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Glossary of Indian and Anglo- Indian Words and Phrases Note: since there is no uniform system of transliteration of Indian terms into the Latin alphabet I have followed Kipling's spellings. Words that are followed by question marks I have been unable to define. Some are perhaps typographical errors, but others may be Kipling's own spelling. archar:ji: aftaba: almirah: anna: A rains: Arayavarta: ayah: babu: badlis: Badshah: bahut accha: bakshish, bukshish: batcha: bazar: beetel: Belait: Belaitee, Bilayut: teacher, priest water pot with spout and handle wardrobe, chest of drawers one sixteenth of a rupee ? the Aryan race nurse, maid clerk, especially one who knows English transfer (from one place/station/ office to another) king very good, all right tip, payment child market aromatic leaf for chewing England specifically, Europe generally natives of England; those from across the water (Europeans)

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Glossary of Indian and Anglo­Indian Words and Phrases

Note: since there is no uniform system of transliteration of Indian terms into the Latin alphabet I have followed Kipling's spellings. Words that are followed by question marks I have been unable to define. Some are perhaps typographical errors, but others may be Kipling's own spelling.

archar:ji: aftaba: almirah: anna: A rains: Arayavarta: ayah:

babu:

badlis:

Badshah: bahut accha: bakshish, bukshish: batcha: bazar: beetel: Belait:

Belaitee, Bilayut:

teacher, priest water pot with spout and handle wardrobe, chest of drawers one sixteenth of a rupee ? the Aryan race nurse, maid

clerk, especially one who knows English transfer (from one place/station/ office to another) king very good, all right tip, payment child market aromatic leaf for chewing England specifically, Europe generally natives of England; those from across the water (Europeans)

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290

benaoti: bhai-bund

bhisti:

bhoosa: bokhar: bud mash: Budndming: buggalow: bund: bundobust: bunnias: bus: bus tee:

byle: bylewalla:

chabil: chalder: changar: chaprassi: charpoy: chatty: chick, chik: chillum:

chirag: chit: choga: chop, chup: chor do: chota: chota hazree: chowki: chowkidar: chudder: chumar: chunam:

Kipling's India

? brotherhood; family and friends; community water carrier (literally, one from Paradise) hay fever rogue ? Arab vessel dike, wall arrangement, system, agreement traders, merchants stop, enough settlement, village (in the city, a slum) ox ox driver

? perhaps chader =blanket? earth workers messenger cot earthern pot bamboo blind or screen part of the hookah containing the tobacco and charcoal; or, the whole arrangement clay lamp note loose upper garment, robe be quiet; shut up let go small, little early breakfast toll house, police station watchman sheet, cover leather worker (low caste) lime, plaster

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chupper: consumah: see khansamah

dacoit: dak: darogah: degchies: dekko: dhak: dhobie: dikked: doabs:

doolie: doomb; doomba: duftar: Durbaies: durbar: dustoor, durtoorie:

ekka:

ferash: fitton:

gaoli: ghariwans: gharri: ghee, ghi: goal/a: godown: go or: gorah log: gowallas: see goalla gram: gnffin: gutkas: gureeb: gurrah:

Glossary

thatched roof

robber (in a gang) post, mail, journey local (village) constable cooking utensils look, peep flowering tree of the Punjab washerman troubled

291

the territory between two conflu­ent rivers a covered litter fat-tailed sheep office ? court, levee, public audience custom, commission

one-horse, two-wheeled vehicle

menial servant phaeton, I.e., a four-wheeled carnage

perhaps an error for goalla drivers cart, carriage clarified butter cowherd warehouse molasses white men

chick-peas tenderfoot, newcomer to India ? poor, docile clay water pot

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292

Hajii:

Hakim: Hazur-ki-parwashti:

holi: hookah: hookum: howdah:

hulwaie:

izzat:

jat:

jezail: jhampanies: jhool: juldee ao:

kabab: kafir: kala admis: kamra: kanats: karait: karkhana: kazi: kerritch hogya: khansamah: khinkhab: khitmatgar: khud: kivaste: kizilbashes:

koil: kubberdar: kunkar, kunkur:

Kipling's India

one who has made pilgrimage to Mecca doctor thanks for the generosity of the powerful one spring festival water pipe for smoking an order chair or seat carried by an ele­phant confectioner

respect, honour

one of a peasant class; noted as big and strong heavy Afghan rifle sedan chair carriers horse blanket come quickly

meat on skewers infidel black men room canvas enclosures small deadly snake workshop, department Muslim law officer ? butler, steward gold brocade house servant brink, steep hill side for the use of, for Persianised Turks, named for their red caps; a community of them in Afghanistan small singing bird take care, look out small pebbles, gravel

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kutcha:

kutcherry:

lakh: lath£: lon: latah:

madressa: ma£dan: mallee; mall£ mass ala: maulv£s: maund: mehter: mela: mimbar: m£stri: moe hi: mohurrir: munszff: munzar: mussalch£: must:

na£b: nats: nauker: netschies: nokr£: nullah:

ooplah:

pagal: pagdundies, pugdund£es: paisa: pal: palki:

Glossary 293

makeshift, temporary, substitute, poor (antonym of pukka) court, administrative office

100,000 stick, club red powder brass pot

Muslim school open space, park, common gardener spice mixture learned men, professors measure of weight, varying widely sweeper festival a maulvi's pulpit carpenter leather worker, shoemaker writer in a native language native judge ? kitchen helper, scullion mad, drunk

deputy jugglers servant ? job, employment watercourse

dried cow dung for fuel

mad, foolish paths money small tent small compartment, box

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294 Kipling's India

pardahneshin: see purdah nashin phenyl-ki-diwai: phenyl-as-medicine pice, pie: small coin; money pipal: large fig tree poora: the whole, all of it poshteen: Afghan fur-lined coat or robe puggris: turbans pukka, pucca: genuine, substantial, permanent,

pummeloe: punkah:

superior: opposite of kutcha large citrus fruit large fixed swinging fan, pulled by a rope

purdah: curtain, veil purdah nashin, pardah-nishin: woman secluded behind the

screen or curtain

razses: rezaz: rickshaw:

rupee:

safkaro: sazs: see syce sahib-to gues: saloo: saree: seraz:

shabash: shamiana: shisham: shroff: sida: sirdar: siris: sirkar: solah topee: so or: soorkee:

respectable natives a quilt two-wheeled passenger cart pulled by a coolie standard coin of the Indian money system

clean it

Europeans red cloth woman's dress inn, rest house, built around a courtyard well done, bravo tent tree, valuable for timber money lender straight leader, captain acacia tree government pith helmet plg pounded brick used in paving

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so war: spins: sudder judge: sunnyast: syce:

tahsildars:

takkus: tamasha: tar: tat, tattoo: tazias:

teapoy: tehsils:

tharrahs: thermantido te: ticca gharri: tzffin: t£kkah: tonga:

vakil:

yahoos:

zemindar: ziafut:

Glossary

horseman, rider spinsters, young women chief judge under Muslim law Hindu religious mendicant groom

295

native revenue officer; chief col­lector tax show, spectacle, entertainment telegram (literally wire) native-bred pony images of the tombs of Hussein and Hassan, carried in the Mohur­rum procession small tripod table administrative district ( cf. tahsil­dar) ? cooling device fitted in a window hired carriage lunch ornamental mark on forehead light two-wheeled carriage

attorney

breed of Afghan horse

landholder ?

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Index

Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan, 7, 145,146,269-75,280

durbar with Lord Dufferin, 77ff list of his attendants, 79-80

Aden, 52-3 Afghanistan, description of, 266-71 Afghanistan, Amir of see Abdur Rahman Afzul, horse trader, 141, 143-5 Aga Hyder-Shah, 79 Aitchison, Sir Charles, 193, 195,197,

199,200,201,262 Albani, 182 Alexander the Great, 220 Ali, Caliph, 266 Ali Baba (pseudonym of G. A. Mackay),

159 Ali Musjid, 79, 85, 86 Aligarh, 165 Allahabad, 11, 281 Allardyce, Alexander, The City of

Sunshine, 265, 267 Allen, Sir George, 9 Alum Sher, Cabuli horse trader, 145-6 Amritsar (Umritsar), 164

fair, 52ff golden temple, 51, 58-9 Fort Govindghur, 53

Anarkali (Anarkullee), suburb of Lahore, 70

Anderson, Colonel, 54 Anderson, Mary, 182 Anderson, M.J., 92, 217 Arundel,Mr,216 Atkins, .Colonel, 54

Babbage, Charles, 38 Baber, 220 Baber gardens, Cabul, 271, 273 Bahawalpore, 102 Bahool, 145

Balkh, 145 Ballard, Ellis Ames, 13 Ballard-Martindell pamphlets, 265 Bambridge, Mrs George (Elsie Kipling),

14,15 Barlow, Mr, 40 Barrett, Wilson, 182 Bartholomew, Major, 217 Bayliss, a soldier, 228 Beatrice, Princess, 30 Bengal Cavalry, 3rd, 101 Bengal Cavalry, 5th, 194,196, 197 Bengal Cavalry, 9th, 54 Bengal Cavalry, 12th, 86, 87 Bengal Cavalry, 15th, 54, 93, 101 Bengal Cavalry, 18th, 54,93 Bengal Lancers, 14th, 54, 93, 94, 101,

266 Bengal Lancers, 19th, 101 Bernhardt, Sarah, 283 Bhimber River, 252 Bhora, 219 Bias River, 206 Bicquet, Mr, 216 Biddulph, Sir Michael, 94, 100 Bird, Colonel, 54 Bird, Isabella, japan, 159 Birkenhead, Lord, 15 Blanford, 14 7 Bocquet, Mr W. S., 136 Boers, 111 Bombay, 1 Bombay Tramways Company, 144-5 Boydell, Mr, 216 British Museum, 206 Broome, L. N., 217 Browne, Mr, 216 Browning, Robert, 'A Soul's Tragedy',

202,203 Brydell, Mr, 222

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Index 297

Budkhak(Butkhak),145, 271 Burma, fighting in, 179 Burnaby, Colonel Frederick Gustavus,

109, 111 Burnell, Arthur, Hobson-Jobson, 158-

60 Byron, Lord, 124

Cabul (Kabul), 145, 146, 270-5 Calcutta, 260 Calcutta Review, 8, 81 Calcutta Tramway Company, 144 Carabiniers, 101 Carrington, Charles, 15 Carroll, Lewis, 254-7

Alice in Wonderland, 251, 266 'Jabberwocky', 255-7 Through the Looking Glass, 255

Cass, Miss, 243, 246 Chak-Nizam bridge, 215-23 Chamberlain, General, 30 Chandler, Admiral Lloyd H., Summary

of the Work of Rudyard Kipling, 13

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 34 Chenab River, 206, 251 Cheshire Regiment, 100 Chiragan festival, 148-53 Chivers, Thomas Holley, 204, 206 Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, 259,

281-2 RKjoins, 1 its operation, 3ff editorial content, 4-5, 31 extant files, 17-18 format revised, 10-11, 243-6 production of, 3-6, 25 'tum-overs', 10-11

Oarke, Mr, 34, 41 Codrington, Captain, 174 Codrington, Charles Hay Acland, 174 Codrington, Katherine Mary, 174 Codrington, Lucy Elizabeth, 174 Codrington, Susan Elizabeth, 174 Cole, Mr, 222 Cornell, Louis, Kipling in India, 14, 16 Coveney, Bandsman, 226, 227 Crofts, W. C., RK's schoolmaster, 12 Crofts collection, 12

Dagshai, 167 Dalhousie, 45 Dante, Inferno, 83 Davies, Captain, 216 Delhi, 195, 259 Dennys, Dr, 217 Dennys, Mr, 217 Dhakka(Daka), 78,80,145 Dhera Ghazi Khan, 216, 223 Dhera Ismail Khan, 216, 223 Dickens, Charles, 134

Hard Times, 218 Dufferin, Lord, Viceroy of India, 7, 7 7,

99 message from, 223

dynamite, 229, 230

Eliot, George, 17 Elliott, Major T., 173 Englishman, Calcutta, 8, 10, 15

Faridkot, 1 02 Farren, Nellie, 182 Fatima, 266 Faust, 182 Ferozepore, 63, 206, 207, 214, 216,

259 Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers, 193,

194,195,196-7,199 Ford, Captain Matthew, 172-3 'France, La', dirigible, 172-3

Gardi Sharkhani, 79 Garstin, Charles Corbett, 173 Ghazerabad, 260 Gibbon, Edmund, 205 Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, 245 Gilchrist, Connie, 182 Gill, Captain William, River of Golden

Sand, 159 ginseng root, 159-60 Gladstone, William Ewart, 104, 107 Globe, London, 1 0 Golam Hyder, 80, 90 Goorkhas, see Gurkhas Gordon, Colonel Conway, 216 Gordon, General, 89, 90 Grand Trunk Road, 252, 258, 262, 263,

264

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298 Index

Grey, Sir George, 30 Griffith, Ralph, 178 Grover, Colonel, 54 Gugger (Gugga, Ghaggar) River, 163ff,

258, 261 Guides, the (Indian army), 54, 100, 101 Gujrat, 249, 251, 253 Gunda Singh, 207 Gundarnak, 145 Gurkhas, 1st, 100 Gurkhas, 4th, 100 Gurkhas, 5th, 100

Hall Line Steamers, 216 Hammond, Major, 54 Harbord, R. H., Reader's Guide to

Rudyard Kipling's Work, 13, 265 Harrington, Mr, 216 Harte, Bret, 11 Hassan, Imam, 265, 266 Hayes, Captain Matthew Horace, 154-8,

160-3 Henderson, Colonel, 94 Henry Gould, an epic, 203--4 Herodotus, 261 Highland Light Infantry, 100 Hiley, Mr, 221 Hill, Mrs Edmonia, 13, 282 Home, Colonel, 155 Hoshiapur, 19 Houghton Library, Harvard, 16 Hugli bridge, 213 Hugo, Victor, Toilers of the Sea, 147 Hussein, Imam, 265, 266 Hyder Ali, 91

India Office, 278 India Office Library, London, 18 Indian Antiquary, 176 Indian Civil Service, 232, 236, 278 Indian Engineering, 208 Indian Planter's Gazette, 8 Indus River, 206, 216 Irving, Sir Henry, 182

Jacob, Mr, 216 Jehangir, 194 J ellalabad, 145 Jhelum, 220

Jhelum Oeium) River, 206, 215, 217 Jhind, 102 Johnstone, Captain, 216 Journal de St Petersborough, 7 Jugdullack, 271 Jummoo Oammu) hills, 251, 252 Jumrad Oamrud,Jumrood), 30, 78,

85-90, 275

Kaisarin-i-Hind (Empress of India) bridge, see Sutlej bridge

~ka, 163,167,258 Kandahar, Afghanistan, 275 Kapurthalla, see Kupurthalla Karachi, 221

National Archives, 18 Kazi Kootb-ud-din, 79 Kean, Edmund, 182 Kemble, John Philip, 182 Khan, Field Marshal Ayub, 18 Khyber Pass, 78, 85-6, 88 King-Harman, Major Wentworth,

108-11 King's Dragoon Guards, 93, 94, 101 Kipling, Alice Macdonald (RK's

mother), 1, 147 Kipling, John Lockwood (RK's father),

1, 32, 60, 78 Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936),

appointed to CMG 1 1885 diary, 17 canon of his work, 12-17 editorial duties on 3ff, 9-10 on Pioneer, 11, 12, 281-2 pseudonyms, 8, 31 representative themes, 22--4 return to Lahore, 282, 285 scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, 9,

14, 15 views about India, 18-22 works: Abaft the Funnel, 12 'As Easy as ABC', 229 'Ballad of the King's Mercy', 269 'The Bridge Builders', 206 'The City of Dreadful Night', 7 'The City of Two Creeds', 265 'The Courting of Dinah Shadd', 135 Departmental Ditties, 7, 64

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Kipling, Rudyard - continued 'The Files', 204 From the Sea to Sea, 12

Index

'The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows', 8, 12

'In the House of Sudhoo', 9 Indian Railway Library, 282 Kim, 141 Kipling Birthday Book, 12 Letters of Marque, 7 'The Other Side of the Question', 10 The Phantom 'Rickshaw, 11 Plain Tales from the Hills, 10, 12,

154,170,282 'Quo Fata Vocant', 193-4 'The Serai Cabal', 236 The Smith Administration, 236 Soldiers Three, 11, 282 Something of Myself, 3, 6, 243 'The Story of Muhammad Din', 141 'The Taking of Lungtungpen', 179 'Tod's Amendment', 112 Wee Willie Winkie, 11, 112 'Week in Lahore', 8, 31 'What the People Said', 193 'With the Night Mail', 229

Krakatoa, explosion of, 35 Kxebs,AJthur, 229 K.Iebs-Reynard dirigible, see 'France, La' Kupurthalla, 63, 102

Lahore, 2, 19, 21,180,215,216,223, 249,250,266,282-5

Accountant General's Office, 200 Badami Bugh, 267 cemeteries, 14 7 Delhi Gate, 19, 70, 201, 266, 267 Fort Lahore, 194, 201 Golden Musjid (mosque), 267 Huzuri Bagh, 194, 201 Jubilee in, 193-202 Lawrence Hall Gardens, 32 Mayo Hospital, 75 milk supply in, 69ff Montgomery Hall, 180 Mohurrum festival in, 265-9 municipal elections in, 36-42 municipal meeting in, 66ff Museum, 200

Punjab Club, 253 race course, 224-8 railway shops, 140 rail way station, 34 Runjit Singh, tomb of, 201 Shahdera Mosque, 194, 198 Shalimar gardens, 148-53 Shalmi gate, 267 Soneri Musjid (mosque), 267 Sultan Serai, visit to, 141-6 Taksali gate, 201, 267 town hall, 199, 200 veterinary school, Wazir Khan, Mosque of, 267

Lala Musa, 217, 223, 249, 251 Lance, Colonel, 54 Lancers, 9th, 101 Langtry' Lily' 191 Lawrence,Lord,30 Leigh, Lieutenant, 80

299

Lesage, Alain Rene, Le Diable Boiteux, 125-34

Lind,Jenny, 181 Lion of the Punjab, see Ranjit Singh List, Mr, 216 Livingston, Flora, Bibliography of

Rudyard Kipling, 13, 15 local self-government, Ripon's policy

of, 36,41-2 'lokil sluff', see local self-government Lovett, Colonel, 216 Ludhiana, 63 Lundi Kotal, 78, 80 Lyall, Sir Alfred, 215, 216, 218-19

'The Land of Regrets', 125, 131, 134 speech by, 220, 222

Lytton, Lord, Viceroy of India, 27

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 176 Macdowall, Brigade Surgeon Cameron,

The First Empress of the East, 203-6

Lady Margaret's Sorrows, 203 Macleod, Sir Donald, 30 Macready, William Charles, 182 Magnon, Herve, 229 Mahabharata, The, 175-8 Mallet, Mr, 216

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300

Manchester Regiment, 2nd, 101 Martindell, Captain Ernest W., 13 Martini·Henry rifle, 89, 90, 92, 273 Max Muller, Friedrich, 176 Menken, Adah Isaaks, 182 Menzies, Colonel, 216 Mercer, Mr, 216 Meredith, George, Shaving of Shagpat,

255 Mian Mir, cantonments, 2, 180, 194 Milton, John, 34 Moberley, Captain, 135, 136, 137 Mohurrum festival, 265-9 Money, Captain, 54 Monier-Williams, Sir, 176 Montez, Lola, 182 Mooltan, see Multan Morris, William, 175 Multan (Mooltan), 32, 216, 220, 223 Muridki, 250 Murray, General, 199 Murree, 250, 251 Mustaphabad, 264, 265

Nabha, 102 Napier of Magdala, Lord, 30 National Trust, 14 Native Infantry, 24th, 194 Nicholl, Mr, 59 Nisbet, Colonel, 216 Nordenfeldt gun, 136, 139-40 Norman-Neruda, Wilma Maria, 182 North Western railway, 136, 164, 201,

210, 249-54, 259 Nouveau Temps, 7

Index

Patiala, 7, 102,257,261 Mohindar College, 7, 26,257 Moti Bagh, gardens of, 27 palace of, 27-31 state museum, 27-30

Patiala, Maharajah of, elder: Mohindra Singh, 26, 27

Patiala, Maharajah of, younger, 26 Patti, Adelina, 30, 182 Pennington, Colonel, 54 Pepys, Samuel, 94 Perkins, Mr, Commissioner, 94 Peshawar, 78, 81-5, 88, 91-3, 145,

172, 270, 271, 275 Pioneer, Allahabad, 3, 7, 8, 10, 15,

281 RK's career on, 11 see also Week's News

Price, Cormell, 175 Public Services Commission, 235-6 Public Works Department, 211, 213 Punjab Cavalry, 1st, 54 Punjab Cavalry, 2nd, 54 Punjab Cavalry, 3rd, 54 Punjab College, Lahore, 34 Punjab Native Infantry, 1st, 100 Punjab Native Infantry, 19th, 100 Punjab Native Infantry, 21st, 100 Punjab Native Infantry, 24th, 101, 196 Punjab Native Infantry, 25th, 101 Punjab Native Infantry, 32nd, 194, 196 Punjab Northern Railway, 98 Punjab Rifle Volunteers, 1st, 34, 100,

196, 197, 199

Northbrook, Lord, Viceroy of India, 26 Punjab Rifle Volunteers, 3rd, 196 Punjab Volunteers 93 Pyne,Mr,269,271,274,275

O'Callaghan, Mr, 223 O'Connor, H., 217 O'Dwyer, Mr, 217 O'Meara, Dr A., his experience in

Afghanistan, 269-75 Otto gas engines, 246

Paganini, Nicolo, 181, 280 Paghman, Afghanistan, 271, 273, 274 Pall Mall Gazette, 175 Parker, Alexander Duncan, 173 Parker, Mr, 34, 41

rack-a-rock (explosive), 229, 230 Railway Volunteers, 140 Raiwind,206,207 Rajpura, 257, 259, 262 Rajputana, 214 Ramayana, The, 178 Ramsay,James, 216,220,223

speech by, 220-2 Ranjit Singh (Lion of the Punjab), 194,

201 Ravi (Ravee) River, 206, 250

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Index 301

Rawalpindi (Pindi, Rawul Pindi), 77, 93, 95-104, 216, 249

Rees, Thomas Edward, 172, 173 Renard, Charles, 229 Reuter's, news agency, 107 Rewari, 259 Rifle Brigade, 100 Rig Veda, 178 Ripon,Lady,26 Ripon, Lord, Viceroy of India, 7, 19,

26,27,36,262 Roberts, R. W., 216 Robertson, Major, 54 Robinson, Edward Kay, editor of CMG,

10,15,243,282 roburite (explosive), 229, 230 Roy, Pratap Chandra, 175, 176 Royal Horse Artillery, 86, 102 Royal Irish Fusiliers, 93, 100 Russia, 107-8

activity in Asia, 7 8

Salisbury, Lord, 107 Sandford, Mr, 136 Sandiford, Mr, 216 Sarkhab, 145 Schneider, Hortense, 182 Second Queen's Regiment, 179 Serai Bunjara, 261 Shah Jehan, 148 Shahpur,215,219,220 Sharanpur, 260 Sher Shah, 216 Shinwaris, 270 Sialkote, 63, 251 Siddons, Sarah, 182 Sikhs, 3rd, 101 Sikhs, 14th, 100 Sikkur bridge, 213 Simbul station, 262 Simla, 7,104-18, 180,223,257,274

children of, 111-18 child's entertainment in, 116-18 departing from, 258 Gaiety Theatre, 116 Lakka bazaar, 107 old cemetery in, 170-5 Town Hall, 265

travel to and from, 163-70 United Service Institute, 109

Sind Sagar Railway, 216, 223 Sirhind, 262, 264, 265 Sit tang River, 179 Solon (place), 167 Soudan,107, 108 South Lancashire Regiment, 52-3 Spence, Andrew, 219 Spence, James, 216, 219, 220, 222 Stevenson, Rohert Louis, 282 Stewart, James MeG., Rudyard Kipling:

A Bibliographical Catalogue, ed. A. W. Yeats, 13

Strachey, Sir John and Sir Richard, 30 Sue, Eugene, Le Mome-au-Diable, 81 Sufi Hag Khan, Afghan dental worker,

274, 275 Sultan Serai, see Lahore Sutlej bridge, 206-14, 215 Sutlej River, 206,207,209,211,212,

214 Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels, 142,

231 Swinburne, Algernon, 246

Tait, Mr, 222 Talmage, 269 Tara Devi, 167 Taylor, Bayard, 183 Ted (Kerr), assistant to Captain Hayes,

155-7, 161, 162 Ten Thousand a Year (Samuel Warren),

262 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 32,

Maud,43, 44 Terris, William, 182 Terry,Ellen,182 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 169 Thackwell, Lieutenant, 216 Thirty-Third (Infantry) Regiment, 98,

100 Thompson, Margaret, 172, 173 Ticket collector, his poetry, 249 Ticknor, Mr, 136 Toole, John Lawrence, 182 Tribune,Lahore,36,41 Trouville-sur-Khud, see Simla Turkistan, 145, 146

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302 Index

Turton, Captain Henry Zouch, 173

Umballa (Amballa), 163, 164, 195, 258, 259,261,264

University of Sussex Library, 14, 16, 17, 18

Upcott, F. R., speech by, 216,219,221, 222,223

Victoria, Queen, 1 73 jubilee, 2, 193-202

Victoria bridge, see Chak-Nizam bridge Von Donop, LieutenantS. B., 136, 139

Wales, Prince of (afterwards Edward VII), 27,30

Wallace, Lieutenant-Colonel, 135, 137 Waterfield, Colonel, 78, 89, 90 Watt, A. P., 15 Watt, A. S., 15 Wazirabad, 251

Week's News, RK's work for, 11, 282 Wells, a soldier, 227 Wheeler, Stephen, editor CMG, 3, 6, 7,

9,10,15,45 Whitman, Walt, 27, 64-5 William IV, 173 Williams, Mr, 216 Wilson, General Thomas Fourness,

108-9, 110-11 Wilson, Mr, 21 7 Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, 13n. Wordsworth, William, 'Alice Fell', 99 Wymer, George Crespigny, 174 Wynne,Mr,222

Yezid, Caliph of Damascus, 266 Young, Mackworth, 216 Yule, Sir Henry,Hobson-]obson,

158-60

Zen Avesta, 233