Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

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Author：William Sleeman
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Chapter 48 of Volume I, have been removed, and inserted in their proper place at the end of Chapter 47; and the supplementary notes printed at the end of the second volume of the original edition have been brought up to the positions which they were intended to occupy. Chapters 37 to 46 of the first volume, describing the contest for empire between the sons of Shah Jahan, are in substance only a free version of Bernier"s work ent.i.tled, _The Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogol_.
Chapter 14 of vol. 2 of the _Rambles and Recollections_ in the original edition, corresponding to Chapter 7 of the edition of 1893, and Chapter 62 of this (1915) edition. No contributions by the author of later date than the above to any periodical have been traced. In a letter dated Lucknow, 12th January, 1853 (_Journey,_ vol. 2, p. 390) the author says-"I was asked by Dr.
Chapter 3
Chapter 27.
Chapter 1. The Bhagavata Purana is the most popular of the Puranas, The Hindi version of the tenth book (_skandha_) is known as the "Prem Sagar". The date of the composition of the Puranas is uncertain.
Chapter 1, _ante_, [13]. The prophecy was much talked of some years ago, but the reverence for the Ganges continues undiminished, while the development of commerce and manufactures has not affected, the religious feelings and opinions of the people. Railways, in fact, facilitate pilgrimages and increase their popularity. The course of commerce now follows the line of rail, not the navigable rivers. The author, when writing this book, evidently never contemplated the possibility of railway construction in India. Later in life, in 1852, he fully appreciated the value of the new means of communication (_Journey_, ii, 370, &c.).
Chapter 21, _post_.
Chapter 19, _post_.
Chapter 1, note 3.
Chapter 1, paragraph 1. It is written Beragur in the author"s text. The author, in _Ramaseeana_, Introduction, p. 77, note, describes the Gauri- Sankar sculpture as being "at Beragur on the Nerbudda river".
Chapter 47). The land-revenue law and the law concerning the relations between landlords and tenants have now been more or less successfully codified in each province. Mr. B. H. Baden-Powell"s encyclopaedic work _The Land Systems of British India_ (3 volumes: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892) gives very full information concerning Indian tenures as now existing, and the law applicable to them at the date of publication.
Chapter 9.
Chapter 13
Chapter VIII of _Ball"s Economic Geology of India_ gives full information concerning the iron mines of the Central Provinces and all parts of India. That work forms Part III of the _Manual of the Geology of India_.
Chapter 8, note 8.
Chapter 4 and Chapter 8, for cases of sati (suttees). For a good account of the suttee discussions and legislation, see D. Boulger, _Lord William Bentinck_ (1897), chap. v, in "Rulers of India" Series. No other biography of Lord William Bentinck exists.
Chapter 5, Note [3].
Chapter 16, note 6. The name is here erroneously printed "Dhamoree" in the author"s text.
Chapter 14, note 16.
Chapter 19, _ante_, note 9. In the Maratha country the "household G.o.ds" generally comprise five sacred symbols, namely, the _salagrama_ stone of Vishnu, the _bana-linga_ of Siva, a metallic stone representing the female principle in nature (Sakti), a crystal representing the sun, and a red stone representing Ganesh, the remover of obstacles. The details of the tiresome ritual observed in the worship of these objects occupy pp. 412 to 416 of Monier Williams"s _Religious Thought and Life in India_.
Chapter 14, _ante_.
Chapter 24, following note [4].
Chapter 19 note [15].
Chapter 10, see text before note [10].) that the same rule applied in his time to the small agricultural holdings in the Sagar and Nerbudda territories.
Chapter 26, note 6.
Chapter 34, _post_.
Chapter 25, _ante_, note 7.
Chapter 76, _post_. The old emperor"s pension was one hundred thousand rupees a month. The events of the Mutiny effected a considerable clearance, though the number of persons claiming relationship with the royal house is still large. A few of these have taken service under the British Government, but have not distinguished themselves.
Chapter 23, note 14), but is much less frequent than it used to be in the author"s days.
Chapter 14 note 7, Chapter 24 note 6, on the formation of black cotton soil. The Gwalior plain is covered with this soil.
Chapter 31
Chapter 10, notes 10, 16. The gradual conversion of tenure by leases from Government into proprietary right in land has brought the land under the operation of the ordinary Hindoo law, and each member of a joint family can now enforce part.i.tion of the land as well as of the stock upon it. The evils resulting from incessant part.i.tion are obvious, but no remedy can be devised. The people insist on part.i.tion, and will effect it privately, if the law imposes obstacles to a formal public division.
Chapter 47, to which they have been removed in this edition.
Chapter 70.
Chapter 35
Chapter 5 _ante_): "Abu Hurairah said, "Verily there are ninety-nine names for G.o.d; and whoever counts them shall enter into paradise. He is Allaho, than which there is no other; Al-Rahman-ul- Rahimo, the compa.s.sionate and merciful," &c., &c." (Matthews, vol. i, p. 542.) The list is reproduced in the introduction to Palmer"s translation of the Koran, and in Bosworth-Smith, _Muhammad and Muhammadanism_.
Chapter 2, text following [8]. The quotation is from Part III, chap. 19, p. 35 of _The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot, now made English. London, Printed in the year MDCLx.x.xVII_. The author, in his quotation, omits between "that" and "The Dutch" the clause "This indeed is certain that there are few Heathens and Parsis in respect of Mahometans there, and these surpa.s.s all the other sects in power as they do in number."
Chapter 38
Chapter 53 text between [2] and [3].
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 25. Books on anthropology cite many instances of deaths caused by superst.i.tious fears.
Chapter 45
Chapter 27, where three explanations are offered, namely, the eating of beef, the prevalence of adultery, and the impiety of surveys.
Chapter 69.
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 75 _post_ is devoted to the history of the Begam Samru (Sumroo). The "great street" is the celebrated Chandni Chauk, a very wide thoroughfare. The branch of the ca.n.a.l which runs down the middle of it is now covered over. The Begam"s house is now occupied by the Delhi Bank (Fanshawe, p, 49).
Chapter 48.) The decisive battle between Dara Shikoh, on the one aide, and Aurangzeb, supported by his brother and dupe, Murad Baksh, on the other, was fought on the 28th May, 1658 [O. S.], at the small village of Samugarh (Samogar), four miles from Agra. Dara Shikoh was winning the battle, when a traitor persuaded him to come down from his conspicuous seat on an elephant and mount a horse. The report quickly spread that the prince had been killed. "In a few minutes", says Bernier, "the army seemed disbanded, and (strange and sudden reverse!) the conqueror became the vanquished. Aurangzeb remained during a quarter of an hour steadily on his elephant, and was rewarded with the crown of Hindustan; Dara left his own elephant a few minutes too soon, and was hurled from the pinnacle of glory, to be numbered among the most miserable of Princes; so short-sighted is man, and so mighty are the consequences which sometimes flow from the most trivial incident."
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 76, _post_.
Chapter 63
Chapter 5, [3].
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 69, which have been discussed in the notes to that chapter.
Chapter 71