A wide-ranging two-volume portrait of India written by a British colonial official who lived there for more than thirty years.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dedication 1. Annual fairs held upon the banks of sacred streams in India 2. Hindoo system of religion 3. Legend of the Nerbudda River 4. A suttee on the Nerbudda 5. Marriages of trees. The tank and the plaintain. Meteors. Rainbows 6. Hindoo marriages 7. The purveyance system 8. Religious sects. Self-government of the castes. Chimney-sweepers. Washerwomen. Elephant-drivers 9. The great Iconoclast. Troop routed by hornets. The Ranee of Gurba. Hornets' nest in India 10. The peasantry and the land settlement 11. Witchcraft 12. The silver tree, or kulpa briksha. The Singhara, or trapa bispinosa, and the Guinea worm 13. Thugs and poisoners 14. Basaltic cappings of the sandstone hills of central India. Suspension bridge. Prospect of the Nerbudda valley. Deification of a mortal 15. Legend of the Sauger Lake. Paralysis from eating the grain of the Lathyrus sativus 16. Suttee tombs. Insalubrity of deserted fortresses 17. Basaltic cappings. Interview with a native chief. A singular character 18. Birds' nests. Sports of boyhood 19. Feeding pilgrims. Marriage of a stone with a shrub 20. The men-tigers 21. Burning of Deoree by a freebooter. A Suttee 22. Interview with the Rajah who marries the stone to the shrub. Orders of the Moon and the Fish 23. The Rajah of Orcha. Murder of his many ministers 24. Corn dealers. Scarcities. Famines in India 25. Epidemic diseases. Scape-goat 26. Artificial lakes in Bundelcund. Hindoo, Greek, and Roman faith 27. Blights 28. Pestle and mortar sugar-mills. Washing away of the soil 29. Interview with the chiefs of Jansee. Disputed succession 30. Haunted villages 31. Interview with the Rajah of Duteea. Fiscal errors of statesmen. Thieves and robbers by profession 32. Sporting at Duteea. Fidelity of followers to their chiefs in India. Law of primogeniture wanting among Mahomedans 33. Bhoomeeawut 34. The suicide. Relations between parents and children in India 35. Gwalior plain once the bed of a lake. Tameness of peacocks 36. Gwalior and its government 37. Contest for empire between the sons of Shah Jehan 38. Ourungzebe and Moorad defeat their father's army near Ojeun 39. Dara marches in person against his brothers, and is defeated 40. Dara retreats towards Lamore. Is robbed by the Jats. Their character 41. Shah Jehan imprisoned by his two sons, Ourungzebe and Moorad 42. Ourungzebe throws off the mask, imprisons his brother Moorad, and assumes the government of the empire 43. Ourungzebe meets Shoojah in Bengal and defeats him, after pursuing Dara to the Hyphasis 44. Ourungzebe imprisons his eldest son. Shoojah and all his family are destroyed 45. Second defeat and death of Dara, and imprisonment of his two sons 46. Death and character of Ameer Jumla 47. Reflections on the preceding history 48. The great diamond of Kohinoor.
Dedication 1. Annual fairs held upon the banks of sacred streams in India 2. Hindoo system of religion 3. Legend of the Nerbudda River 4. A suttee on the Nerbudda 5. Marriages of trees. The tank and the plaintain. Meteors. Rainbows 6. Hindoo marriages 7. The purveyance system 8. Religious sects. Self-government of the castes. Chimney-sweepers. Washerwomen. Elephant-drivers 9. The great Iconoclast. Troop routed by hornets. The Ranee of Gurba. Hornets' nest in India 10. The peasantry and the land settlement 11. Witchcraft 12. The silver tree, or kulpa briksha. The Singhara, or trapa bispinosa, and the Guinea worm 13. Thugs and poisoners 14. Basaltic cappings of the sandstone hills of central India. Suspension bridge. Prospect of the Nerbudda valley. Deification of a mortal 15. Legend of the Sauger Lake. Paralysis from eating the grain of the Lathyrus sativus 16. Suttee tombs. Insalubrity of deserted fortresses 17. Basaltic cappings. Interview with a native chief. A singular character 18. Birds' nests. Sports of boyhood 19. Feeding pilgrims. Marriage of a stone with a shrub 20. The men-tigers 21. Burning of Deoree by a freebooter. A Suttee 22. Interview with the Rajah who marries the stone to the shrub. Orders of the Moon and the Fish 23. The Rajah of Orcha. Murder of his many ministers 24. Corn dealers. Scarcities. Famines in India 25. Epidemic diseases. Scape-goat 26. Artificial lakes in Bundelcund. Hindoo, Greek, and Roman faith 27. Blights 28. Pestle and mortar sugar-mills. Washing away of the soil 29. Interview with the chiefs of Jansee. Disputed succession 30. Haunted villages 31. Interview with the Rajah of Duteea. Fiscal errors of statesmen. Thieves and robbers by profession 32. Sporting at Duteea. Fidelity of followers to their chiefs in India. Law of primogeniture wanting among Mahomedans 33. Bhoomeeawut 34. The suicide. Relations between parents and children in India 35. Gwalior plain once the bed of a lake. Tameness of peacocks 36. Gwalior and its government 37. Contest for empire between the sons of Shah Jehan 38. Ourungzebe and Moorad defeat their father's army near Ojeun 39. Dara marches in person against his brothers, and is defeated 40. Dara retreats towards Lamore. Is robbed by the Jats. Their character 41. Shah Jehan imprisoned by his two sons, Ourungzebe and Moorad 42. Ourungzebe throws off the mask, imprisons his brother Moorad, and assumes the government of the empire 43. Ourungzebe meets Shoojah in Bengal and defeats him, after pursuing Dara to the Hyphasis 44. Ourungzebe imprisons his eldest son. Shoojah and all his family are destroyed 45. Second defeat and death of Dara, and imprisonment of his two sons 46. Death and character of Ameer Jumla 47. Reflections on the preceding history 48. The great diamond of Kohinoor.
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