The Hand-Book of India, a guide to the stranger and the traveller and a companion to the resident

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I /„,„/ I .I...H ■<"■■■' THE HAND-BOOK OF INDIA, A GUIDE TO THE STRANGER AND THE TRAVELLER, AND A COMPANION TO THE RESIDENT. BY J. H. STOCQUELER, LATE EDITOR OF TBS " CALCUTTA. ENGLISHMAN ;" AUTHOR OF " FIFTEEN MONTHS1 PILGRIMAGE TflBOUCH KHOZISTAN, PERSIA, TDBKKT, NEW RUSSIA, GERMANY, ETC. ;" M1UOEIAL9 OP AFFGBANI3T1N," ETC. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: W m. H. ALLEN & CO. 1845. COX, BROTHERS (late COX & SONS), PRINTERS TO THE HONOURABLE EAST-INDIA COMPANY, 74 & 75, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields. TO DWARKANATH TAGORE, WHOSE NOBLE QUALITIES HAVE RENDERED THE COUNTRY WHICH HE HAS SERVED, BY HIS LIBERALITY AND HIS EXAMPLE, AN OBJECT OF INTEREST TO ALL CLASSES OF ENGLISHMEN ■riirsr D.igrs ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY ONE WHO ADMIRES HIS VIRTUE AND PUBLIC SPIRIT, AND CHERISHES A GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF HIS MANY PAST KINDNESSES. J. H. S.