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RamblesAnchor
Rambles and recollections of an Indian official!
Major-General Sir W. H. Sleeman, K.C.B.
Dārā Marches in Person against his Brothers, and is Defeated

The book


CONTENTS


AUTHOR'S DEDICATION


EDITOR'S PREFACES

1893 1915


MEMOIR


BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER 1

Annual Fairs held on the Banks of Sacred Streams in India


CHAPTER 2

Hindoo System of Religion


CHAPTER 3

Legend of the Nerbudda River


CHAPTER 4

A Suttee on the Nerbudda


CHAPTER 5

Marriages of Trees—The Tank and the Plantain—Meteors—Rainbows


CHAPTER 6

Hindoo Marriages


CHAPTER 7

The Purveyance System


CHAPTER 8

Religious Sects—Self-government of the Castes—Chimneysweepers—Washerwomen —Elephant Drivers


CHAPTER 9

The Great Iconoclast—Troops routed by Hornets—The Rānī of Garhā—Hornets' Nests in India


CHAPTER 10

The Peasantry and the Land Settlement


CHAPTER 11

Witchcraft


CHAPTER 12

The Silver Tree, or 'Kalpa Briksha'—The 'Singhāra', or Trapa bispinosa, and the Guinea-Worm


CHAPTER 13

Thugs and Poisoners


CHAPTER 14

Basaltic Cappings of the Sandstone Hills of Central India—Suspension Bridge—Prospects of the Nerbudda Valley—Deification of a Mortal


CHAPTER 15

Legend of the Sāgar Lake—Paralysis from eating the Grain of the Lathyrus sativus


CHAPTER 16

Suttee Tombs—Insalubrity of deserted Fortresses


CHAPTER 17

Basaltic Cappings—Interview with a Native Chief—A Singular Character


CHAPTER 18

Birds' Nests—Sports of Boyhood


CHAPTER 19

Feeding Pilgrims—Marriage of a Stone with a Shrub


CHAPTER 20

The Men-Tigers


CHAPTER 21

Burning of Deorī by a Freebooter—A Suttee


CHAPTER 22

Interview with the Rājā who marries the Stone to the Shrub—Order of the Moon and the Fish


CHAPTER 23

The Rājā of Orchhā—Murder of his many Ministers


CHAPTER 24

Corn Dealers—Scarcities—Famines in India


CHAPTER 25

Epidemic Diseases—Scape-goat


CHAPTER 26

Artificial Lakes in Bundēlkhand-Hindoo, Greek, and Roman Faith


CHAPTER 27

Blights


CHAPTER 28

Pestle-and-Mortar Sugar-Mills—Washing away of the Soil


CHAPTER 29

Interview with the Chiefs of Jhānsī—Disputed Succession


CHAPTER 30

Haunted Villages


CHAPTER 31

Interview with the Rājā of Datiyā—Fiscal Errors of Statesmen—Thieves and Robbers by Profession


CHAPTER 32

Sporting at Datiyā—Fidelity of Followers to their Chiefs in India—Law of Primogeniture wanting among Muhammadans


CHAPTER 33

'Bhūmiāwat'


CHAPTER 34

The Suicide-Relations between Parents and Children in India


CHAPTER 35

Gwālior Plain once the Bed of a Lake—Tameness of Peacocks


CHAPTER 36

Gwālior and its Government


CHAPTER 37

Contest for Empire between the Sons of Shah Jahān


CHAPTER 38

Aurangzēb and Murād Defeat their Father's Army near Ujain


CHAPTER 39

Dārā Marches in Person against his Brothers, and is Defeated


CHAPTER 40

Dārā Retreats towards Lahore—Is robbed by the Jāts—Their Character


CHAPTER 41

Shāh Jahān Imprisoned by his Two Sons, Aurangzēb and Murād


CHAPTER 42

Aurangzēb Throws off the Mask, Imprisons his Brother Murād, and Assumes the Government of the Empire


CHAPTER 43

Aurangzēb Meets Shujā in Bengal, and Defeats him, after Pursuing Dārā to the Hyphasis


CHAPTER 44

Aurangzēb Imprisons his Eldest Son—Shujā and all his Family are Destroyed


CHAPTER 45

Second Defeat and Death of Dārā, and Imprisonment of his Two Sons


CHAPTER 46

Death and Character of Amīr Jumla


CHAPTER 47

Reflections on the Preceding History


CHAPTER 48

The Great Diamond of Kohinūr


CHAPTER 49

Pindhārī System—Character of the Marāthā Administration—Cause of their Dislike to the Paramount Power


CHAPTER 50

Dhōlpur, Capital of the Jāt Chiefs of Gohad—Consequence of Obstacles to the Prosecution of Robbers


CHAPTER 51

Influence of Electricity on Vegetation—Agra and its Buildings


CHAPTER 52

Nūr Jahān, the Aunt of the Empress Nūr Mahal, over whose Remains the Tāj is built


CHAPTER 53

Father Gregory's Notion of the Impediments to Conversion in India—Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern Languages


CHAPTER 54

Fathpur-Sīkrī—The Emperor Akbar's Pilgrimage—Birth of Jahāngīr


CHAPTER 55

Bharatpur—Dīg—Want of Employment for the Military and the Educated Classes under the Company's Rule


CHAPTER 56

Govardhan, the Scene of Kriahna's Dalliance with the Milkmaids


CHAPTER 57

Veracity


CHAPTER 58

Declining Fertility of the Soil—Popular Notion of the Cause


CHAPTER 59

Concentration of Capital and its Effects


CHAPTER 60

Transit Duties in India—Mode of Collecting them


CHAPTER 61

Peasantry of India attached to no existing Government—Want of Trees in Upper India—Cause and Consequence—Wells and Groves


CHAPTER 62

Public Spirit of the Hindoos—Tree Cultivation and Suggestions for extending it


CHAPTER 63

Cities and Towns, formed by Public Establishments, disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their Abodes


CHAPTER 64

Murder of Mr. Fraser, and Execution of the Nawāb Shams-ud- dīn


CHAPTER 65

Marriage of a Jāt Chief


CHAPTER 66

Collegiate Endowment of Muhammadan Tombs and Mosques


CHAPTER 67

The Old City of Delhi


CHAPTER 68

New Delhi, or Shāhjahānābād


CHAPTER 69

Indian Police—Its Defects—and their Cause and Remedy


CHAPTER 70

Rent-free Tenures—Right of Government to Resume such Grants


CHAPTER 71

The Station of Meerut—'Atālīs' who Dance and Sing gratuitously for the Benefit of the Poor


CHAPTER 72

Subdivisions of Lands—Want of Gradations of Rank—Taxes


CHAPTER 73

Meerut-Anglo-Indian Society


CHAPTER 74

Pilgrims of India


CHAPTER 75

The Bēgam Sumroo


CHAPTER 76

ON THE SPIRIT OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE IN THE NATIVE ARMY OF INDIA

Abolition of Corporal Punishment—Increase of Pay with Length of Service—Promotion by Seniority


CHAPTER 77

Invalid Establishment


Appendix:

Thuggee and the part taken in its Suppression by General Sir W. H. Sleeman, K.C.B., by Captain J. L. Sleeman

Supplementary Note by the Editor

Additions and Corrections


Maps Showing Author's Route

INDEX

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