CHAPTER 53 Father Gregory's Notion of the Impediments to Conversion in India-- Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern Languages CHAPTER 54 Fathpur-Sîkrî--The Emperor Akbar's Pilgrimage--Birth of Jahângîr CHAPTER 55 Bharatpur--Dîg--Want of Employment for the Military and the Educated Classes under the Company's Rule CHAPTER 56 Govardhan, the Scene of Kriahna's Dalliance with the Milkmaids CHAPTER 57 Veracity CHAPTER 58 Declining Fertility of the Soil--Popular Notion of the Cause CHAPTER 59 Concentration of Capital and its Effects CHAPTER 60 Transit Duties in India--Mode of Collecting them CHAPTER 61 Peasantry of India attached to no existing Government--Want of Trees in Upper India--Cause and Consequence--Wells and Groves CHAPTER 62 Public Spirit of the Hindoos--Tree Cultivation and Suggestions for extending it CHAPTER 63 Cities and Towns, formed by Public Establishments, disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their Abodes CHAPTER 64 Murder of Mr. Fraser, and Execution of the Nawâb Shams-ud-dîn CHAPTER 65 Marriage of a Jât Chief CHAPTER 66 Collegiate Endowment of Muhammadan Tombs and Mosques CHAPTER 67 The Old City of Delhi CHAPTER 68 New Delhi, or Shâhjahânâbâd CHAPTER 69 Indian Police--Its Defects--and their Cause and Remedy CHAPTER 70 Rent-free Tenures--Right of Government to Resume such Grants CHAPTER 71 The Station of Meerut--'Atâlîs' who Dance and Sing gratuitously for the Benefit of the Poor CHAPTER 72 Subdivisions of Lands--Want of Gradations of Rank--Taxes CHAPTER 73 Meerut-Anglo-Indian Society CHAPTER 74 Pilgrims of India CHAPTER 75 The Bêgam Sumroo CHAPTER 76 ON THE SPIRIT OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE IN THE NATIVE ARMY OF INDIA Abolition of Corporal Punishment--Increase of Pay with Length of Service--Promotion by Seniority CHAPTER 77 Invalid Establishment Appendix: Thuggee and the part taken in its Suppression by General Sir W. H. Sleeman, K.C.B., by Captain J. L. Sleeman Supplementary Note by the Editor Additions and Corrections INDEX Notes: 1. A blunder for 'Sweepers' and 'Washermen' 2. Chapters 37 to 46, inclusive, are not reprinted in this edition. 3. A mistake. See _post_, Chapter 52, note 1. EDITOR'S PREFACE (1893)[1]