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Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon: Including the Provinces of Bengal, Bombay
Handbook was published in 1894, and a third in 1898, the revision on the latter occasion being undertaken by Mr Norwood Young, and valuable assistance being received from Mr H. Beauchamp, Mr G. Marsden, Mr R. E. Acklom, Surgeon lieut-col. Joubert, Mr Playford Reynolds, and Mr Basil Lang. The account of Ceylon was revised by Lord Stanmore. Much additional information was added to the Introduction regarding the people of India and the religions, archi tecture and arts of the country and maps of the rainfall, temperature, and local products of the country were included for the first time. To a brief special account of the Mutiny of 1857 was added a map showing the distribution of the army in India at that crisis, the faultiness of this being mainly responsible for the serious proportions which that outbreak ultimately assumed. A fourth edition in 1901 was brought up to date by Dr Burgess, LL.D.
The present edition has once again undergone a thorough revision. The arrangement of the book has been largely recast in accordance with recent railway developments, and the account of nearly all the principal places in India has been rewritten on the topographical plan, which is usually found to be the most convenient by travellers using a guide-book on the spot. A special brief sketch has been added of the Mohammedan and Hindu Rulers Of India that of the Sikhs has been enlarged, while a new one on the Mahrattas has been included and brief notices have been inserted of the form Of administration Of the Indian Government, of famine and plague, of the working of the railway, postal, and telegraph departments, and of the Christian Religion. The section on irrigation has also been greatly extended. All this has been again necessitated, to quote the words of the first edition of the consolidated Handbook, by the fact that time and events have effected great changes, not only in the country itself. But also in the facilities for reaching it from all parts of the world, and for travelling throughout the peninsula. The public, moreover, are yearly becoming better aware of the glorious field which in India is opened up for the enjoyment of travel and sport, and of the inexhaustible opportunities afforded them for the study of an engrossing history, an interesting nationality, and an unrivalled art, as displayed not only in architectural monuments, but also in native industries and handicrafts.
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