Village Town and Jungle Life in India

A.C. Newcombe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

488 Seiten

2024
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
978-93-90035-82-3 (ISBN)

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Newcombe’s first voyage to India was in the troopship Malabar, which left Southampton, England on 7 October 1874. His was the first batch of fifty young Civil Engineers just appointed from Coopers Hill College to the Public Works Department. His long experience in many parts of India – towns and jungle, hills and plains – enabled him to collect a wealth of information. This book is based on the notes he made for mainly those who were about to proceed to India. Among the various subjects he writes on are places like Bombay, Punjab and camp life of villagers, life during the summers and the monsoons, hill life, famine, irrigation works in the North-West Provinces, towns and temples, religions, diseases, Baboo English, furlough and retirement and a host of?useful?topics?for?those?new?to?India.

Alfred Cornelius Newcombe, started his career in 1874 and served at various places in North India in different capacities. Later on he spent time in Assam and with Nijam Government in Hyderabad. He retired in 1902.

I. From England To Bombay 1
II. In The Punjaub 12
III. Camp Life-And VIllagers 31
IV. Horses And Dogs As Companions In India 42
V. Life In A Canal Bungalow, And Among The Workmen 54
VI. The Dry Hot Weather 74
VII. Life During The Monsoon And Rainy Season 94
VIII. Life On Irrigation Works In The North- West Provinces 124
IX. Famine 136
X. Life In Towns 163
XI. Towns And Temples 197
XII. In The Hills 226
XIII. Assam 256 XIV. Hyderabad 296
XV. Life On Railways 334
XVI. Religions 351 XVII. Diseases 375
XVIII. Baboo English 388
XIX. Some Details Of The Moral And Material Condition Of The Natives, And Of Recent Progress 397
XX. Furlough And Retirement 411

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2025
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	950 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	93-90035-82-1 / 9390035821
ISBN-13	978-93-90035-82-3 / 9789390035823
Zustand	Neuware