Agra
Agra Like Delhi, Has Been Indebted, If Not For Its Origin, At Any Rate For Its Importance, To The Commercial And Strategetical Advantages Of Its Position. The Jumna Was The Natural Highway For The Traffic Of The Rich Delta Of Bengal To The Heart Of India, And It Formed From ...
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad Ahmedabad, The Capital Of Gujarat Will Always Be A City Of Interest As Containing Some Of The Most Perfect And The Most Characteristic Forms Which Saracenic Architecture Assumed In India. It Has Also A History Which Has An Interest, Studied On The Spot, Among The Monuments Of The City. ...
Benares
Benares India, Far More Than In Any Part Of Europe, Even Italy, The Life Of The Present Is Imposed Upon The Strata Of Successive Past Generations. Vedic, Brahminic, Buddhist, And Muslim Civilizations Have Flourished And De Cayed On Nearly The Same Spot, And We Find A City Like Benares Surviving ...
Bombay
Bombay Last Week In October We Left Victoria Station To Join The P. & O. Mail Steamer At Brindisi. The Air Was Chill And Damp, And The Fog Lay Thick Over City And River. At Dawn, Fourteen Days After, We Were Anchored In The Harbour Of Beautiful, Sun-girt Bombay, And ...
Calcutta
Calcutta Days After Leaving Madras, About Dusk, We Came To A Low Bank Running Into The Sea—such A Place As That To Which The Wounded Arthur Was Borne In His Rent Armour. " A Dark Strait Of Barren Land : On One Side Lay The Ocean, And On One Lay ...
Cawnpore
Cawnpore Story Of Cawnpore Is As Tragic As The Tale Of The Last Agonies Of The Athenian Host In Sicily, And It Will Be Of In Terest To Englishmen As Long As We Care To Remember The Story Of Our People. Some Of Our Indian Administrators Would Like To Destroy ...
Cuddalore
Cuddalore One Morning At Dawn We Manage To Squeeze Ourselves Into A Jutka, Which Is To Take Us To Cuddalore. The Operation Requires Considerable Skill And Agility, For The Jutka Is A Small Box On Two Wheels. A Small Pony Drags The Box, And A Large Naked Black Savage Drives ...
Delhi
Delhi The Empress Of Indian Cities. She Has Often Been Sacked And Left Naked And Desolate. But She Could Not Be Despoiled Of The Incomparable Situation Which Marks Her For The Metropolis Of A Great Empire. Standing On Her High Battlements, The Eye Can Sweep Over A Wide Expanse Of ...
Fattehpur Sikri
Fattehpur-sikri Air Is Crisp And Bright On The December Morning We Leave Agra To Drive To Fattehpur-sikri. We Pass Fields Waving In Green Wheat, With Patches Of Bright Red Poppies Scattered About. From Them There Comes The Monotonous Wail Of The Ryot's Song As He Drives The Bullocks That Draw ...
Jeypore
Jeypore Ajmer The Open Tableland Spreads Eastward Towards Jeypore, Which Stands On A Sandy And Barren Plain Sixteen Hundred Feet Above The Sea, Surrounded On Three Sides By Stony Hills. From This Point The Aravell Range No Longer Forms An Unbroken Barrier Against The Desert. Ajmer Whispers The Mediaeval Enchantment ...
Lucknow
Lucknow Fifty Years After The Death Of Aurangzeb, The Foundations Of The Empire Which Baber Created And Akbar, Jehangir And Shan Jehan Consolidated, Were Mined To The Centre And The Viceroys Of The Provinces Tablished Independent Kingdoms For Themselves. In The South The Turki Chin Kilich Khan, Better Known As ...
Madras
Madras The Deck Of A Steamer In The Grey Dawn Of The Morning Madras Rising From A Long Stretch Of Bright Sandy Beach Beyond The Dark Green Sea Has The Appearance Of A Continental City. Madras Has, However, Kept To A Large Extent An Early Individuality, And The Past Is ...
Mount Abu And Ajmer
Mount Abu And Ajmer Journey Onward From Ahmedabad Will Lead Us As Its Next Natural Stopping-place To The Isolated Peak Of Mount Abu, " The Saints' Pinnacle," The Rajpoot Olympus. The Traveller Who, After Traversing The Richly Cultivated Plain Of Gujarat, Mounts That Lofty Ridge Will Understand The Influence Which ...
Pondicherry
Pondicherry Was A Fresh Morning In September When We Left Madras For Pondicherry. The Recent Rain Had Refreshed The Atmosphere And Made The Trees Green And Fresh. For The First Fifty Miles We Passed Through Stretches Of Land Covered With Scrub, Dotted Here And There With Patches Of Cultiva Tion. ...
Surat
Surat All Travellers Who Take An Interest In The History Of The Rise Of British Dominion In India, Their First Point Of Stoppage After Leaving Bombay Should Be Surat. It Was At The Port Of Surat That English Enterprise, After Roaming Over The Indian Seas, First Furled Its Wandering Sail ...