India IN 1880

This book presents briefly to the world the results of an experience extending over nearly thirty years in India. Chapters II. and III., on the objects of beauty in nature and in art, also Chapter XXIII., on wild animals and sports, Chapters V., XXIV., XXV., and XXVI., on the Native States, the naval defences, the army, the foreign relations, and the conclusion, may furnish some help to those who patriotically reflect on the best means of holding a widespread dominion with the strong arm of authority, of guarding this mighty heritage against danger from without, and of vindicating British rights in Asia. The eflfect of all the chapters in combination will, it is hoped, be to display the present state of the Indian empire, its elements of security, its prospects of danger, its sources of weakness, its basis of ultimate prosperity.