Two months in Arrah in 1857 / by John James Halls.

  • Halls, John James, 1820-1860.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Two months in Arrah in 1857 / by John James Halls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a darker side to the picture; indeed it would be difficult to find more miserable habitations than the huts of the poorer community in this and other native towns^ or fitter nursebeds of contagion and disease. After extending for about a mile^ the main street makes an abrupt turn to the left^ and becomes widened into a broad straight road or market-place, flanked on either side by the houses of the Mahajuns (bankers) and richer natives, and terminated at one extremity by the Judge’s Compound, and on the other by the road leading to the jail, the abiding place of 400 or 500 of the worst characters in the district. A short distance beyond the market-place, is the Cutcherry Compound, a fine large open space of green, enclosed for the most part by trenches and about a mile in circumference. Here tokens of superior civilisation and Euro-