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Identifier: indikacountrypeo00hursuoft (find matches)
Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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icture of war whichgreeted my eyes. I had seen nothing in Cawnpore, with all itsmemories of blood and torture, but images of Christmas-tide.It was quite the same in Lucknow. The Anglo-Indians continuetheir festivities as long as possible. I found Christmas begin-ning in Calcutta, and it had been going on ever since. First ofall came the anniversary exercises in the Centennial High School,then under the presidency of the Rev. Dr. VVaugh, but now ofthe Rev. Dr. Badley. It was a beautiful scene—native girls andbovs intent on a Christian education. The exercises were inHindustani. The most suggestive feature of the programmewas an enthusiastic oration by a native Hindu on the glories ofthe Battle of Plassey. Here was a young Hindu, in whose veinsthere was no English blood, declaring the inestimable benefitconferred by Clive on the civilization of the world by conquer-ing this Hindus ancestors at Plassey! It was just about thesame as if a young Frenchman of our day should deliver a pane-
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(WW ■ • 6 ;; LTTCKNOW THE HEART OF THE MUTINY 595 gyric on the English victory at Waterloo. This young Hindu, however, told the strict truth. < )ne of the overlooked factors which aided in securing victoryto the English in India, during the mutiny, was the bravery ofsome of the native and European troops. Those who were trueto the English fought with consummate daring. One of the EaslIndian soldiers, now a Christian minister, George Bailey, was asbrave as any man who ever shouldered a musket. He is a con-spicuous figure in clerical gatherings because of his coat made

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Hurst__J__F___John_Fletcher___1834_1903
  • booksubject:Sri_Lanka
  • booksubject:India
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Harper
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:634
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  • bookcollection:toronto
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