Chapter XVIII: Appendix: III

MAJOR CLAUDE CLERK TO MR. BLUNT

9, Albert Hall Mansions, Kensington Gore, S.W.
_November 15th, 1904_.

DEAR MR. BLUNT,

Very many thanks for your “Ideas about India” which you have so
kindly sent me. I look forward with pleasure to reading your
work, and I know I shall find much in it of the greatest interest
to me. Although I have only just glanced at what you then wrote,
I can see that all you say is as true now as it was then--the
impoverishment of the millions, and the reckless extravagance of
their effeminate rulers, living away from the people in their
mountain retreats nine months usually out of the twelve. You may
put down much of India’s woes to the farce of a government whose
officials are perched away in the clouds, absorbed in their own
amusements, etc., “in the hills,” and unmindful of their duty to
the people. Lord Curzon has done something to break down this
Simla curse of India. Lord Randolph Churchill was a very great
loss to India. Had it been fated that his time at the India
Office could have been prolonged, he would have set many things
to rights there. The hard work he did do there went a long way to
break him down, as it did to a good man of the name of Moore he
found there, and who died, I think, about the same time as Lord
Randolph Churchill. I should like some day, when you are again
in England and I alive, to send you a copy of a letter I wrote
to Lord Ripon, and of an official report I sent in showing what
the state of things was during the last years of the Nizam’s
minority, affecting as it did his training, etc. I much doubt
whether this ever got beyond the Residency.

I had no idea that your knowledge as to what was really going
on at Hyderabad had so largely influenced Lord Ripon. You are
perfectly right in what you say as to his being put away at
Bolarum, removed from the city, etc. I had offered my house but
was told there was fear of cholera! That matters went wrong
subsequently between the young Salar Jung and his master was no
fault of what Lord Ripon did. Foiled in what they had aimed at,
the party in power had other sinister objects in view, and with
the underhand support of the Residency these they carried out.
They, of course, saw that a difference between the Nizam and his
young minister opened the road to their designs, especially as
the latter--who was throughout in the wrong--was supported by
Cordery, which, of course, made matters worse. From the first,
when Salar Jung asked me, when here in England, to take up the
appointment--which I declined at first and for some weeks--I
determined, when I had accepted it, to hold myself entirely
aloof from the Simla clique and its ways, of which I was not
an admirer. After you left, my summary removal by the party in
power was an object to be kept in view. But the first attempt was
so clumsy that even Cordery could give it only a half-hearted
support. Afterwards they succeeded. My agreement with Salar
Jung was to serve ten years, and fifteen if required to do so.
The young Nizam, unknown to me, as I was in England on sick
leave for three months, had asked to retain my services for the
full period, but the Government of India, of course prompted by
Cordery, abruptly refused the Nizam’s request.

Pray pardon all this personal recollection of what occurred
then, but my pen has run on! Your pp. 132, 133, as to the
Emir-el-Kabir, the colleague forced by Lord Lytton on Salar Jung,
this is what was written of him by Sir George Yule, one of the
best men we ever had as Resident at Hyderabad and who retained
Salar Jung’s friendship to the day of his death:

“In spite of Salar Jung’s repeated remonstrances, we have
forced upon him as his colleague a man who was notoriously
his personal enemy, a man who had heavily bribed others in
scandalous intrigues against him, and whose servant had openly
tried to murder him.” This was the man--the tool--we wanted to
work Salar Jung’s humiliation to the bitter end. Such had been
his iniquitous intrigues in former years that a more honest
Government than Lord Lytton’s had ordered that he was _never_ to
be present at any Durbar where English officers were present.

Very truly yours,
CLAUDE CLERK.

* * * * *

9, Albert Hall Mansions,
_April 29th, 1905_.

I often look at your “Ideas about India,” and find always
something to interest me and to inform me. Lord Ripon’s policy in
making the young Salar Jung _Dewan_ was of course a risky one.
But it was, as you well know, the right course. That it would
have been crowned with success there is no doubt whatever--I
was behind the scenes throughout--in my mind, had Lord Ripon
gone only one step further and changed the Resident. Cordery
was bound hand and foot by the action of those with whom he
was associated, and they were supporting the very party in the
city--which Cordery went so far as to call “our party”--who had
determined on the moral ruin of the Nizam during a two years’
prolongation of the minority, during which they would have kept
the lid of the Treasury open without scruple of any sort or
kind. As it was, Lord Ripon had not been gone from Hyderabad
for a month before that party, supported through thick and
thin by Cordery, had gained the ascendancy. The difference,
originally but a trifle, between the Nizam and his Dewan, was
skilfully fanned by the bribed members of the Nizam’s and the
Dewan’s entourage, and an open breach between the two was then
inevitable. How our Government acted to retain the young Salar
Jung in power--when they knew it was too late--is an amusing
story, but too long to trouble you with here. But I would like
some day when you are again in London to send you my official
reports for the last years of the Nizam’s minority. These were
written by me yearly and submitted to H.H.’s Government and
then sent on through the Resident to the Government of India
(Foreign Department). I ought to have been called on to explain
the statements I had made, or H.H. ought to have been desired
to dismiss me on the spot, considering what I had stated. But
this only being the truth, the Government of India did neither,
fearing the result. My reports were left entirely unnoticed and
this after the Government of India’s repeated declarations that
it, the Government of India, was _the guardian_ of H.H. and
deeply interested in his education, welfare, etc. But I was much
in the way of the party in power, and soon opportunity was found
of getting me out of Hyderabad.

Yours very truly,
CLAUDE CLERK.

INDEX

Abd-el-Ghaffar, Mohammed, 129.

Abd-el-Hak of Hyderabad, 191, 194, 195, 196, 202.

Abd-el-Latif, Nawab, head of the Sunni Mohammedans at Calcutta, 14,
86, 97, 98, 99, 104, 110, 111, 127, 131, 134, 138, 219;
his son-in-law, Seyd Mohammed, 134, 136;
his son, Abd-el-Rahman, 99, 108, 109, 117.

Abd-el-Rahman Minni, Sheykh, Arab horse-dealer of Bombay, 208, 209,
211, 212, 216.

Abd-el-Rahman, Seyd, of Madras, 41;
his Eurasian wife, 41, 44.

Abraham, Mr. Matthew, of Bellari, 53.

“Abu Nadara,” James Sanua, editor of, 13, 64, 123.

Afghans and Persians, 14, 98, 188, 192.

Agha Khan, The Chief of the Khoja sect, residing at Bombay, 210,
211, 212, 213.

Agricultural danger, the, 82, 236-254.

Ahmed, Mulvi, Municipal Councillor of Calcutta, 110.

Akbar Huseyn, translator of “Future of Islam,” 119-124, 146, 163.

Ali Abdallah, of Hyderabad, 62, 68.

Aligarh College, 119, 155-160.

Ali Hamid Bey, Turkish Consul at Bombay, 211-215.

Allahabad, 144-150.

Amir Ali, the Honble. Seyd, Leader of the new school of Mohammedans
at Calcutta, 86, 87, 96, 97, 98, 103, 104, 105, 110, 111, 113,
121, 128, 131, 138, 219.

Amir Hassan, Rajah of Mahmudabad, 125, 148, 149, 152, 153, 154, 155,
229.

Amir Huseyn, Mulvi Seyd, Deputy-Collector, 93, 97.

Anjuman i Islam meeting at Calcutta, 124, 126.

Arab horses, 61, 62, 66, 67, 110, 129, 208, 212.

Arabi Pasha, 15, 22, 23, 25, 88, 98, 112, 113, 118, 124, 289.

Arabs in India, 59, 60, 61, 65, 66, 71, 209, 211, 212, 213, 287.

Bafiti, Mohammed, Sheykh es Saadat of Medina, 139.

Bailey, Sir Stuart, 78, 92, 93, 109, 117, 182.

Banerji, Surendra Nath, the Calcutta orator, 102, 109, 114, 137.

Baring, Sir Evelyn, Lord Cromer, 11, 14, 55, 120, 167, 177.

Barrow, General, 152.

Beck, Mr., of Aligarh College, 156.

Behar, Province of, 139.

Bellari, 50-55;
famine at, 54.

Benares, 142, 143, 144.

Benares, Maharajah of, 120, 142, 143.

Bengal Permanent Land Settlement, 86, 94, 108, 221, 252.

Bengal Rent Bill, 86, 93, 94, 102, 108.

Bentinck, Lord William, 95.

Berar Provinces, intrigue for the retention of, 58, 74, 75, 77, 83,
89, 91, 149, 179, 184-205, 206, 336.

Bilgrami, Seyd Ali, 61, 63, 204.

Bilgrami Seyd Huseyn, private secretary to Salar Jung, now member of
the Indian Council in London, 61, 64, 68, 74, 75, 77, 79, 93,
185, 186, 190, 191, 199, 200.

Bolarum, 174, 190.

Bombay, 82, 173, 174, 208-226.

“Bombay Gazette,” 191, 208.

Bose, Mr., Secretary of the National Conference at Calcutta, 114,
118, 121.

Bulbul of the Deccan, 198, 199, 201, 203.

Burmah, 16, 17.

Bushir-ed-Dowlah, nobleman of Hyderabad, 69, 73, 76, 91, 180, 182,
185.

Calcutta, 85-138.

Calcutta races, 110.

Caliphate, Arabian, 13, 119;
Ottoman, 63, 119, 124.

Canning, Lord, 95, 270.

Ceylon, 19-26.

Chandanagore, 113.

Cheragh Ali, Mulvi, of Hyderabad, 64, 70, 79, 197.

Christians, Native, 24, 46, 51, 55, 100, 282.

Churchill, Lord Randolph, 9, 12, 83, 84, 146, 175, 177, 230, 334.

Clerk, Major, the Nizam’s tutor, 65, 67, 184, 198, 204;
his letters in Appendix, 335, 336;
Mrs., 137, 196, 197.

Colombo, 19, 26.

Colvin, Sir Auckland, 8, 113, 150, 272.

Connaught, H.R.H. the Duke of, 55, 165.

Connemara, Lord, 43.

Constitutional Reform, plan of, 215, 310-326.

Cordery, Mr., Resident at Hyderabad, 58, 80, 89, 136, 150, 174, 178,
179, 182, 184, 185, 190, 191, 193, 196, 199, 203, 206, 219, 228,
335, 336.

Cornwallis, Lord, his land settlement of Bengal, 86.

Council, Indian, in London, 215, 316.

Councils, Provincial, 316, 317, 318, 319.

Couper, Sir George, 154.

Covenanted Civil Service, 36, 40, 43, 47, 55, 60, 75, 83, 95, 114,
116, 206, 215, 234, 267, 268, 273, 275, 310-318.

Curzon of Kedleston, Lord, 91, 205, 334.

Debt, Public, 323.

Debts, Village, 7, 42, 232, 243-246.

Deccan College, 81.

Deccan horsemanship, 67.

Delawar Huseyn, Deputy-Magistrate at Calcutta, 115.

Delhi, 161-171;
capture of, 169, 170;
horrors committed at, 163, 164;
last King of, 163, 167, 169.

Deportation, 13, 80, 235.

Dobbs, Colonel, 191.

Dravidians, 23, 34.

Dufferin, Marquess of, 177, 202, 229.

Durand, Sir Mortimer, Secretary to the Calcutta Foreign Office, 117,
180.

Eden, Sir Ashley, 100.

Eid el Temini, Sheykh, Arab horse dealer at Bombay, 209, 217.

Emperors of Delhi, 172.

Englishwomen in India, 248, 261, 262.

Eurasians, 41, 44, 51, 52.

Famine, 2, 50, 54, 216, 232, 241.

Ferdunji Nowrosji, Parsi Councillor at Bombay, 223.

Fergusson, Sir James, Governor of Bombay, 209, 219-224.

Ferid-ed-Din Ahmed, Mulvi of Cawnpore, 119, 125, 126, 139, 144, 145,
147, 148, 189.

Ferukshah, Prince, 134.

Finance, 247-254.

Flying foxes, 65.

Forest Laws, 42, 210, 216, 224, 241, 242.

Frere, Sir Bartle, 81, 249.

“Future of Islam,” 62, 112, 119, 123, 124, 126, 158, 231, 295.

Future of self-government, 107-118, 234, 235, 299-326.

Gaignaud, Mademoiselle, Governess in Salar Jung’s household, 70, 200;
her account of Sir Salar Jung’s death, 200, 201.

Geary, Mr., editor of “Bombay Gazette,” 191.

Ghaleb Jung, an Arab of Hyderabad, 59.

Ghose, Dr., of Calcutta, 137.

Ghulam Mohammed Munshi, of Bombay, 212.

Gladstone, Rt. Honble. W. E., 1-5, 9, 14, 83, 96, 106, 146, 208,
211.

Godley, Sir Arthur, 180.

Gordon, General C. G., 83, 95, 167-168, 189, 194, 208, 213, 230;
my letter to, 168.

Gordon, Sir Arthur, 24.

Gorst, Sir John, 83, 84, 175-185.

Gough, Major, in the Nizam’s service, 69.

Grant-Duff, Sir Mount Stewart, 36, 37, 41, 45, 53, 177, 193, 196,
219.

Gregory, Sir William, 23, 25.

Hamilton, Sir Edward, private secretary to Mr. Gladstone, 9, 11,
122, 177, 180.

Hanna, Mr., a Christianized Hindu, 51.

Henderson, Mr., of the Secret Police, 186, 196, 204.

“Hindu Patriot,” 94.

“Hindu Prakash,” 81.

Hindu worship, 24, 31, 32, 46, 48, 49, 282-285.

Hodson, Colonel, 166, 169.

Holkar, Maharajah, 301.

Hörnli, Dr., Swiss Director of the Calcutta Madrasa, 98, 105, 124.

Humayum, Emperor, his tomb at Delhi, 169.

Humayum Jah Bahadur, head of Mohammedan community of Madras, 41.

Hunter, Sir William, statistician, 130, 132, 133, 138, 239, 291;
his letter in Appendix, 332.

Hyderabad, 57-82, 175-207, 304.

“Ideas about India,” 231, 335.

Ik-Balet-Dowlah. See Vikar-el-Omra.

Ikhram Ullah, of Delhi, Seyd Ahmed’s nephew, 121, 158, 161, 163,
164, 170.

Ilbert Bill, 5, 16, 17, 44, 85, 96, 100, 102, 103, 106, 108, 109,
111, 113, 121, 132, 133, 145, 177, 269, 271, 272, 273.

Ilbert, Mrs., 96, 130, 132;
Sir Courtenay, 132.

Import duties, 223, 224, 250, 251, 253.

Income Tax, 223, 251, 252.

“Indian Club,” 115.

“Indian Mirror,” 85, 106.

“Indian Spectator,” 82, 132.

Industrial ruin, 213, 239, 240, 247-251, 253, 306.

Insults to Natives, 121, 141, 146, 147, 148, 150, 152, 157, 174,
263-266.

Jehan Kadur, Prince, brother of the King of Oude, 120, 125.

Jemal-ed-Din Afghani, Seyd, 12, 13, 63, 80, 97, 99, 108, 112, 123,
128.

Jeypore, 172.

Jijibhoy, Sir Jamsetji, 88, 95, 214.

Johnstone, Dr., Bishop of Calcutta, 99.

Kabraji, Kaikhosna Nowrosji, editor of the “Rast” of Bombay, 214,
215.

Kaisar Bagh meeting, 155.

Kalbarga, 81, 198, 203, 204, 206, 207.

Keay, Seymour, Mr., 58, 116, 118.

Kebir-ed-Din, Mohammedan editor in Calcutta, 106.

Kerr, Rev. Schomberg, S.J., Lord Ripon’s chaplain, 87, 179, 182.

Kimberley, Earl of, Secretary of State for India, 18, 96.

Knight, Mr., editor of “Statesman,” 92.

Kokhnis, 213, 287.

Kolapur, Mahratta Diwan of, 218.

Kottub, the, 165, 170.

Krishna, Maharajah of, 130, 131, 137.

Kristo Das Pal, editor of “The Hindu Patriot,” Member of the
Legislative Council, 94, 133.

Laik Ali, Salar Jung (the younger). _See_ Salar Jung.

Lambert, Mr., head of Secret Police, 182, 185.

Land assessment, 42, 86, 87, 130, 155, 171, 207, 213, 218, 221, 222,
225, 239.

Land Settlement, Permanent, 94, 213, 216, 221, 222, 225, 241, 242,
252;
recommended, 252.

Local Self-Government Bill, 85, 213, 246, 270, 271, 272.

Loharo, Chief of, 161, 165, 169.

Lucknow, 150-155.

Lyall, Sir Alfred, Lieutenant-Governor of North-West Provinces, 6,
11, 107, 117, 120, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 157, 177.

Lytton, Robert, Earl of, 6, 7, 79, 89, 94, 177, 202, 216, 335.

Madhava Rao, Sir, 38, 88.

Madras, 35-45, 303.

Madrasa, Culcutta, 135.

Madura, 29-33.

Mahbub Ali. _See_ The Nizam.

Mahdi Ali, Prince, of Lucknow, 153, 154.

Mahdi, the Soudanese, 112, 123, 125, 168, 180, 189, 194, 197, 203,
208, 209, 210, 217, 223.

Mahmud Sami Pasha, 19, 25, 120.

Malabari, Behramji, Parsi editor of the “Indian Spectator,” 82,
173, 177, 211, 225.

Malays of Ceylon, 23.

Malkum Khan, Prince, 188.

Mandlik, Mr., 178.

Manockji Rustemji, Mr., 88, 95.

Mayo Hall meeting at Allahabad, 145, 149.

Mazhar, Abd-el-Rahman, Cadi of Bagdad, 120.

Meade, Sir Richard, 58, 84, 93.

Mehdy Hassan, Mulvi, of Lucknow, 79.

Mir Alum tank, 61, 193.

Mirza Agha Khan, the Nizam’s Persian tutor, 204.

Moguls, Last of the, 143, 144.

Mohammed Ali Bey, Master of Nizam’s Horse, 193, 201.

Mohammed Ibrahim, Chief Mujtahed at Lucknow, 153.

Mohammed Yusuf, Member of Calcutta Council, 123.

Mohammedan Question, 278-298.

Mohammedans of Southern India, 27, 28, 29, 41, 45, 287, 288, 289.

Mohunt, the, 49.

Monier Williams, Professor, 226.

Moore, Colonel, 165, 166, 167, 179, 184, 187, 191.

Moors of Ceylon, 23, 25-27, 287, 288.

Mukerji, Rasbihari, of Uttarpara, 101, 120;
Sambhu Chandra, 106;
family of, 124.

Mullen, Dr., at Ulwar, 171.

Mulvi A. M., 104, 107, 112, 136.

Muteswami, Judge, of Madras, 40, 42, 44.

National Conference at Calcutta, 114, 116, 117, 118.

Native States, 299-305.

Nawaiz Jung, Sultan El Kaiti, Prince of Hadramaut at Hyderabad, 65,
66, 79, 80.

Nizam, Mahbub Ali, the, 62, 66, 67, 72, 77, 110, 137-183, 186, 189,
190, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198, 203-206, 210, 212, 219, 330, 334,
335, 336;
his stables, 61, 66;
intrigue against, 67, 70, 74, 75, 76, 89, 90, 91, 93, 109, 117,
119, 136, 179, 205, 206, 228;
his installation, 91, 109, 119, 132, 155, 159, 175-207.

Norendro Nath Sen, editor of the “Indian Mirror,” 85.

Nur-el-Huda, Seyd, of Patna, 100, 139.

Oude, King of, 120, 125.

Palmer, Professor, his mission, 15, 16, 19, 166, 167.

Parsis, 214, 285-287.

Patna, 139-141;
outrage case, 141, 146, 147, 174, 178, 182, 194, 264-266.

Patterson, Mr., 147.

Peishkar, the, Minister of the Nizam, 62, 70, 71, 76, 78, 137, 185,
186, 201.

“Pioneer, The,” Anglo-Indian newspaper of Allahabad, 8, 149, 150,
159.

Pollen, Walter, A.D.C. to Lord Ripon, 85, 177, 180, 194.

Poona, 81.

Poverty of India, 50, 213, 236-246, 254.

Press laws, 2, 235.

Press, Native, 255.

Primrose, Sir Henry, Lord Ripon’s private secretary, 9, 85, 142, 167,
177, 179, 180, 191, 266.

Princes of India, 35, 38, 162, 164, 301, 302, 304.

Purani Palace at Hyderabad, 204.

Queen Victoria, 2, 3, 132, 325;
her proclamation, 132, 312.

Race hatred, causes of, 73, 74, 100, 101, 102, 231-235, 255-277.

Ragunath Rao, a distinguished Mahratta Brahmin of Madras, 38, 42,
43, 88, 178, 194, 219.

Rajputana, 171, 172.

Ramanatha, Mr., head of the Tamil community at Colombo, 24.

Rangiar Naidu, Zemindar of Madras, 41, 50.

Rasul Yar Khan, Nawab, of Hyderabad, 14, 59, 63, 71, 80, 182, 185,
187, 197, 198, 201, 203, 204.

Raza Huseyn, Seyd, Kadi of Patna, 129, 139.

Ripon, Marquis of, 1-4, 36, 37, 55, 76, 77, 82, 83, 85, 88-91, 95,
96, 109, 122, 131, 132, 136, 137, 138, 141, 147, 148, 177-184,
186, 187, 189-196, 202, 203, 205, 206, 219, 228, 229, 232, 253,
268-273, 315, 334-336;
his character, 3, 4, 55, 96, 97, 148, 269, 270, 326;
reasons of his failure, 5, 6, 53, 55, 95, 122, 130;
his ideas, 37;
talks with, 89, 90, 91, 92, 178, 179, 190, 194, 195, 196;
his opinions about Berar, 91, 183, 184;
his speech at the Nizam’s installation, 186, 187;
his great popularity, 270-273.

Roberts, Field Marshal Sir Frederick (Lord Roberts), 187, 189, 192,
193, 196.

Rogay, Mr. Mohammed, wealthy Moslem of Bombay, 82, 139, 210, 211,
223, 225, 263.

Saadut Ali, Salar Jung’s brother, 186, 193.

Sabunji, Mr., 12, 13, 19.

Salar Jung, Sir (the elder), 61, 63, 74, 89, 90, 149, 186, 191;
his death, 63, 89, 173, 200, 201, 212, 300, 335.

Salar Jung (the younger), Laik Ali, 66, 68, 70, 72, 76, 77, 90, 91,
93, 99, 109, 132, 180, 182, 183, 186, 188, 189, 190, 193, 194,
195, 197, 201, 202, 204, 205, 228, 330, 334, 335.

Salt tax, 2, 36, 41, 50, 53, 95, 140, 158, 207, 218, 222, 223, 224,
232, 242, 243, 254.

Sami Ullah, Mulvi, of Aligarh, 103, 105, 155, 156, 157.

Sandwal, Dr., a Christian Hindu, 100.

Sanskrit College, 46, 49.

Scindia, Maharajah, 301.

Sebapathy Ayar, a Christianized Hindu, 55, 204.

Self-Government, the future of, 299-326.

Seyd Abdallah, merchant of Mecca, 71.

Seyd Ahmed Afghani, 187-188.

Seyd Ahmed, Mulvi, of Aligarh, Founder of Aligarh College, 117, 127,
155-160, 181, 188.

Shankar, Rao, Pandit, Oriental translator to Bombay Government, 222.

Shere Ali, Amir of Afghanistan, 187, 188.

Shiahs and Sunnis, 63, 72, 134, 151, 153, 154, 163, 212, 213, 295.

Shooting accident, 157.

Shustari, Seyd Ali, a poet and wag, 69, 71, 201, 203.

Sirhadé Huseyn, of Patna, 140.

Siva Prasad, Rajah, 120, 125.

Solomon, our servant, 46, 174.

Souter, Sir Frank, 216, 217.

Southern India described, 27;
Moslems of, 27-29, 41, 45, 287-289.

“Statesman, The,” 136, 191.

Stewart, Sir Donald, High Court Judge, 146, 187.

Strachey, Sir John, 6, 142, 147, 240, 246, 253.

Subramania Ayer, journalist of Madras, 36.

Suleyman Kadur, Prince, 120, 125.

Suliman Jah, Prince, of the Mogul family, 161, 162, 164, 165.

Sultan, Ottoman, 13, 63, 64, 79, 111, 125, 161, 230.

Tagore, Sir Jotendro Mohun, 86, 87, 96.

Tamils, the, of Ceylon, 23, 27.

Tanjore, 34.

Tea Planters, 17, 18, 145.

Telang, Kashinath, member of Bombay Council, 220, 223.

Temple, Sir Richard, 216, 218, 249.

Tenth Hussars, 153.

Tippara, Rajah of, 115.

Tirupati, 46-49.

Trevelyan, Sir Charles, 40.

Trevor, Mr., 60, 67, 80, 92, 93, 178, 199, 201.

Trichinopoly, 33.

Tuticorin, 27.

Tyabji, Bedr-ed-Din, of Bombay, 225.

University, Mohammedan, 98, 117, 119, 126, 127, 131, 133, 134, 167,
179, 190, 198, 199, 200, 202, 203, 204, 206, 208, 212, 227;
scheme of, in Appendix, 337.

Ulwar, 171, 172, 229.

Uttarpara, 101.

Varada Rao, of Madras, 38, 42, 45.

Viceroy’s Council, Debate on the Ilbert Bill, 132, 133.

Vikar-el-Omra, Ik Balet Dowlah, nobleman of Hyderabad, 64, 67, 69,
73, 137, 157, 182, 188, 193.

Village evictions, 242.

Village poverty, 50, 53, 54, 55, 87-94, 95, 102, 118, 140, 158, 207,
213, 232, 236, 237, 306.

Villayet Ali, Nawab of Patna, 140, 141, 183, 264.

Wedderburn, Sir William, Bart., 213, 215, 216, 240;
reforms recommended by, 215.

West, Mr., Vice-Chancellor of the Bombay University, 219, 224.

“Wind and the Whirlwind, The,” 14, 136, 153, 184.

Yemen, politics of, 123;
horses of, 128, 129;
a sheykh of, 128.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Several proper names do not agree with currently accepted spellings, but have not been changed except to make index entries correlate with the text where possible, as noted below. Uncommon spellings (e.g. adherred, premiss) which were not clearly printing errors were left unchanged. Inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. shop-keeper, shopkeeper) was left as printed, as most likely to reflect the original diary entries.

“congregrated” changed to “congregated” on page 12. (Egyptian exiles congregated there.)

“Englishmen” changed to “Englishman” on page 156. (an average Englishman)

“Vice-Chanceller” changed to “Vice-Chancellor” on page 224. (Vice-Chancellor of the university)

“or” changed to “of” on page 242. (the great famine of 1877-78)

“betwen” changed to “between” on page 305. (the connection between England and India)

“Temimi” changed to “Temini” on page 339. (Eid el Temini)

“Ghalum” changed to “Ghulam” and re-alphabetized on page 339. (Ghulam Mohammed Munshi)

“Ayar” changed to “Ayer” on page 343. (Subramania Ayer)

“Trichinopoli” changed to “Trichinopoly” on pages 288 (such towns as Tanjore and Trichinopoly) and 343 (index entry).

End of Project Gutenberg's India Under Ripon, by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt