THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE. ------- EIGHT LECTURES ON INDIA. ------- PREPARED FOR THE COMMITTEE BY H. J. MACKINDER, Lately Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science: Author of “Britain and the British Seas.” ------- With Lantern Illustrations. ------- ONE SHILLING NET. WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, PRINTERS, LONDON WALL. --- 1910. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 480 Slides, 60 for each Lecture, have been prepared in connection with this book, and are sold on behalf of the Committee by Messrs. Newton & Co., 3, Fleet Street, London, E.C., from whom the books of lectures can also be obtained. The complete set of 480 Slides, in eight padded boxes, may be had for £50, or the Slides to accompany the several Lectures will be sold for Six Guineas each Lecture. Single Slides will not be sold. The series consists for the most part of views taken by Mr. A. Hugh Fisher, the artist who went to India for the purpose on behalf of the Committee. Some of them are photographs coloured by hand from sketches in colour prepared by Mr. Fisher, and some are colour photographs by the Sanger Shepherd process reproducing Mr. Fisher’s own sketches. There are also many maps in colour prepared by the Diagram Company. -------------- The slides of this series are copyright. ------------------------------------ ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE. APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES. ---------------------------- THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF MEATH, K.P., Chairman. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, G.C.M.G. SIR JOHN STRUTHERS, K.C.B., LL.D., Secretary to the Scotch Education Department. SIR PHILIP HUTCHINS, K.C.S.I., late Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India. SIR CHARLES LUCAS, K.C.M.G., C.B., of the Colonial Office. SIR CHARLES HOLROYD, Director of the National Gallery. H. F. HEATH, Ph.D., Director of Special Inquiries and Reports, Board of Education. H. J. MACKINDER, M.P., late Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. W. H. MERCER, C.M.G., Crown Agent for the Colonies. R. D. ROBERTS, D.Sc., Secretary of the Gilchrist Educational Trust.