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.
1. Pindaree system. Character of the Mahratta administration. Causes of their dislike to the paramount power 2. Dholepore, capital of the Jat chiefs of Gohud. Consequence of obstacles to the prosecution of robbers 3. Influence of electricity on vegetation. Agra and its buildings 4. Noor Jehan, the aunt of the Empress Noor Bahul, over whose remains the Taj is built 5. Father Gregory's notion of the impediments to conversion in India. Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern languages 6. Futtehpore Secree. The Emperor Akbar's pilgrimage. Birth of Jehangeer 7. Bhurtpore. Deeg. Want of employment for the military and the educated classes under the Company's rule 8. Goverdhun, the scene of Krishna's dalliance with the milkmaids 9. Veracity 10. Declining fertility of the soil. Popular notion of the cause 11. Concentration of capital, and its effects 12. Transit duties in India. Mode of collecting them 13. Peasantry of India attached to no existing government. Want of trees in Upper India. Cause and consequence. Wells and groves 14. Public spirit of the Hindoos. Tree cultivation, and suggestion for extending it 15. Cities and towns, formed by public establishments, disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their abodes 16. Murder of Mr. Fraser, and execution of the Nowab Shumshoodeen 17. Marriage of a Jât chief 18. Collegiate endowment of Mahomedan tombs and mosques 19. The old city of Delhi 20. New Delhi, or Shah Jehanabad 21. Indian police. Its defects, and their cause and remedy 22. Rent-free tenures. Right of Government to resume such grants 23. The station of Meerut. Atalees who dance and sing gratis for the benefit of the poor 24. Subdivision of lands. Want of gradations of rank. Taxes 25. Meerut. Anglo-Indian society 26. Pilgrims in India 27. The Begum Sumroo 28. On the spirit of military discipline in the native army of India 29. Invalid establishment.
1. Pindaree system. Character of the Mahratta administration. Causes of their dislike to the paramount power 2. Dholepore, capital of the Jat chiefs of Gohud. Consequence of obstacles to the prosecution of robbers 3. Influence of electricity on vegetation. Agra and its buildings 4. Noor Jehan, the aunt of the Empress Noor Bahul, over whose remains the Taj is built 5. Father Gregory's notion of the impediments to conversion in India. Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern languages 6. Futtehpore Secree. The Emperor Akbar's pilgrimage. Birth of Jehangeer 7. Bhurtpore. Deeg. Want of employment for the military and the educated classes under the Company's rule 8. Goverdhun, the scene of Krishna's dalliance with the milkmaids 9. Veracity 10. Declining fertility of the soil. Popular notion of the cause 11. Concentration of capital, and its effects 12. Transit duties in India. Mode of collecting them 13. Peasantry of India attached to no existing government. Want of trees in Upper India. Cause and consequence. Wells and groves 14. Public spirit of the Hindoos. Tree cultivation, and suggestion for extending it 15. Cities and towns, formed by public establishments, disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their abodes 16. Murder of Mr. Fraser, and execution of the Nowab Shumshoodeen 17. Marriage of a Jât chief 18. Collegiate endowment of Mahomedan tombs and mosques 19. The old city of Delhi 20. New Delhi, or Shah Jehanabad 21. Indian police. Its defects, and their cause and remedy 22. Rent-free tenures. Right of Government to resume such grants 23. The station of Meerut. Atalees who dance and sing gratis for the benefit of the poor 24. Subdivision of lands. Want of gradations of rank. Taxes 25. Meerut. Anglo-Indian society 26. Pilgrims in India 27. The Begum Sumroo 28. On the spirit of military discipline in the native army of India 29. Invalid establishment.
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