Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official eBook

William Henry Sleeman
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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official eBook

William Henry Sleeman
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,051 pages of information about Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official.

(7.) Calcutta (Serampore), 1839, 8vo.  A REPORT on THE SYSTEM OF MEGPUNNAISM, or The Murder of Indigent Parents for their Young Children (who are sold as Slaves) as it prevails in the Delhi Territories, and the Native States of Rajpootana, Ulwar, and Bhurtpore.  By Major W. H. Sleeman. ——­ From the Serampore Press. 1839. [Thin 8vo, pp. iv and 121.  A very curious and valuable account of a little-known variety of Thuggee, which possibly may still be practised.  Copies exist in the British Museum and India Office Libraries, but the Bodleian has not a copy.]

(8.) Calcutta, 1840, 8vo.  REPORT ON THE DEPREDATIONS COMMITTED BY THE THUG GANGS of UPPER AND CENTRAL INDIA, From the Cold Season of 1836-7, down to their Gradual Suppression, under the operation of the measures adopted against them by the Supreme Government in the year 1839.

By Major Sleeman
Commissioner for the Suppression of Thuggee and Dacoitee.

Calcutta:  G. H. Huttmann, Bengal Military Orphan Press. 1840. [Thick 8vo, pp. lviii, 549 and xxvi.  The information recorded is similar to that given in the earlier Ramaseeana volume.  Pages xxv-lviii, by Captain N. Lowis, describe River Thuggee.  Copies in the British Museum and India Office, but none in the Bodleian.  This is the only work by Sleeman which has an alphabetical index.]

(9.) Calcutta 1841, 8vo.  On the SPIRIT OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE in our NATIVE INDIAN ARMY.

By Major N.[sic] H. Sleeman, Bengal Native Infantry. 
‘Europaeque saccubuit Asia.’ 
’The misfortune of all history is, that while the motives of a few
princes and leaders in their various projects of ambition are
detailed with accuracy, the motives which crowd their standards with
military followers are totally overlooked.’—­Malthus.
 Calcutta: 
Bishop’s College Press. 
M.DCCC.XLI.
[Thin 8vo.  Introduction, pp. i-xiii; On the Spirit of Military
Discipline in the Native Army of India, pp. 1-59; page 60 blank;
Invalid Establishment, pp. 61-84.  The text of these two essays is
reprinted as chapters 28 and 29 of vol. ii of Rambles and
Recollections
in the original edition, corresponding to Chapters 21
and 22 of the edition of 1893 and Chapters 76, 77 of this (1915)
edition.  Most of the observations in the Introduction are utilized in
various places in that work.  The author’s remark in the Introduction
to these essays—­’They may never be published, but I cannot deny
myself the gratification of printing them’—­indicates that, though
printed, they were never published in their separate form.  The copy
of the separately printed tract which I have seen is that in the
India Office Library.  Another is in the British Museum.  The pamphlet
is not in the Bodleian.]

(10.) 1841 Pamphlet.  MAJOR SLEEMAN on the PUBLIC SPIRIT of THE HINDOOS. From the Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, vol. 8.  Art.  XXII, Public Spirit among the Hindoo Race as indicated in the flourishing condition of the Jubbulpore District in former times, with a sketch of its present state:  also on the great importance of attending to Tree Cultivation and suggestions for extending it.  By Major Sleeman, late in charge of the Jubbulpore District.

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