MODERN INDIA
BY WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS
| Author of "The Turk and His Lost Provinces," "To-day in Syriaand Palestine," "Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia," etc. |
To LADY CURZON
An ideal american woman
This volume contains a series of letters written for The ChicagoRecord-Herald during the winter of 1903-04, and are publishedin permanent form through the courtesy of Mr. Frank B. Noyes,Editor and publisher of that paper. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| I. | The Eye of India |
| II. | The City of Bombay |
| III. | Servants, Hotels, and Cave Temples |
| IV. | The Empire of India |
| V. | Two Hindu Weddings |
| VI. | The Religions of India |
| VII. | How India Is Governed |
| VIII. | The Railways of India |
| IX. | The City of Ahmedabad |
| X. | Jeypore and its Maharaja |
| XI. | About Snakes and Tigers |
| XII. | The Rajputs and Their Country |
| XIII. | The Ancient Mogul Empire |
| XIV. | The Architecture of the Moguls |
| XV. | The Most Beautiful of Buildings |
| XVI. | The Quaint Old City of Delhi |
| XVII. | The Temples and Tombs at Delhi |
| XVIII. | Thugs, Fakirs and Nautch Dancers |
| XIX. | Simla and the Punjab |
| XX. | Famines and Their Antidotes |
| XXI. | The Frontier Question |
| XXII. | The Army in India |
| XXIII. | Muttra, Lucknow and Cawnpore |
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