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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LETTER OF INTRODUCTION
- LETTER I THE TWO SYSTEMS
- LETTER II AN INDIAN RAILWAY
- LETTER III A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AND AN OPIUM FACTORY
- LETTER IV A STORY OF THE GREAT MUTINY
- LETTER V A JOURNEY, A GRAND TUMASHA, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CIVIL SERVICE CAREER
- LETTER VI A TIGER-PARTY IN NEPAUL
- LETTER VII ABOUT CALCUTTA AND ITS CLIMATE; WITH SERIOUS INFERENCES
- LETTER VIII ABOUT THE HINDOO CHARACTER; WITH DIGRESSIONS HOME
- LETTER IX BRITISH TEMPER TOWARDS INDIA, BEFORE, DURING, AND SINCE THE MUTINY
- LETTER X THE “ANGLO-SAXON” PARTY IN INDIA
- LETTER XI CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA
- LETTER XII EDUCATION IN INDIA SINCE 1835 ; WITH A MINUTE OF LORD MACAULAY
LETTER III - A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AND AN OPIUM FACTORY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LETTER OF INTRODUCTION
- LETTER I THE TWO SYSTEMS
- LETTER II AN INDIAN RAILWAY
- LETTER III A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AND AN OPIUM FACTORY
- LETTER IV A STORY OF THE GREAT MUTINY
- LETTER V A JOURNEY, A GRAND TUMASHA, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CIVIL SERVICE CAREER
- LETTER VI A TIGER-PARTY IN NEPAUL
- LETTER VII ABOUT CALCUTTA AND ITS CLIMATE; WITH SERIOUS INFERENCES
- LETTER VIII ABOUT THE HINDOO CHARACTER; WITH DIGRESSIONS HOME
- LETTER IX BRITISH TEMPER TOWARDS INDIA, BEFORE, DURING, AND SINCE THE MUTINY
- LETTER X THE “ANGLO-SAXON” PARTY IN INDIA
- LETTER XI CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA
- LETTER XII EDUCATION IN INDIA SINCE 1835 ; WITH A MINUTE OF LORD MACAULAY
Summary
Mofussilpore, Feb. 12, 1863.
Dear Simkins,–I libelled Patna somewhat in my last letter. Ratcliffe drove me in on two different occasions, and we spent one long day in poking about the town, and another in the opium factory, which is second only in importance to that of Benares. There is a mile or two of very singular street architecture. The Mahommedans live here in great numbers, and everything belonging to them is picturesque all the world over. We visited a Mahommedan foundation, something between a college and a monastery, which boasted a good deal of shabby magnificence. It is very richly endowed, and the loaves and fishes are kept strictly among the founder's kin. The head of the family for the time being is ipso facto President, and he had apparently distributed the college offices with great impartiality among his brothers. The Fellows were certainly bene nati, and may have been mediocriter docti for all I knew. There was no doubt that they fell short of the All Souls' standard in the other particular.
We were led through a long series of quadrangles built of white stone, with the shrine of some devotee of ancient days standing in the centre of each, on the brink of a pretty little ornamental tank. Some of the courts were used as hospitia for pilgrims, others as schools for the younger members of the institution, others again as combination-rooms and studies for the Fellows.
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- The Competition Wallah , pp. 47 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1864