Volume 1

Rambles and recollections of an Indian official / [Sir William Henry Sleeman].

  • William Henry Sleeman
Date:
1893
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    with accuracy, the motives which crowd their standards with military followers are totally overlooked.”—Malthiis. Calcutta : Bishop’s College Press. M.DCCC.XLI. [Thin 8vo. Introduction, p.p. i-xiii; On the Spirit of Military Discipline in the Native Army of India, p.p. 1-59 ; page 60 blank ; Invalid Establishment, p.p. 61-84. The text of these two essays is reprinted as chapters xxviii and xxix of vol. ii of “ Rambles and Re- collections” in the original edition, corresponding to chapters xxi and xxii of this edition, and most of the observations in the Introduction are utilized in various places in that work. The author’s remark in the Introduction to these essays—“ They may never be published, but I cannot deny myself the gratification of printing them’’—indicates that, though printed, they were never published in their separate form. The only copy of the separately printed tract which I have seen is that in the India Office Library.] (9.) 18«, Pamphlet. MAJOR SLEEMAN on the Public Spirit of the Hindoos. From the Transactions of the Agricultural and Hortictiltnral Society^ vol. viii. Art. XXII. Public Spirit among the Hindoo Race as indicated in the floicrishing condition of the Jtihbulpore District in former times, with a sketch of its present state : also on the great importance of attend- ing to Tree Cultivation and suggestions for extending it. By Major Sleeman, late in charge of the Jubbulpore District. [Read at the Meeting of the Society on the 8th Sept., 1841.] [This reprint is a pamphlet of eight pages. The text was again reprinted verbatim as chapter xiv of vol. ii of the “ Rambles and Recollections” in rhe original edition, corresponding to chapter vii of this edition. No contributions by the author of later date than the above to any periodical have been traced. In a letter dated Lucknow, I2th January, 1853 {Jo2irney, vol. ii, p. 390) the author says—“ I was asked by Dr. Duff, the editor of the Calcutta Revieiv, before he went home, to write some articles for that journal, to expose the fallacies, and to counteract the influences of this \scil. annexationist] school ; but I have for many years ceased to contribute to the periodical papers, and have felt bound by my position not to write for them.”]
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