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Author : William Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044017922386
Author : John Beames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : British
ISBN : 1780601905
Author : William Edwards
Publisher : General Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 145896390X
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. VOYAGE TO CALCUTTA?APPOINTED ASSISTANT SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF AGRA?AFFAIRS IN AFFGHANISTAN. I Left Bombay for Calcutta in the end of August, 1837, in a small vessel called the Ambassador, which was employed in the merchant service between that port, Madras, and Bombay. We had a very pleasant and prosperous voyage to Madras, and after a stay of several days there proceeded to Calcutta. It was late in the evening when we sailed, and the appearance of the weather was most threatening; the storm signal for vessels to put to sea was flying at the flagstaff. We had scarcely sailed when the gale commenced blowing furiously; but it was fortunately in our favour. The night was very dark, and about nine o'clock, as I was standing by the captain, close to the wheel, we suddenly saw immediately before us a vessel beating across our bows. We were on the crest of a sea and she in the trough beneath, so that I could see right on to her deck, and a collision seemed inevitable. My first idea was that the shock would be so great that I should certainly be thrown down, and perhaps overboard; so I jumped forward and seized hold of the binnacle to steady myself.In the twinkling of an eye we crashed into her; but strange to say, I was unconscious of any shock. We struck her near the stern, carried away her boat and bulwarks and a mass of rigging, and dragged her after us for a short way, before we could get clear. The noise of the wind, the crashing of the rigging, and the shouts of the crew of both vessels were rather appalling. As soon as we were clear, I heard the captain give the order to sound the pumps, and I think I scarcely ever in my life felt more relieved and thankful than when I heard the answer that all was well, and that we had received no damage. The darkne...
Author : William Edwards
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359027947
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Author : John Beames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:1310743633
Author : H.K. Kaul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351867177
This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.
Author : Rose Sophie Mary Weigall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026183979
Author : Lady Rose Sophia Mary Fane Weigall,Rose Sophia Mary Fane Weigall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Princes
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000433348
Author : lady Rose Sophia M. Weigall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600075093
Author : John Beames
Publisher : Eland Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0907871097
Vibrant and original memoirs of a civil servant in India from 1858 to 1893, telling of rapacious planters, improvised fifteen-gun salutes, lofty Rajas and dissolute Englishmen. Vivid and candid tales from a huge bureaucracy, in rich descriptive prose
Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520315228
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Author : Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89065168296
Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520329607
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author : M. J. Akbar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354355288
In July 1765 Robert Clive, in a letter to Sir Francis Sykes, compared Gomorrah favourably to Calcutta, then capital of British India. He wrote: 'I will pronounce Calcutta to be one of the most wicked places in the Universe.' Drawing upon the letters, memoirs and journals of traders, travellers, bureaucrats, officials, officers and the occasional bishop, Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar is a chronicle of racial relations between Indians and their last foreign invaders, sometimes infuriating but always compelling. A multitude of vignettes, combined with insight and analysis, reveal the deeply ingrained conviction of 'white superiority' that shaped this history. How deep this conviction was is best illustrated by the fact that the British abandoned a large community of their own children because they were born of Indian mothers. The British took pride in being outsiders, even as their exploitative revenue policy turned periodic drought and famine into horrific catastrophes, killing impoverished Indians in millions. There were also marvellous and heart-warming exceptions in this extraordinary panorama, people who transcended racial prejudice and served as a reminder of what might have been had the British made India a second home and merged with its culture instead of treating it as a fortune-hunter's turf. The power was indisputable-the British had lost just one out of 18 wars between 1757 and 1857. Defeated repeatedly on the battlefield, Indians found innovative and amusing ways of giving expression to resentment in household skirmishes, social mores and economic subversion. When Indians tried to imitate the sahibs, they turned into caricatures; when they absorbed the best that the British brought with them, the confluence was positive and productive. But for the most part, subject and ruler lived parallel lives. From the celebrated writer of the bestselling Gandhi's Hinduism: the Struggle Against Jinnah's Islam comes this extensively researched and utterly engrossing book, which is easy to pick up and difficult to put down.
Author : Sir Adolphus Slade
Publisher : London : Smith, Elder
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
ISBN : BSB:BSB10408628
