Rulers of India: The Earl of MayoHunter, William Wilson
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Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo
Hunter, William Wilson
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947; Mayo, Richard Southwell Bourke, Earl of, 1822-1872
{201} 'Yesterday,' said one of the Dublin papers, 'we saw a State
Solemnity vitalised by the subtle spell of national feeling. Seldom
are the two things united in an Irish public funeral. When imperial
pomp is displayed, the national heart is cold. When the people pay
spontaneous homage to the dead, the trappings of the State are
absent, its voice mute. Yesterday, for once, this ill-omened rule was
broken. Government and the people united in doing honour to an
illustrious Irishman.' The Indian Press had given vent to the wild
sorrow of many races in many languages; the English newspapers were
full of nobly expressed tributes; Parliamentary chiefs had their
well-chosen utterances for the nation's loss. But Lord Mayo, as he
sat on the top of the sea-girt hill and gazed towards the west, where
his dear home lay beyond the sunset, would have prized that united
mourning of his countrymen above any panegyric. They laid him at last
in the secluded graveyard which he had chosen on his own land.
INDEX
AFGHANISTAN, 119-130.
AFZUL KHAN, 121-122.
AGRICULTURE, department of, 182-184.
AITCHISON, Sir C. U., 83, 197.
ALWAR, 107-110.
AMBALA Darbar, 124-126.
ANDAMAN ISLANDS, penal settlement of,
death-rate in, 188:
state of discipline, 188-9:
Lord Mayo's reforms, 189-90:
Lord Mayo's visit, 192-195:
his assassination, 195-7.
ARGYLL, Duke of, 143, 159:
quoted, 176.
ARMY, European,
reductions after the Mutiny, 158-9:
Lord Mayo's proposed reforms, 159-161, 166-168:
his care for the welfare of the troops, 168-170.
ARMY, Native,
reductions after Mutiny, 158-9:
Lord Mayo's proposed reforms, 161-165, 167-8.
ARNOLD, Matthew, quoted, 56.
BALUCHISTAN, 130-2.
BAYLEY, Sir E. Clive, 83.
BHOPAL, 111-112.
BOMBAY, 74-76.
BOURKE, Colonel the Honourable John, 41-2.
BOURKE, John, of Kill and Moneycrower, 19.
BOURKE, Honourable Richard, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, 19.
BOURKE, Richard Southwell, 17. See Earl of Mayo.
BOURKE, Robert,
fifth Earl, 19-22:
succeeds to the Earldom of Mayo, 37.
BURKE, Sir Bernard, 70.
BURMA, 135, 191.
BURNE, General H. K., 83.
BURNE, General Sir Owen Tudor, 82:
quoted, 92, 195.
CANAL, Ganges, 177.
CANAL, Sarda, 178.
CANAL, Suez, 72-74.
CANALS, of the Jumna, 178.
CANNING, Lord, 81:
quoted, 99.
CENSUS of Bengal, 181.
CHAPMAN, Mr. Barclay, 83.
CLIFFORD, Lady de, 28.
CLONCURRY, Lord, 42.
COMMERCE, Department of, 182-184.
DALHOUSIE, Marquess of, 7:
his annexation of the Punjab and conquests, 11-13.
DAUNT, Mr. O'Neill, 36:
quoted, 37.
DERBY, Earl of,
quoted, 11, 40:
quoted, 45-6, 48.
DISRAELI, Mr., 44, 54:
quoted, 55, 69, 75.
DOST MUHAMMAD, 120.
DUNKELLIN, Lord, 44.
DURAND, Sir Henry, 143, 163, 165.
EAST INDIA COMPANY, 7-9, 80-81.
EDINBURGH, Duke of, 112:
his visit to India, 185-6.
EDUCATION, 179-181.
EDUCATION of Native Princes and Chiefs, 117-118.
ELLIS, Hon. Sir Barrow, 83, 197.
EXPENDITURE, Public Works, 144.
See also FINANCIAL REFORMS.
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