Journal Of A Tour In India

The author reveals that a British Sage has pronounced that every man, who will take the trouble of describing in simple language the scenes of which he has been a spectator, can afford an instructive and amusing narrative. No such public spirited motive, however, influenced the pen or pencil of the writer of the following pages. He has simply described scenes and characters as they appeared incidents as they occurred, and anecdotes as they were related to him. The number of engravings being necessarily restricted, he has for the most part selected those bearing on Indian sporting, as presenting more of novelty to the English eye than the more hackneyed subjects of landscape. This book is the reminiscences of the writer, who was a British Officer in India. This account is of his tour of upper India with the then commander-in-chief, who was on inspection of military stations in Upper India. The work is from the end of 1827 and goes up to April 1830. The book is ripe with anecdotes and the record of daily observances of the natives. Description of people, monuments, religious rites, hunting, camp-Life all form to make very amusing and interested reading. The Scope of the geography is wide. From their start at Calcutta the narrative passes through Allahabad, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Agra, Mathura, Delhi, Sirhind, Patiala, Haridwar, Nahan, Subhatu, Shimla, Narkanda, Rohilkuand, Moradabad, Gwalior, Bundelkhand, Benaras, Patna, Puri among others. The book has 26 illustrations and 1 map. This book is a reprint of the 1858.