Abstract

India and Its Native Princes

The article presents information on the book "India and Its Native Princes: Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal," by Louis Rousselet. Rousselet's journeying began in 1864, and was accomplished by all the prevailing modes of conveyance, including railway carriage, oddest of all being his experience with the Rajah of Punnah, with whom he "set out on a tiger and panther hunt in one of the wildest regions of India," drawn along by a road locomotive over a stuccoed sort of highway made expressly for it. lie had introductions to the first native circles, and was entertained with great magnificence at the court of the Guicowar of Baroda, not, as people make out, the corrupt and profligate ruler accused last year of an attempt to poison the British Resident, but the predecessor and very "moral" of him.