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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. THE SUEZ CANAL HOME. At 10.30 on Monday morning, 6th March, our anchor was dropped in the roadstead of Suez, among numerous steamers of various nations, including H.M.S. Cleopatra, and the Khedive, and Teheran of the P. & O. Line. Then followed the usual absurd ceremonies of the quarantine system--a health-despatch received on a forked stick, a list of passengers thrown into a tin box, and the mails put in tarred sacks, Bombay and Aden being infected ports, and passengers from the Venetia not being allowed to land in order to proceed to Alexandria by rail. I have mentioned previously that the British Government in India no longer manage idol temples, but we adopted the endowments which existed before our rule, and now pay very large sums to the Hindoo and Mahommedan places of worship, in the shape of annual cash payments; and, besides, lands and villages are assigned for their support to an extent the value of which it is not easy accurately to discover. In the Bombay Presidency alone, and excluding five districts not in the returns, 2,725 district religious establishments, and 11,039 village temples, are paid no less than 214,947; and the total sum contributed, taking cash payments and assignments together, is computed to be five lacs of rupees. In Madras the return of November, 1872, shows that land revenue alienations equal to 2,332,570r. in the case of Hindoos, and 263,194r. in the case of Mahommedans, are applied for religious purposes, while 525,407r. were disbursed from treasuries for the same uses. Sooner or later the Government must face the question how this system can be put an end to, and these payments be made to cease, leaving the temples and mosques ultimately, as a writer in one of the journals puts it, "to depend entirely on ...
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‘Interesting and relevant ... [A Winter in India] sum[s] up a typical British attitude to empire and to India in the early twentieth century. First, ... the products of power ... secondly, ... "duty" and "progress." Third ... genuine incomprehension and incompatibility. Finally, ... admiration, fascination and affection.’ ― Peter Robb
‘[An] entertaining story.’ ― The New York Times, 22 February 1914
Archibald B. Spens served as a Captain in the Royal Army Service Corps, 1915–18, and in the 2nd/18th Essex Regiment in 1920. He was made Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919. Including A Winter in India, he was the author of five books.
Peter Robb was Research Professor of the History of India and is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS ),University of London.
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151410616
- ISBN 13 9781151410610
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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