Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious printer errors have been corrected.
Many words are not consistently accented, as in "chárpoy" and "charpoy", "Basarghur" and "Básurghur", "Shrad" and "Shrád". They have been left as is.
Both "labour" and "labor" appear.
The Table of Contents incorrectly gives page 93 for Chapter VIII The Doorga Poojah Festival. It is actually page 95.
Page 300 right double quote supplied: Even so far back as the Mahratta dynasty, it was said of Dowlut Rao Sindhia that "his necklaces were gorgeous, consisting of many rows of Pearls, as large as small marbles, strung alternately with emeralds.