Sketches of social life in IndiaBuckland, C. T. (Charles Thomas)
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Sketches of social life in India
Buckland, C. T. (Charles Thomas)
British -- India -- Social life and customs; India -- Social life and customs
CONTENTS.—Outward Bound.—The Old Times and the New.—Domestic
Life.—Houses and Bungalows.—Indian Servants.—The Great Shoe
Question.—The Garrison Hack.—The Long Bow in India.—Mrs.
Dulcimer’s Shipwreck.—A Traveller’s Tale, told in a Dark
Bungalow.—Punch in India.—Anglo-Indian Literature.—Christmas in
India.—The Seasons in Calcutta.—Farmers in Muslin.—Homeward
Bound.—India as it Is.
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