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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

by W. H. Sleeman

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  1. 1Major-General Sir W. H. Sleeman, K.C.B. — Revised Annotated Edition by
  2. 2Author’s Dedication
  3. 3Editor’s Preface (1893)
  4. 4Editor’s Preface (1915)
  5. 5Memoir of Maj.-Gen. Sir William Henry Sleeman, K.C.B.
  6. 6Bibliography of the Writings of Major-General Sir W. H. Sleeman, K.…
  7. 7Comparative Table of Chapters
  8. 8Abbreviations
  9. 9Rambles and Recollections
  10. 10Chapter 2 — Hindoo System of Religion
  11. 11Chapter 3 — Legend of the Nerbudda River
  12. 12Chapter 4 — A Suttee on the Nerbudda
  13. 13Chapter 5 — Marriages of Trees — The Tank and the Plantain — Meteor…
  14. 14Chapter 6 — Hindoo Marriages
  15. 15Chapter 7 — The Purveyance System
  16. 16Chapter 8 — Religious Sects — Self-government of the Castes — Chimn…
  17. 17Chapter 9 — The Great Iconoclast — Troops Routed by Hornets — The R…
  18. 18Chapter 10 — The Peasantry and the Land Settlement
  19. 19Chapter 11 — Witchcraft
  20. 20Chapter 12 — The Silver Tree, or ‘Kalpa Briksha’ — The Singhāra or…
  21. 21Chapter 13 — Thugs and Poisoners
  22. 22Chapter 14 — Basaltic Cappings of the Sandstone Hills of Central In…
  23. 23Chapter 15 — Legend of the Sāgar Lake — Paralysis From Eating the G…
  24. 24Chapter 16 — Suttee Tombs — Insalubrity of Deserted Fortresses
  25. 25Chapter 17 — Basaltic Cappings — Interview With a Native Chief — A…
  26. 26Chapter 18 — Birds’ Nests — Sports of Boyhood
  27. 27Chapter 19 — Feeding Pilgrims — Marriage of a Stone With a Shrub
  28. 28Chapter 20 — The Men-Tigers
  29. 29Chapter 21 — Burning of Deorī by a Freebooter — A Suttee
  30. 30Chapter 22 — Interview With the Rājā Who Marries the Stone to the S…
  31. 31Chapter 23 — The Rājā of Orchhā — Murder of His Many Ministers
  32. 32Chapter 24 — Corn Dealers — Scarcities — Famines in India
  33. 33Chapter 25 — Epidemic Diseases — Scape-goat
  34. 34Chapter 26 — Artificial Lakes in Bundēlkhand — Hindoo, Greek, and R…
  35. 35Chapter 27 — Blights
  36. 36Chapter 28 — Pestle-and-Mortar Sugar-Mills — Washing Away of the Soil
  37. 37Chapter 29 — Interview With the Chiefs of Jhānsī — Disputed Succession
  38. 38Chapter 30 — Haunted Villages
  39. 39Chapter 31 — Interview With the Rājā of Datiyā — Fiscal Errors of S…
  40. 40Chapter 32 — Sporting at Datiyā — Fidelity of Followers to Their Ch…
  41. 41Chapter 33
  42. 42Chapter 34 — The Suicide — Relations Between Parents and Children i…
  43. 43Chapter 35 — Gwālior Plain Once the Bed of a Lake — Tameness of Pea…
  44. 44Chapter 36 — Gwālior and Its Government
  45. 45Chapter 37 — Content for Empire Between the Sons of Shāh Jahān
  46. 46Chapter 38 · Chapter 39 · Chapter 40 · Chapter 41 · Chapter 42 · Ch…
  47. 47Chapter 48 — The Great Diamond of Kohinūr
  48. 48Chapter 49 — Pindhārī System — Character of the Marāthā Administrat…
  49. 49Chapter 50 — Dhōlpur, Capital of the Jāt Chiefs of Gohad — Conseque…
  50. 50Chapter 51 — Influence of Electricity on Vegetation — Agra and Its…
  51. 51Chapter 52 — Nūr Jahān, the Aunt of the Empress Nūr Mahal, Over Who…
  52. 52Chapter 53 — Father Gregory’s Notion of the Impediments to Conversi…
  53. 53Chapter 54 — Fathpur-Sīkrī — The Emperor Akbar’s Pilgrimage — Birth…
  54. 54Chapter 55 — Bharatpur — Dīg — Want of Employment for the Military…
  55. 55Chapter 56 — Govardhan, the Scene of Krishna’s Dalliance With the M…
  56. 56Chapter 57 — Veracity
  57. 57Chapter 58 — Declining Fertility of the Soil — Popular Notion of th…
  58. 58Chapter 59 — Concentration of Capital and Its Effects
  59. 59Chapter 60 — Transit Duties in India — Mode of Collecting Them
  60. 60Chapter 61 — Peasantry of India Attached to No Existing Government…
  61. 61Chapter 62 — Public Spirit of the Hindoos — Tree Cultivation and Su…
  62. 62Chapter 63 — Cities and Towns, Formed by Public Establishments, Dis…
  63. 63Chapter 64 — Murder of Mr. Fraser, and Execution of the Nawāb Shams…
  64. 64Chapter 65 — Marriage of a Jāt Chief
  65. 65Chapter 66 — Collegiate Endowment of Muhammadan Tombs and Mosques
  66. 66Chapter 67 — The Old City of Delhi
  67. 67Chapter 68 — New Delhi, or Shāhjahānābād
  68. 68Chapter 69 — Indian Police — Its Defects — And Their Cause and Remedy
  69. 69Chapter 70 — Rent-free Tenures — Right of Government to Resume Such…
  70. 70Chapter 71 — The Station of Meerut — ‘Atālīs’ Who Dance and Sing Gr…
  71. 71Chapter 72 — Subdivisions of Lands — Want of Gradations of Rank — T…
  72. 72Chapter 73 — Meerut — Anglo-Indian Society
  73. 73Chapter 74 — Pilgrims of India
  74. 74Chapter 75 — The Bēgam Sumroo
  75. 75Chapter 76 — On the Spirit of Military Discipline in the Native Arm…
  76. 76Chapter 77 — Invalid Establishment
  77. 77Appendix
  78. 78Additions and Corrections

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