Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

1. Pindaree system. Character of the Mahratta administration. Causes of their dislike to the paramount power; 2. Dholepore, capital of the Jat chiefs of Gohud. Consequence of obstacles to the prosecution of robbers; 3. Influence of electricity on vegetation. Agra and its buildings; 4. Noor Jehan, the aunt of the Empress Noor Bahul, over whose remains the Taj is built; 5. Father Gregory's notion of the impediments to conversion in India. Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern languages; 6. Futtehpore Secree. The Emperor Akbar's pilgrimage. Birth of Jehangeer; 7. Bhurtpore. Deeg. Want of employment for the military and the educated classes under the Company's rule; 8. Goverdhun, the scene of Krishna's dalliance with the milkmaids; 9. Veracity; 10. Declining fertility of the soil. Popular notion of the cause; 11. Concentration of capital, and its effects; 12. Transit duties in India. Mode of collecting them; 13. Peasantry of India attached to no existing government. Want of trees in Upper India. Cause and consequence. Wells and groves; 14. Public spirit of the Hindoos. Tree cultivation, and suggestion for extending it; 15. Cities and towns, formed by public establishments, disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their abodes; 16. Murder of Mr. Fraser, and execution of the Nowab Shumshoodeen; 17. Marriage of a Jât chief; 18. Collegiate endowment of Mahomedan tombs and mosques; 19. The old city of Delhi; 20. New Delhi, or Shah Jehanabad; 21. Indian police. Its defects, and their cause and remedy; 22. Rent-free tenures. Right of Government to resume such grants; 23. The station of Meerut. Atalees who dance and sing gratis for the benefit of the poor; 24. Subdivision of lands. Want of gradations of rank. Taxes; 25. Meerut. Anglo-Indian society; 26. Pilgrims in India; 27. The Begum Sumroo; 28. On the spirit of military discipline in the native army of India; 29. Invalid establishment.