DOCSLIB.ORG

The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India. Vol. I. By

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India. Vol. I. By THE TRAVELS OF A HINDOO TO VARIOUS PARTS OF BENGAL AND UPPER INDIA. VOL. I. BY BHOLANAUTH CHUNDER, MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. London 1869. Reproduced by Sani H. Panhwar (California 2014) CONTENTS OF VOL I. A TRIP UP THE HOOGHLY. CHAPTER I. Preliminary remarks.—The date of the earliest trip.—Chitpore. —Legend of Chitraswari.—Cossipore.—Burranagur.—Duckinasore.— Balli.—Penhatty.— Sumaj of Raghub Pundit. —Khurdah.--The Gossains.—Mahesh.—Serampore.— Barrackpore.—The Hindoo Lady of Job Charnock.—Ghiretty.— Chandernagore.—The French Revolution there.—Chinsurah. —Hooghly.—The annihilation of the Portuguese power in Bengal. —Satgaun.— Triveni.— Doomurdah.— The robber-chief Issur Baboo.—Sooksagur.—Chagdah.— Goopteeparah. --Santipoor.—Kulna.—Nuddea.—Traditions of its origin. —Its celebrity as a place of learning.—History of Choitunya. —Present state of the Brahmins of Nuddea.—A Gymnosophist.—Jahn-nugger.—Brahmaditala.— Snake-charmers and snake-players.—Krishnugger.—Anecdote of convict labour. —Rajah Krishna Chunder Roy.—The poet Bharut Chunder.— Agradweep.— Cutwa.—Choitunya’s adoption of Dundeeism.—Clive and the guardian angel of Britain.—Plassey.— The river Adjai.—Bisramtullak—Soopoor.—Rajah Surath.— The vagabond Sunnyassi.—Kenduli, the birth-place of Joydeva.—Doobrajpoor.— Hot wells of Bukkesur.—Soory.--The old woman of eighty-six.—Cynthia.— Jammo-Kundee—Festival of Rasjatra.—Berhampore.—The Irish Raja of Hurrianah.—Kasimbazar.—Moorshedabad, as it was and as it is.—The new palace of the Nabob Nazim.—His Zenana.—Jungi-pore.—Sooty.--The ruins of Gour . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 CHAPTER II. Rajmahal.—The Mootee-Jhurna waterfall.—Secreegully—The Terriagurry Pass.—Peer-Pointee.—Colgong.—Bhagulpore.-- Cleveland’s monuments.— Mount Mandar.—The rock of Jan-. geerah.—Sultangung.—The ancient Buddhist Vihara, or monastery.—Jumalpore tunnel.--Hot springs of Seetakoond.— Mongbyr.—Ancient Palibothra and modern. Patna.—Bankipore.—The sacred Peepul tree of Buddha.—Herihar-Chetra Mela and Sonepore Races.— Dinapore.—The Soane Bridge.— Arrah.—Chuprah.—Ghazipore.—Lord Cornwallis’s tomb.— Chunar.—Trimbukjee Danglia, the ex-minister of Baja Row.—The Almighty’s seat at Chunar.—Mirzapore.—The temple of Bindachul. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 A TOUR TO THE NORTH-WEST. CHAPTER III. Introductory remarks.—Railway in India.—Pundooa tower.—Battle of the Cow.—The ghost of a bovine Bhuggobuttee.— The iron rod, or Shah Sufi’s walking-stick.—Peer-pukur and Fatiklian, or the tame alligator.--Boinchi.—The robber in India.—The Amazon Kali.—Mam aree.—Bu rd wan.—The tale of Biddya and Soondra.—Biddyapotta, or the abode of Biddya. —The Maunsurrobur, or Raja Maun’s tank.—The Mushan, or the place of Soondra’s execution.—The Nabobhaut.— Shere Afkun’s tomb.—The old Rajbaree.—The Maharajah of Burdwan.—Kristoshair and female swimmers.—The Dilk-hoosa- baug.—The menagerie and its lions.—The future of Hindoo shrines and temples. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 73 CHAPTER IV. Mankur.—Paneeghur.—Legend of Byjnath.—Hindoo opinion of coals.—The petrified forest at Singarim.—Raneegunge.— Hindoo and Anglo-Saxon characteristics.—The future of Raneegunge.—Its collieries.— The Damooder.— The Grand Trunk Road.—Dawk travelling.—The Barakur river.—The Barakur serai.—Young Bengal’s picture of the prospective of India.—The Santhals, an aboriginal race.—Their homes and habits.—Santhal females.—Santhal polity and religion. —The hill-tribes of India.—Taldangah bungalow. .. 85 CHAPTER V. Mount Parisnatb.—Topechanchee.—The Hindoostanee proverb about Bengal.— Jain temple at Parisnath.—Doomree.—The desolation of the hill-regions.—The man carried by a tiger. —A gentleman’s encounter with a bear.—The break- down of a dawk-gharry.—Burhee.—Dunwah Pass.—Barrak-serai. —The sick child.—Legend of the Fulgoo river.—Shergotty. —The Vishnupud at Gaya.— Perpetual widowership of the Gayalese.—Antiquities of Oomga.—The legend of the Nerbudda and Soane.—Deyree.—Rotasgurh.—Koer Sing and Ummer Sing.— The Gossain-talao. — Sasseram.— Haseyn Khan’s tomb.—The tomb of Shere Shah.--Legend of the Caramnassa river.—Rajah Trisanku and Young Bengal. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 106 CHAPTER VI. Benares.—Its situation upon the Trident of Shiva and exemption from earthquakes.—Legend of Vyas-Kasi interpreted. —Hindoo characteristics of Benares.—The great antiquity, and description of that city in a Tamul drama.— The many changes in its site, and the origin of its present name.—Its modern features.—The fort of Benares.—The Rajghaut.— Khottah architecture.—The idols and temples.—Various sectarian influences at various times.—Bheloopoor, the birth-place of Parisnath.—The Ranee Dowager of Vizianagram.— Ghautscenes at Benares.—Teelabhandessur, and his history.—The legend of Munikurnika-ghaut.—The observatory.—Madoo-raike-dharara, or the mosque of Aurungzebe.—Ramnugger.— The temple of Biseswara.—The Gyan-Bapi.—The temple of Unna Poorna.—Sunnyassees and Bhoyrubbees.—Sameness of sight- seeing in Benares.—The Chouk.—The Benares college. —Comparison of Sanscrit and English.—Summing up of the account of Benares.—Secrole.—Church Mission School.—Warren Hastings at Benares in 1781, and the Englishman there in 1860.—A Mofussil magistrate and a Calcutta attorney.—The English burial- ground at Secrole.—The mutiny at Benares.—The Bengalee-tola, or the quarter of the Bengalees.— Sarnath.—The Buddhist temple of Dhamek.—Choukandi, or Luri-ka-kodan.—Description of Benares in the Kasi-khund.— Destruction of Sarnath . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 125 CHAPTER VII. Allahabad.—The Ganges and Jumna.—Shaving operation at their confluence.— The Allahabad mela.—Antiquity of the city.—Ancient Hindoo Republic at Allahabad.—Legend of the Seraswattee river.—The Allahabad fort.—The transmigration of Akber from a Hindoo Brahmin to a Mahomedan emperor— Importance of Allahabad during the mutiny.— Patalpooree, or the subterranean temple.—Bheema’s Gada or Lat.—Jehangeer and his Marwaree Begum.—Martial law at Allahabad.—Stories of the mutiny.—Hindoostanee peasant-women.—The Duria-ghaut. —Bhradwaj Muni’s hermitage.—The Chusero Bagh.—The rebel Moulivie and his well.--Battle of the Shoes.—The future of Allahabad.—The valley of the Doab.—Berhampore.—Futtehpore.—Cawnpore, past and present.— Shah Behari Lal’s ghaut.—Nana and his council.—MissWheeler.—The House of Massacre.—Intrenchments of General Wheeler.—Suttee-Chowra-ghaut—Ancient Khetryas and modern Sepoys.—The Ganges canal.—The visionary attorney.— Idolatry in Hindoostan and Bengal.— Chowbeypore.— Mera-ka-serai.— Kanouge.—Buddha’s tooth there in former times.—The ancient Hindoo citadel.—The Rang-Mahal.—Hindoo and Mahomedan accounts of Kanouge criticized.—The Grand Trunk Road in the Doab.—The drought of 1860.—The famine of 1861.—Mutiny-ruins along the road. —A mango tope.—Mynporee.— Shecoabad.—The Hindoostanee and Bengalee compared.—Former insecurity and pre-sent security of travelling in the Doab.—European fugitives during the mutiny.—Ferozabad.—Field of the wreck of Hindoo independence.—Approach to Agra. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 158 CHAPTER VIII. First view of Agra.—A Jumna sandbank.—Feizi.—The Gool-fushun and Charbagh of Baber.—The Etmad-ud-Dowla.— Fort of Agra.—Darsan Darwaza, or Gate of Sights.—The Lallah host. —Young Hindoostan’s parlour.—Excursion to the fort.—Umra Sing Ka fatuck.—Dewani-khas.—Sheesha Mahl, or Hall of Mirrors.—Akber’s harem.—Mogulfancy fairs. —The Phanseghur.— Dewanni- aum.— Mootee Musjeed.— Shah Jehan’s bath.—Jehangeer’s drinking-cup.— Great gun of Agra.—The Taj.—Its story.—Its architect.—Commemorative poems.—The public works of the Hindoos, the Mahomedans, and the English in India.—Taj gardens.—Antiquity of Agra.—Description of, by Jehangeer.—The Agra of 1860. —Its Chowk.—Varieties of its population.—Peculiarities of the Hindoostanees.—The Agra college.—Memorials of British rule at Agra.— Hindoostanee opinion of the Income Tax. .. .. .. 200 INTRODUCTION. ‘THE Travels of a Hindoo,’ by Baboo Bholanauth Chunder, which are now for the first time published in Europe, will be found on perusal to be among the most remarkable, and certainly among the most original, works which have hitherto appeared in connection with India. These Travels originally appeared from week to week in a Calcutta periodical entitled the Saturday Evening Englishman,’ and in that shape they soon attracted public attention. That the author was a Hindoo seemed scarcely open to question. His thoughts and expressions respecting family and social life were evidently moulded by a Hindoo training; whilst his observations and opinions, especially as regards places of pilgrimage and other matters connected with religion, were eminently Hindoo. At the same time, however, his thorough mastery of the English language, and his wonderful familiarity with English ideas and turns of thought, which could only have been obtained by an extensive course of English reading, appear to have led some to suspect that after all the real knight-errant might prove to be a European in the disguise of a Hindoo. The present writer has been requested by Baboo Bholanauth Chunder to introduce his Travels to the English public; and accordingly considers it desirable in the first place to assure the reader that the Baboo is a veritable Hindoo, and the author of the entire work. The writer of this introduction has not added or altered a single line or word; and is given to understand that the Baboo has derived no literary assistance whatever from any one, whether Native or European. The Baboo has given his solemn assurance that he is the sole author
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Aqueduct Racetrack Is “The Big Race Place”
    Table of Contents Chapter 1: Welcome to The New York Racing Association ......................................................3 Chapter 2: My NYRA by Richard Migliore ................................................................................6 Chapter 3: At Belmont Park, Nothing Matters but the Horse and the Test at Hand .............7 Chapter 4: The Belmont Stakes: Heartbeat of Racing, Heartbeat of New York ......................9 Chapter 5: Against the Odds, Saratoga Gets a Race Course for the Ages ............................11 Chapter 6: Day in the Life of a Jockey: Bill Hartack - 1964 ....................................................13 Chapter 7: Day in the Life of a Jockey: Taylor Rice - Today ...................................................14 Chapter 8: In The Travers Stakes, There is No “Typical” .........................................................15 Chapter 9: Our Culture: What Makes Us Special ....................................................................18 Chapter 10: Aqueduct Racetrack is “The Big Race Place” .........................................................20 Chapter 11: NYRA Goes to the Movies .......................................................................................22 Chapter 12: Building a Bright Future ..........................................................................................24 Contributors ................................................................................................................26 Chapter 1 Welcome to The New York Racing Association On a
    [Show full text]
  • 420 Bay Filly
    Hip No. Consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, Agent 420 Bay Filly Raise a Native Mr. Prospector . { Gold Digger Gulch . Rambunctious { Jameela . { Asbury Mary Bay Filly . Northern Dancer February 1, 2003 Storm Bird . { South Ocean {Midway Squall . Best Turn (1991) { Oh So Precious . { Amathea By GULCH (1984), champion, $3,095,521. Sire of 14 crops, 56 black type wnrs, $34,524,026, including Thunder Gulch ($2,915,086, champion, Kentucky Derby [G1], etc.), Wallenda [G1] ($1,205,929), The Cliff’s Edge [G1] (to 3, 2004, $1,265,258), Esteemed Friend [G2] ($805,237), Nayef [G1], Nasty Storm [G2] ($754,157), Golden Gear, Scrimshaw. 1st dam MIDWAY SQUALL, by Storm Bird. Unraced. Dam of 6 other foals of racing age, 5 to race, including a 3-year-old of 2005, four winners-- SQUALL CITY (f. by Carson City). 4 wins at 2 and 3, $173,190, La Habra S. [L] (SA, $65,790), 3rd Corona H. [L] (HOL, $8,400). Storm’n Eddy (c. by Woodman). 2 wins at 3, $108,890. Juniper Springs (f. by Wekiva Springs). Winner at 5, $56,620. Itchetucknee (c. by Carson City). Winner at 4, 2004, $25,043. 2nd dam OH SO PRECIOUS, by Best Turn. 4 wins at 3, $135,048, Jersey Belle S. [L] (GS, $42,900), 2nd Comely S. [G3], Bay Meadows Debutante S. (BM, $8,000). Dam of 4 foals to race, 3 winners, including-- Plum Thicket. 3 wins at 4, $43,287. Producer. Validator. 2 wins at 3, $34,538. 3rd dam AMATHEA, by Iron Ruler. 8 wins at 2 and 3, $105,802, Auld Lang Syne H., 2nd Market Basket S., 3rd Paris Pike S., Marion H.
    [Show full text]
  • Bob Baffert, Five Others Enter Hall of Fame
    FREE SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S T COMPLIMENTS OF T !2!4/'! O L T IA H C E E 4HE S SP ARATOGA Year 9 • No. 15 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Friday, August 14, 2009 Head of the Class Bob Baffert, five others enter Hall of Fame Inside F Hall of Famer profiles Racing UK F Today’s entries and handicapping PPs Inside F Dynaski, Mother Russia win stakes DON’T BOTHER CHECKING THE PHOTO, THE WINNER IS ALWAYS THE SAME. YOU WIN. You win because that it generates maximum you love explosive excitement. revenue for all stakeholders— You win because AEG’s proposal including you. AEG’s proposal to upgrade Aqueduct into a puts money in your pocket world-class destination ensuress faster than any other bidder, tremendous benefits for you, thee ensuring the future of thorough- New York Racing Associationn bred racing right here at home. (NYRA), and New York Horsemen, Breeders, and racing fans. THOROUGHBRED RACING MUSEUM. AEG’s Aqueduct Gaming and Entertainment Facility will have AEG’s proposal includes a Thoroughbred Horse Racing a dazzling array Museum that will highlight and inform patrons of the of activities for VLT REVENUE wonderful history of gaming, dining, VLT OPERATION the sport here in % retail, and enter- 30 New York. tainment which LOTTERY % AEG The proposed Aqueduct complex will serve as a 10 will bring New world-class gaming and entertainment destination. DELIVERS. Yorkers and visitors from the Tri-State area and beyond back RACING % % AEG is well- SUPPORT 16 44 time and time again for more fun and excitement.
    [Show full text]
  • Landscaping India: from Colony to Postcolony
    Syracuse University SURFACE English - Dissertations College of Arts and Sciences 8-2013 Landscaping India: From Colony to Postcolony Sandeep Banerjee Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/eng_etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, Geography Commons, and the South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Banerjee, Sandeep, "Landscaping India: From Colony to Postcolony" (2013). English - Dissertations. 65. https://surface.syr.edu/eng_etd/65 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts and Sciences at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in English - Dissertations by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ABSTRACT Landscaping India investigates the use of landscapes in colonial and anti-colonial representations of India from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth centuries. It examines literary and cultural texts in addition to, and along with, “non-literary” documents such as departmental and census reports published by the British Indian government, popular geography texts and text-books, travel guides, private journals, and newspaper reportage to develop a wider interpretative context for literary and cultural analysis of colonialism in South Asia. Drawing of materialist theorizations of “landscape” developed in the disciplines of geography, literary and cultural studies, and art history, Landscaping India examines the colonial landscape as a product of colonial hegemony, as well as a process of constructing, maintaining and challenging it. In so doing, it illuminates the conditions of possibility for, and the historico-geographical processes that structure, the production of the Indian nation.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Book
    "We do not to aspire be historians, we simply profess to our readers lay before some curious reminiscences illustrating the manners and customs of the people (both Britons and Indians) during the rule of the East India Company." @h£ iooi #ld Jap €f Being Curious Reminiscences During the Rule of the East India Company From 1600 to 1858 Compiled from newspapers and other publications By W. H. CAREY QUINS BOOK COMPANY 62A, Ahiritola Street, Calcutta-5 First Published : 1882 : 1964 New Quins abridged edition Copyright Reserved Edited by AmARENDRA NaTH MOOKERJI 113^tvS4 Price - Rs. 15.00 . 25=^. DISTRIBUTORS DAS GUPTA & CO. PRIVATE LTD. 54-3, College Street, Calcutta-12. Published by Sri A. K. Dey for Quins Book Co., 62A, Ahiritola at Express Street, Calcutta-5 and Printed by Sri J. N. Dey the Printers Private Ltd., 20-A, Gour Laha Street, Calcutta-6. /n Memory of The Departed Jawans PREFACE The contents of the following pages are the result of files of old researches of sexeral years, through newspapers and hundreds of volumes of scarce works on India. Some of the authorities we have acknowledged in the progress of to we have been indebted for in- the work ; others, which to such as formation we shall here enumerate ; apologizing : — we may have unintentionally omitted Selections from the Calcutta Gazettes ; Calcutta Review ; Travels Selec- Orlich's Jacquemont's ; Mackintosh's ; Long's other Calcutta ; tions ; Calcutta Gazettes and papers Kaye's Malleson's Civil Administration ; Wheeler's Early Records ; Recreations; East India United Service Journal; Asiatic Lewis's Researches and Asiatic Journal ; Knight's Calcutta; India.
    [Show full text]
  • JOB CHARNOCK the Founder of Calcutta
    librarian Vttarpara Joykti^hmi Public Llbraif Govt. of Wat Bctjaa) JOB CHARNOCK The Founder of Calcutta (In Facts <6 Fiction) An Anthology Compiled bjt P. THANKAPPAN NAIR Distributors CALCUTTA OLD BOOK STALL 9, Shyama Charan De Street CALCUTTA-700073 7 First Published in 1977 Text Printed by Mohammed Ayub Ansari at Shahnaz Printing & Stationery Works, 2/H/16 Radha Gobindo Saha Lane, Calcutta-70001 Cover and Illustrations printed at Engineering Times Printing Press, 35 Chittaranjan Avenue Calcutta 700012 Published by E. H. Tippoo for Engineering Times Publications Private Ltd. Wachel Molla Mansion, 8 Lenin Sarani, C alcuita-700072 Price : Rs. 30 00 ' CONTENTS Preface PART I -JOB CHARNOCK - IN FACTS I. A Portrait of Job Charnock .... 1 P . Thankappan Nair 2. Job Charnock ... 60 Philip Woodruff 3 . Job Charnock 68 G. W. Forrest 4. Job Charnock Founds Calcutta .... 90 Arnold Wright 5. Portrait of Job Charnock .... 107 From Calcutta Review 1 6. Charnock and Chutianutti ... 113 J. C. Marshman 7. Charnock’s Character ... 115 W. K. Firminger 8, Governor Job Charnock .... 122 From Bengal Obituary 9. Charnock in D.N.B. ... 125 ... 131 10. Job Charnock’s Hindu Wife : A Rescued Sati Hari Charan Biswas 11. Some Historical Myths ... ... 137 Wilma! Corfield 12. W. K. Firminger’s Note on Mr. Biswas’s preceding article ... 141 13. Job Charnock’s Visit to ,Fort St. George & Baptism of his Children — • • • 143 Frank Penny Vi ( ) H Job Charnock - His Parentage and Will 151 Sir R. C. Temple 15 Job Charnock, the Founder of Calcutta, and the Armenian Controversy .... ... 164 H. W . B. Moreno 19.
    [Show full text]
  • Sustainable Flows Between Kolkata and Its Peri-Urban Interface Challenges and Opportunities
    2 Sustainable flows between Kolkata and its peri-urban interface Challenges and opportunities Jenia Mukherjee Introduction That over half of humanity now lives in towns and cities is the most complex socio-economic phenomenon of the twenty-first century. In slightly over two dec- ades, from 2010 to 2030, another 1.5 billion people will be added to the popula- tion of cities; by 2030 that fraction will be increased to 60 per cent.1 Although urbanization has occurred since ancient times in human history, the most impor- tant ways in which the urbanization processes today are different from urban transformations of the past include the scale, the rate, and the shifting geography of urbanization (Seto et al. 2013: 4). Urban growth in the coming decades will take place primarily in Asia (China and India in particular) and Africa (especially Nigeria). The developing world has already entered into the high-growth, rapid- transition phase of the urbanization process, marked by numerous problems and challenges including the swelling of slums and squatter settlements; lack of city- wide infrastructures for services such as housing, health and sanitation; privatiza- tion and commercialization of infrastructures; city development plans based on the logic of foreign capital; the widening gap between the rich and the poor; and the changing nature of the rural–urban divide. Scholars argue that one of the crucial aspects of the contemporary urbanization process in the developing world is the emergence of what is defined as the ‘peri- urban’ or semi-urban interface, where rural and urban features tend to coexist increasingly within cities and beyond their limits (Allen et al.
    [Show full text]
  • Alibhai-GB (By Hyperion-GB, 1938) – Determine (1954) Alydar (By
    SIRES Pioneerof the Nile (by Empire Maker, 2006) – American Pharoah (2015) Polish Navy (by Danzig, 1984) – Sea Hero (1993) +Ponder (by Pensive, 1946) – Needles (1956) Alibhai-GB (by Hyperion-GB, 1938) – Determine (1954) Pretendre-GB (by Doutelle-GB, 1963) – Canonero II (1971) Alydar (by Raise a Native, 1975) – Alysheba (1987) & Strike the Gold (1991) Quiet American (by Fappiano, 1986) – Real Quiet (1998) At the Threshold (by Norcliffe-CAN, 1981) – Lil E. Tee (1992) Raise a Native (by Native Dancer, 1961) – Majestic Prince (1969) Australian-GB (by West Australian-GB, 1858) – Baden-Baden (1877) Reform (by Leamington-GB, 1871) – Azra (1892) Birdstone (by Grindstone, 2001) – Mine That Bird (2009) +Reigh Count (by Sunreigh-GB, 1925) – Count Fleet (1943) Black Toney (by Peter Pan, 1911) – Black Gold (1924) & Brokers Tip (1933) Royal Coinage (by Eight Thirty, 1952) – Venetian Way (1960) Blenheim II-GB (by Blandford-IRE, 1927) – Whirlaway (1941) & Jet Pilot (1947) Royal Gem II-AUS (by Dhoti-GB, 1942) – Dark Star (1953) Bob Miles (by Pat Malloy, 1881) – Manuel (1899) @Runnymede (by Voter-GB, 1908) – Morvich (1922) Bodemeister (by Empire Maker, 2009) – Always Dreaming (2017) Saggy (by Swing and Sway, 1945) – Carry Back (1961) Bold Bidder (by Bold Ruler, 1962) – Cannonade (1974) & Spectacular Bid (1979) Scat Daddy (by Johannesburg, 2004) – Justify (2018) Bold Commander (by Bold Ruler, 1960) – Dust Commander (1970) Sea King-GB (by Persimmon-GB, 1905) – Paul Jones (1920) Bold Reasoning (by Boldnesian, 1968) – Seattle Slew (1977) +Seattle Slew (by Bold Reasoning, 1974) – Swale (1984) Bold Ruler (by Nasrullah-GB, 1954) – Seattle Slew (1973) Silver Buck (by Buckpasser, 1978) – Silver Charm (1997) +Bold Venture (by St.
    [Show full text]
  • Justifications of Empire in the Fiction of British India
    University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Honors Program in History (Senior Honors Theses) Department of History 4-20-2007 The White Author's Burden: Justifications of Empire in the Fiction of British India Leslie M. Reich University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/hist_honors Part of the History Commons Reich, Leslie M., "The White Author's Burden: Justifications of Empire in the Fiction of British India" (2007). Honors Program in History (Senior Honors Theses). 4. https://repository.upenn.edu/hist_honors/4 A Senior Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in History. Faculty Advisor: Lisa Mitchell This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/hist_honors/4 For more information, please contact [email protected]. The White Author's Burden: Justifications of Empire in the Fiction of British India Abstract The White Author’s Burden: Justifications of Empire in the Fiction of British India identifies a transformation in Anglo-Indian literature by exploring various fictional works (including novels, short stories, and poems) written by British authors between 1800 and 1924. Before 1857 (the year of the widespread Indian Rebellions that challenged British rule), Anglo-Indian literature focused exclusively on British life in India. Interactions with Indians were minimal, if present at all. After this date, however, British authors began to portray India and Indians almost entirely in ways that justified their own rule. This shift in the literature suggests that the British felt a new need to justify their empire. This thesis focuses on three literary themes offered by British authors that served to legitimize British rule in India in the second half of the nineteenth century: (1) the state of Indian women; (2) the alleged rivalry between Hindus and Muslims; and (3) the perceived incompetence of educated Indians for political rule.
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter Vi the Occupants of Government House
    CHAPTER VI THE OCCUPANTS OF GOVERNMENT HOUSE Before giving a list of the occupants of Government House since it was first erected it would be desirable to set out briefly the various changes there have been in the ruler ship of Bengal and India since the beginning of British power. The oldest British Settlement in India is that of Fort St. George, Madras, the next being Bombay. The first British factories in Bengal were established in 1633 and from that date to 1700 the Bengal establishment was subordinate to Madras except for a period of two years between 1682 and 1684 when William Hodges was appointed independent Governor of Bengal. Bengal was made a Presidency in 1699 and the period of permanent independent Governors of Bengal started in 1700, the first being Job Charnock’s son-in-law. Sir Charles Eyre and the title that was held till 1774 was President in the Bay and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fort William in Bengal for the United East India Company. From 1699 therefore there were three Presidencies Madras, Bombay and Bengal, each of which, governed by a President or Governor with a Council, was entirely independent of the others and subordinate only to the Directors in London. The Trend of events happened to make Bengal, though the most junior in creation, the most important of the three politically, and by Lord North’s Regulating Act of 1773 the Governor of Fort William was given control over the other two Presidencies, his supremacy being indicated by a change of title to Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.
    [Show full text]
  • Trainers, Kentucky Derby (1898-2017)
    TRAINERS, KENTUCKY DERBY (1898-2017) Most Wins Trainer Derby Span Sts. 1st 2nd 3rd Kentucky Derby Wins Ben “Plain Ben” Jones 1938-1952 11 6 2 1 Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (’41), Pensive (’44), Citation (’48), Ponder (’49) & Hill Gail (’52) Herbert J. “Derby Dick” Thompson 1920-1937 26 4 3 1 Behave Yourself (1921), Bubbling Over (’26), Burgoo King (’32) & Brokers Tip (’33) D. Wayne Lukas 1981-2015 48 4 1 5 Winning Colors (1988), Thunder Gulch (’95), Grindstone (’96) & Charismatic (’99) Bob Baffert 1996-2016 27 4 3 3 Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (’98), War Emblem (2002) & American Pharoah (’15) James “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons 1930-1957 11 3 1 0 Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (’35) & Johnstown (’39) Max Hirsch 1915-1951 14 3 0 2 Bold Venture (1936), Assault (’46) & Middleground (’50) *James “Jimmy” Rowe Sr. n/a-1925 18 2 1 1 Hindoo (1881) & Regret (1915) Jimmy Jones 1956-1958 4 2 1 0 Iron Liege (1957) & Tim Tam (’58) Horatio Luro 1960-1981 4 2 0 1 Decidedly (1962) & Northern Dancer-CAN (’64) Henry Forrest 1966-1968 2 2 0 0 Kauai King (1966) & Forward Pass (’68) Lucien Laurin 1966-1973 5 2 0 1 Riva Ridge (1972) & Secretariat (’73) Laz Barrera 1976-1990 5 2 0 0 Bold Forbes (1976) & Affirmed (’78) LeRoy Jolley 1962-1992 13 2 2 1 Foolish Pleasure (1975) & Genuine Risk (’80) Woody Stephens 1949-1988 14 2 3 3 Cannonade (1974) & Swale (’84) Charlie Whittingham 1958-1996 7 2 1 0 Ferdinand (1986) & Sunday Silence (’89) Nick Zito 1990-2015 26 2 1 0 Strike the Gold (1991) & Go for Gin (’94) Carl Nafzger 1990-2007 3 2 0 0 Unbridled (1990) & Street Sense (2007) Doug O’Neill 2007-2017 6 2 0 0 I’ll Have Another (2012) & Nyquist (’16) Todd Pletcher 2000-2017 48 2 2 3 Super Saver (2010) & Always Dreaming (’17) Most Starts Trainer Derby Span Sts.
    [Show full text]
  • 2020 Culberson Cad Certified Mineral Roll (Pdf)
    CULBERSON COUNTY APPR DIST JOB NUMBER: 505500 MINERAL APPRAISAL ROLL FOR THE YEAR 2020 (MINERALS, MINERAL RELATED REAL & PERSONAL, AND INDUSTRIAL/UTILITY PROPERTIES) ALPHA SEQUENCE DATE: 7/08/2020 VOLUME 1 OF ___ PRITCHARD & ABBOTT INC SELECT JOB: 505500 CULBERSON COUNTY APPR DIST REPORT YEAR: 2020 SELECT JSC: SELECT OWNER RANGE: 1 TO 9999999 INCLUDE PROTEST VALUE: N SELECT OWNER REND CODE: A SELECT USER OWNER CODE: A SELECT INCLUDE D/OS: Y SELECT LEASE RANGE: 1 TO 9999999 SELECT USER D/O CODE: A SELECT D/O ZERO VALUES: N SELECT LSE HEADER CODE: A SELECT INV. NON-PROD: Y SELECT INV. PERSONNAL: Y SELECT INV. REAL: Y SELECT INV. TEA CODE: SELECT INV. USER CODE: A SELECT INV. COMPLIANCE CODE: SELECT JUR TO PRINT: 00 SELECT MINIMUM OWNER: 0000 INCLUDE PRIVATE ADDRESSES: Y SELECT PRINT VALUES: Y SELECT PRINT LEASE#: Y PRINT TOP 20 RECAP: N SELECT NUMBER COPIES: 1 PRITCHARD & ABBOTT INC * PRITCHARD & ABBOTT INC APPRAISAL ROLL CULBERSON COUNTY APPR DIST JOB - 505500 7/08/2020 PAGE 1 MXLT88WN OWN/ACCT/SEQ NAME AND ADDRESS LEASE# PROPERTY DESCRIPTION OPERATOR/JURISDICTION VALUE 701899 A T LAND COMPANY LLC 11541 AT LANDS STATE UNIT .062500 RI -- APR OPERATING LLC 63,610 11270/00001 2800 POST OAK BLVD STE 5850 G1 PSL CALDWELL CM BLK52 S4 00-01-30-60 HOUSTON TX 77056 A-6442 700848 ACE IN THE HOLE INC 11113 HARRIER 10 .125000 RI -- RING ENERGY 34,550 02777/00001 2671 COUNTY ROAD 41 G1 T2S BLK 58 SEC 10 A-17 00-01-30-60 SUDAN TX 79371-6817 T&P RR/ALLEN J T 701051 ACE IN THE HOLE INC 11298 EVERYTHINGS BIGGER WC .174957 RI -- CONOCOPHILLIPS CO 8,390 04312/00001
    [Show full text]