Lakes, 12
Runjeet River, 135, 136
Runnymede, 99
Ruri, 279, 280
SADHUS, 334
St Mary's Church, Madras, 98
St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, 112
Sal, 211
Salay, 64
Salim Chisti, 186, 187, 188
Samrat Yantra, 151
Sandalwood, 37, 162, 307
Sankarati Puja Festival, 113
Santals, 102
Sarnath, 148, 149
Sarwarnath, 335
Saturday god, 147
Sawche, 28, 32, 37
Screwpines, 130, 132
Scythian, 102
Sedaw, 26
Segaw, 41
Sepaya, Queen, 80
Sesamum, 15, 230
Seychelles, 130
Shaddra, 261, 262
Shahijikidheri, 237
Shah Jehan, 197, 204, 264
Shan States, 23, 26-38
Shannon, 179
Shias, 325, 330
Shikarpur, 278
Shwe Dagon, 7, 8-12, 75
Shwemetyna, 66, 68
Siam, 130
Sibi Junction, 282
Sikandra, 181, 193, 194, 195
Sikhs, 79, 218, 220, 223, 255, 262, 268, 271, 273, 274, 334, 338, 348
Sikkim, 136, 139
Sikra, 95
Siliguri, 131, 141
Silk, 82, 227, 269, 274
Sind Desert, 278
Singh, Sir Pratap, 309, 313-316
Sinkan, 50
Siriam, 7, 8
Sita, 160
Siva, 90, 96, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 145, 146, 153, 180, 297, 300,
302, 335
Siwaliks, 215
Snipe, 23
Sookua, 131
Soutakar, 4
South Indian Railway, 87
Srirangam, 93, 94
Stambham, 88
Sugar-cane, 142, 230, 318
Sukkur, 278, 279, 281
Sundareswara Temple, 87
TAGAUNG, 66
Taj Mahal, 319
Tamarind, 5, 82
Tanjore, 90, 95, 96
Tappakulam, 88, 92
Tartara, Mount, 228
Tea, 103
Teak, 8, 19, 40
Teester River, 136
Thaton, 62, 68
Thebaw, King, 42, 78, 80, 81
Thibetans, 133, 137, 138, 139
Thurligyaung, 67
Tiger, 25
Tiger Hill, 134, 135
Tikka Gharry, 9, 14
Tindaria, 132
Tippoo Sultan, 104
Tirah Hills, 250
Tobacco, 230
Todas, 102
Toddy palms, 130, 153
Tongu, 30
Tower Bridge, 7
Tree-ferns, 103, 132, 140
Tree-climbing perch, 24
Trichinopoly, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95
Tsar of Russia, 194
Turtles, 76
Tuticorin, 86, 284
UDAIPUR, 295-299
Udaipur, Maharana of, 297-299
Ulabaria, 114
VAISHNAVAS, 118, 121
Vallam, 90
Ventura, 254
Verloocooli, 4
Vimana, 88
Vishnu, 94, 118, 120, 121, 145, 152, 162, 206, 302
Vizianagram, Maharajah of, 154
Vultures, 68, 184, 322
WATER-SNAKE, 13
Wazirabad, 225
Waziristan, 258
Western Yomans, 23, 24
Wheat, 230, 233
Woollen mills, 175
YAK, 138
ZAKKA KHELS, 234, 246
Zam Zammah, 257
Zenana, 124, 126, 293
Zoological Gardens, 51, 128
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