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A Handbook for Travellers in India Burma and Ceylon Including the Provinces of Bengal Bombay - Classic Reprint
Author: John Murray

Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon: Including the Provinces of Bengal, Bombay — The complete revision of a Handbook is perhaps a suitable occasion for an entirely new preface to it, and for the brief record of the birth and growth of the work revised. — The Handbook of India was originally published by Mr John Murra... more »y in three separate volumes, for the Bombay, Madras, and Bengal Presidencies. The first two of these parts appeared in 1859, the Bengal volume not till 1882. A fourth volume, dealing with the Panjab and North-West India, was added to them in 1883. They were all prepared by the late Captain E. B. Eastwick, M.P., who made long visits to India, in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, in order to collect the material for them on the spot. When it is recollected how incomplete the railway communications between the different parts of India then were, that the Imperial Gazetteer, edited by Sir W. W. Hunter, had not yet appeared, and that up to the time very few volumes of District Gazetteers had been issued, it will readily be conceded that Captain Eastwick's task was a difficult and laborious one, and that allowance might be fairly claimed for any short-comings in the volumes compiled by him.

These volumes were revised and brought up to date on several occasions, and in 1892 the Handbook was issued in a single volume of 500 pages, as compared with 1459 pages in the four separate volumes. On this occasion the work was largely rewritten and thoroughly revised, much assistance in the task being received by the publisher from Dr Burgess, C. I. E., LL. D., Dr Bradshaw, LL. D., Mr H. Beauchamp, Major Spratt, R. E., Mr R. Clarke, B. C. S., Mr T. Westlake, Mr G. Marsden, and Mr E. B. Smith.

The description of Ceylon, with the exception of the account of Colombo, was written by Sir Arthur Gordon, G. C. M. G. (now Lord Stanmore), and the proofs of the whole Handbook were passed by Professor Forrest, C. I. E., then Keeper of the Records of the Government of India in Calcutta.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

ISBN-13: 9781330331040
ISBN-10: 1330331044
Publication Date: 9/27/2015
Pages: 790
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