british raj (16 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 44 pages. Adam Phillips "Commanded to Mourn" / R W Johnson "The Greatest Error of Modern History" / Brendan Simms "One Good Side" / Penelope Fitzgerald "Nuthouse Al" / Peter Clarke "On the Blower" / Wendy Doniger "Mae West and the British Raj" / James Davidson "Some Evil Thing" / John Banville "All Antennae" / James Francken "Pure TNT" / David Craig "It makes yer head go" / Terence Hawkes "Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North".

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Unbound pages. Condizione: Very Good. 3 pages, illustrated with black & white photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 24 x 36 cms. Category: Country Life Experience; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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The present collection reflects the state of Kipling's India during the high summer of the Raj. At the end of 1884 Lord Dufferin replaced the Earl of Ripon as Viceroy, and apart from a period of seven months between June of 1885 and January of 1886, when Lord Salisbury and the Conservatives were in power following the death of General Gordon, and Lord Randolph Churchill was Secretary of State, Gladstone and the Liberals were in power. All the items in the present collection are scarce: disregarding electronic reproduction, the only copies on JISC LHD appear to be held by the deposit libraries and UCL. Each item was printed separately, and it would appear from similar cases that the title and contents leaves were specially produced for this collection and a few others, such as that of the Bodleian. Fourteen discrete items (as evidenced by different gradations of fading) in a sturdy rebinding, in buff-coloured buckram, with reinforced hinges, and the original plum leather labels gilt laid down on the spine: 'ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS / 12' and 'VOL 49'. A total number of 782 folio pages, according to a nineteenth-century manuscript pagination. Binding and contents in good condition, although the paper of the items is discoloured and somewhat brittle, with a few closed tears here and there. Two leaves have been specially printed for the collection: one with the title and another with two pages of contents. The title reads: 'Accounts and papers: thirty-nine volumes. / - (12.) - / East India. / Session 1. - 12 January 1886 -- 25 June 1886. / Session 2. -- 5 August 1886 - 25 September 1886. / Vol. XLIX. / 1886.' In manuscript on reverse of title: 'This Book is to be preserved in the Libraries of the Home Office 1886'. 'WITHDRAWN' stamp at foot of same page. All but items 3, 10 and 12 have details printed in characteristic fashion at right angles on the reverse of the final leaf. The contents arranges the items under the following headings: Accounts (1); Home Accounts (2), Financial Statement, 1886-87 (3), Income Tax Act (4), Loans raised in England (5 and 6), Loans raised in India (7 and 8), Railways (9), East India (Progress and Condition) (10), Revenue and Expenditure (11), Silver Question (Great Britain and India) (12), Transfer of Government to Simla (13), Statement of Trade (14). The fourteen items are: ONE: '[Accounts'] Statement showing the principal Figures in the East India Accounts for 1883-84 and 1884-85, and Estimates for 1885-86 and 1886-87, with Explanations. / India Office, 11 June 1886. / J. A. Godley, / Under Secretary of State for India.' [By 'Mr. Stafford Howard'.] Printed 16 June 1886. 17 + [1] pp. TWO: '['Home Accounts'] Home Accounts of the Government of India. / [list of twelve items] / India Office, 11 May 1886. / J. A. Godley, Under Secretary of State for India.' Printed 14 May 1886. 57 + [1] pp. THREE: '['Financial Statement, 1886-87'] Indian Financial Statement for 1886-87. / India Office, 28 May 1886. / J. A. Godley, Under Secretary of State for India.' [By 'Lord George Hamilton'.] Printed 31 May 1886.' 101 pp. FOUR: '['Income Tax Act'] Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 31 May 1886; - for, / "Extracts of the Proceedings of the Council of the Governor General of India, assembled for the purpose of making Laws and Regulations, regarding the Act, No. 2, of 1886, for imposing a Tax on Income derived from other sources than Agriculture." / India Office, 3 June 1886. / J. A. Godley, Under Secretary of State for India.' [By 'Lord George Hamilton'.] Printed 4 June 1886. 85 + [1] pp. FIVE: '['Loans raised in England'] Return of all Loans raised in England, under the Provisions of any Acts of Parliament, chargeable on the Revenues of India, outstanding at the commencement of the Half-year ended on 30th September 1885; with the Rates of Interest and Total Amount payable thereon, and the Date of Termination of each Loan; the Debt incurred during the Half-year; the Moneys raised thereby duri.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Govenment Central Printing Office, Simla, India. 1906. Ex-library of Superintendent of Archaeological Survey of the Frontier Brigade with stamp present to the title page. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

The Bengal Nagpur Railway Company was formed in 1887 and continued until 1952, when it merged with the East Indian Railway Company to form the Eastern Railway. The present item is 4pp, 4to. Bifolium. Printed in small type, in double column. In good condition, lightly aged, with one central vertical fold. Excessively scarce: no other copy traced, either on WorldCat, JISC, or ViaLibri. The business of the meeting includes 'receiving the Directors' Report and Audited Statements of Accounts and Balance Sheet to 30th June, 1906, and the Auditors' Report thereon'. The chairman Sir Samuel Hoare gives details of 'new lines now under construction': 'On the Gondia-Chanda line the portion from Gondia to Nagbeer and from Nagbeer to Nagpur, a distance of 157 miles, is almost complete, and platelaying is about to commence. Earthwork has recently been started on the Nagbeer-Chanda section, length of 66 miles. It is hoped that a considerable portion of the line will be opened for traffic by March, 1908. / The work on the Purulia-Ranchi line is well advanced, [.] The construction work on the first 50 miles from Vizianagram of the Rajpur-Vizianagram line'. Other topics include 'the ghats on the Neinpur-Bilaspur Line', revenue, working expenses, gross earnings, the 'increase in coaching traffic', the 'recent opening by the Viceroy, on 6th December, of the Grand Chord Line of the East Indian Railway', the 'increase in first and second-class passenger traffic', goods traffic, the price of coal, new machinery. Hoare's 'long and interesting speech' is responded to by Martin Wood.

Rieu was the son of Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1820-1902) of Geneva, Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts at the British Museum, and elder brother of Emile Victor Rieu (1887-1972), both of whom have DNB entries. In 1947 he had privately printed (as'J. L. R.') a 'Chronicle of the Rieu Family now settled in England'. 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Folded twice. Signed 'J. L Rieu / Commissioner in Sind'. An nice sidelight on the workings of the Raj. He has been asked for a letter by 'Mr. Mansing Ramsing', on behalf of his son 'Mr. Bhojraj M. Bhambhani', and while 'not personally acquainted with the young man', Rieu has known the father for many years, and used to know the grand father, Diwan Ramsing. 'The family is a highly respectable land-owning family of the Newabshah District. Mr Mansing is an Honorary Magistrate. He is a most loyal subject, and has done much good service for Government.'.

Singh was deposed by the British in 1889, with accusations of misgovernment, disloyal dealings with the Russian Empire, and a plot to murder his brothers and the British Resident, but as this was deemed contrary to the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar he was reinstated, but with a new ruling council was forced upon him, under the supervision of the Resident. Two slips of paper cut from a letter for display in an album. Both somewhat discoloured and a little ruckled. All the writing is in the same ink, but it is not clear whether the text of the letter is in a secretarial hand. The first slip (5.5 x 10 cm) carries the valediction, with Singh's sprawling signature: 'Your most sincere friend / Pratap Singh / Maharaja'. On the other side: 'My dear Friend, / I have [.] / Whenever your kind [.] / the 5th instant, [.] / that you intend [.]'. The other slip (7.5 x 5 cm) carries the armorial letterhead and date 'The 8th June 1893'. On the other side: 'I trust that you [.] / enjoying the last of [.] / With kindest regards an[.] / I rem[.]'.

7 small water colours painted during the days of the British Raj in India which capture the spirit of an excursion taken in December 1890. A flat bottomed wooden boat manned by local men travels along a river carrying a couple in western dress, elephants emerge from the lush vegetation carrying travellers and lunch supplies, camp tents nestle among the trees, elephants take their passengers across a river and high, possibly Himalayan mountains tower over lush lowlands. All dated December 1890 and one Xmas Day 1890. An additional later image dated July 29 91 is titled 'My Ayah having a cigarette!!' Frustratingly what appears to be the name of the artist to the fore edge of several images is difficult to decipher [Gordon Youngs ?]. To the reverse of 2 paintings are additional images - a lady in western clothing fishing with a local man titled 'landing the sixteen pounder' and a black ink drawing of what must be a school scene titled 'Prize Giving Mar 10.91'. All in very good condition on high quality water colour boards; colours remain vibrant. A visual insight into an historical period with a complex history. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

One page, octavo. Very good. On paper with 'C TAYLOR' Britannia watermarked paper. Possibly an East India Company document. Of obscure meaning, headed 'List of Different Houses', and consisting of two columns (the left-hand one of sixteen lines, and the right-hand of eleven). Includes 'Moorshedabad', 'Massulipatam', 'Poona, the Money paid to Mr. Mallet', 'Ahumabad the Residency of their Correspondent's' and 'The Mahratta Army'. With 'Exd: W D' in bottom left-hand corner. Docketed on reverse of second leaf of bifolium, with reference 'No. 149. A. | Entd at Dell | " - MS'. Scan on application.

Eight witty and attractive caricatures, in a sub-Punch style. All eight in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Each in black ink on a separate piece of paper, five of them 33.5 x 21.5 cm, and three of them 21 x 17 cm. The context of the caricatures is at present obscure, but would undoubtedly make itself clear with specialist research. The five largest illustrations are: ONE: Caption: 'Please to remember | The twenty-seventh of November | The "Bilk-Powder" treason and plot'. Balding European in dress uniform, sitting on a powder barrel on which is written: 'Finest high explosives | Bilk Powder | Mahomed Arif & Co | Sole Manufacturers | Guaranteed to retain | its power even | after four years.' Barrel behind with 'ACRE | JCS' on it. TWO: Dated in bottom right-hand corner: 'after Marcus Stone II | Cannanore Dec 1913'. Same balding individual portrayed as a Regency duellist, waiting pensively with pistol in hand at a stile, as dapper figure with monocle and cane approaches. Musical phrase at foot, with words: 'Somebodys waiting for Somebody. | OLD SONG'. THREE: Caption: 'Another musical "hit" in "The Marriage Market" at Daly's | "Slippery Jack" sings a pathetic BIlk Ballad accompanied by the full band of the G.C.M.' Same balding individual on stage in cowboy costume, with marching band of Indian musicians behind him, and monocled figure peeping out from behind curtain. Musical phrase at foot with words: 'My wife will tell the Public of the way that I've been served'. FOUR: Caption: 'Ragtime in Camp | Jemadar Amwalla and The Old Atasi Troupe. | "Oooohhhh! he's just meant for kings and queens | "Dont yer ask us what he means ("Topkhanah ke awaz par tumhara dil burra hojata") | We just love that Hitchy Koo | Hitchy Koo Hitchy Koo'. Balding individual in military fatigues at back of stage, doing something akin to a Hitler salute while saying 'Kan Kholo | Bloody Monkey', while five portly Indian men (four in military unfiform) perform music, four on instruments and one singing. FIVE: Caption: 'Il Trovatore | Act 4 Scene 19 | Leonora* [* Alias "Alicemary".] from without deplores the fate of her lover and is answered from within the prison by Manrico | Manrico "Tho' for one year we sever | "Thou wilt remember me. | "In the "Madras Times", there thou wilt champion me | Alicemary mine! we part but not for ever'. The balding figure in a cell in chains, with a view of a woman through barred gothic windows behind him. The three smaller illustrations are: SIX: Dated in bottom right-hand corner 'C. | Cannanore | 1913'. Musical phrase at foot with words: 'and the truth shall ever come uppermost and justice shall be done | OLD SONG'. Regency scene featuring five Western individuals in a tavern (including monocled figure) and twittish toff outside window, stalking with a gun. SEVEN: Caption: 'Serenade | "Bilkeuse" by Il Domeni'. Balding individual in Elizabethan dress, serenades Indian figure at window: 'Bilk on, oh Bilk | Sweet Aaaaaaaarif | Oh Bilk again once more! | Bilk oooonnnn!' Two flowers fall from the window, with book titled 'ADJTS CASH ACCT'. EIGHT: Caption: 'Le Reve: the Court is closed to consider the Finding.' Five Western individuals in military dress uniform, asleep on a bench, while behind them turns a merry-go-round, with a number of western and Indian figures on the horses. The word 'J'accuse' in small letters at head, as well as '8 Shies at the CO for penny'. Sample scan (slight loss through sixe of scanner bed.

On one side of a piece of laid paper (dimensions roughly 38 x 27.5 cm) with the watermark of Jean Villedary. On aged and lightly spotted paper, with a little wear to the creases and extremities. Neatly written. Complete and entirely legible. Docketed on reverse 'Establishment of the Army's Pay in the East-Indias'. Beneath this, in light pencil, 'Kept as very curious to look at'. Can be dated from the fact that officers in the British Army, unlike those in the East India Company, did not receive batta. Divided into six columns: 'Rank'; 'Pay pr Month of 31 Days in Sonant Rupees'; 'Field Batta pr. Month in Sonnant Rupees'; 'Additional Allowance pr. Mo. in Arcot Rupees'; Total pr. Month in Sterling'; 'Total per Annum in Sterling'. Gives figures for 43 ranks from Colonel to Town Adjutant. The ranks are divided into seven classes: 'Staff in Garrison'; 'Staff Composed from Garrison'; 'Staff'; 'Cavalry'; 'Artillery'; 'Sepoy Offrs.' and 'Infantry'. Seven-line note beneath table, beginning 'N.B. Besides the above allowances each Captain has the Clothing of his own Company which produces Communibus Annis £200 more'.

Although there is no clear connection, the present unpublished poem dates from around the same time as Edward Lear was drawing watercolours in the place referred to in it. Vidya Dehejia's'Impossible Picturesqueness / Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours, 1873-1875' (1989) describes how Lear visited 'The two small hill-stations of Matheran and Mahabaleshwar near Bombay'. Of the former Lear wrote: 'Matheran by the bye, has most probably been the original Eden - I don't mean the first Lord Auckland, - but Paradise -'. More to the point, Lear was 'amused to find that Matheran had a croquet ground, 'a place set apart for Great Britainish games, and where T is made o' the evenings, and sports played.' 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Text and cartoon clear and complete, but on paper of poor condition, aged and worn with damage at head of both leaves, which are nearly detached from one another. The only evidence with regard to authorship is the fact that the paper carries a blue crest of a lion statant. First page headed: 'Lines on a picture of "Croquet at Materan" by a Cynic.' The poem is forty lines long and divided into four sections. Cultured and amusing, it is well worthy of publication. It begins: 'The gods have chosen a stifling spot / Where the ground is flat if the air is hot / The summons goes forth to nymphs and swains / "Come and play croquet on Materan plains, / and that no grace be wanting today, / The celestial band by your side shall play." / Now lead out the orses, sound "saddle and boot." / Those who can't ride may tramp it afoot. / And ladies (of course) in a "delicate state" / May consign to a tonjon their duplicate weight.' The second section reads: 'Dowdy women and shabby men, / Noisy musicians, nine or ten. / Raffish youths without name or pelf, / Raw girls, too conscious each of herself. / Respectable prosers, you there may see / And virtuous dames with babes on their knee. / There's a Member of Council with gouty toe - / How far on shall the catalogue go? / Tattoos and coolies complete the scene / Such is the group on the croquet green.' Lucretian reference in conclusion: 'De fonte leprosum ('twas long said) / Surgit amari aliquid. / The grapes for a while with joy you press / But the last of their savour is bitterness.' Beneath this, at the foot of the third page is a small but very well drawn image of a bewhiskered Victorian head (self-portrait by author?) holding before his face a moon-shaped mask of comedy. For more information see 'Matheran Hill: Its People, Plants, and Animals. By J. Y. Smith, M.D., Bombay Medical Staff' (2nd ed., Bombay, 1881). The fourth page of the bifolium has a short note in another hand, as follows: "Read this and return it to me please. It is poor Ed. Howards-" See Images.

Five galley-proofs of articles written during the high-point of the Raj by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood (editor of the Times of India, founder and editor of the Bombay Review). Ephemeral items, creased and worn, but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed 'ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL / THE LATE MR. EDWARD BROOME, C.E. / Mr. M. Martin Wood writes to us as follows: -'. Sixty-two lines in small print follow, beginning: 'Some little time back your "Domestic Occurrences" contained the name of Mr. Edward Broome, Civil Engineer, as having died at Southport, something under 60 years of age. It struck me then that a note of Mr. Broome's quiet work in India ought to be made'. TWO: Annotated at head by Wood, 'India Sep 16th. [1902]'. Sixty-eight lines of small print. Three sections, concerning drought 'in Gujerat and the Deccan'. The first begins: 'An esteemed correspondent writes: Telegrams from India, during the last few weeks, have told us very little about the suspension, and, in certain districts, what almost threatens failure of the later monsoon rains.' The second starts: 'But this passive creed is nto that of their masters from the West'. The third: 'Meantime, what has become of the Scott-Moncrieff comprehensive Water-Supply and Irrigation Report?' THREE: Headed 'INDIA'S CHRONIC DEFICIT. / [FROM AN ANGLO-INDIAN CORRESPONDENT.] Annotated by Wood at head: 'From India Feb. 13th. 03'. Beginning 'Those few of our official financiers at Simla or in the palace overlooking St. James's Park who are at all sensitive to Press criticism must have felt happy when, in the last Financial Statement, they recorded the line - "the entry under Exchange has become of minor importance."' Ninety-three lines of text. FOUR: Headed 'INDIA'S SEABORNE TRADE: / BALANCED ONLY BY DEADWEIGHTS.' Annotated at head by Wood: 'From India Jan 15. 06'. Begins: 'Only within the last fortnight have come to hand detailed returns of India's trade with the outside world during the first six months of its current financial year - April 1 to September 30.' Eighty-one lines in small print. FIVE: Headed 'Reprinted from "INDIA," August 16, 1901. / INDIAN LOANS GUARANTEE. / AN EMERGENT ILLUSTRATION. / (BY AN ANGLO-INDIAN.)' Beginning 'The miscarriage of the proposed Indian sterling loan of £3,000,000 last month must have recalled attention to the often pressed, always postponed demand for a British Treasury guarantee in support of the public debt of India.' Sixty-five lines of small print.

Two galley-proofs of articles by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood (editor of the Times of India, founder and editor of the Bombay Review). Ephemeral items, creased and worn, but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed 'ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL / THE LATE MR. EDWARD BROOME, C.E. / Mr. M. Martin Wood writes to us as follows: -'. Sixty-two lines in small print follow, beginning: 'Some little time back your "Domestic Occurrences" contained the name of Mr. Edward Broome, Civil Engineer, as having died at Southport, something under 60 years of age. It struck me then that a note of Mr. Broome's quiet work in India ought to be made'. TWO: Annotated at head by Wood, 'India Sep 16th. [1902]'. Sixty-eight lines of small print. Three sections, concerning drought 'in Gujerat and the Deccan'. The first begins: 'An esteemed correspondent writes: Telegrams from India, during the last few weeks, have told us very little about the suspension, and, in certain districts, what almost threatens failure of the later monsoon rains.' The second starts: 'But this passive creed is nto that of their masters from the West'. The third: 'Meantime, what has become of the Scott-Moncrieff comprehensive Water-Supply and Irrigation Report?' THREE: Headed 'INDIA'S CHRONIC DEFICIT. / [FROM AN ANGLO-INDIAN CORRESPONDENT.] Annotated by Wood at head: 'From India Feb. 13th. 03'. Beginning 'Those few of our official financiers at Simla or in the palace overlooking St. James's Park who are at all sensitive to Press criticism must have felt happy when, in the last Financial Statement, they recorded the line - "the entry under Exchange has become of minor importance."' Ninety-three lines of text. FOUR: Headed 'INDIA'S SEABORNE TRADE: / BALANCED ONLY BY DEADWEIGHTS.' Annotated at head by Wood: 'From India Jan 15. 06'. Begins: 'Only within the last fortnight have come to hand detailed returns of India's trade with the outside world during the first six months of its current financial year - April 1 to September 30.' Eighty-one lines in small print. FIVE: Headed 'Reprinted from "INDIA," August 16, 1901. / INDIAN LOANS GUARANTEE. / AN EMERGENT ILLUSTRATION. / (BY AN ANGLO-INDIAN.)' Beginning 'The miscarriage of the proposed Indian sterling loan of £3,000,000 last month must have recalled attention to the often pressed, always postponed demand for a British Treasury guarantee in support of the public debt of India.' Sixty-five lines of small print.