India under Ripon: A Private Diary

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

• Abd-el-Ghaffar, Mohammed, [129].
• Abd-el-Hak of Hyderabad, [191], [194], [195], [196], [202].
• Abd-el-Latif, Nawab, head of the Sunni Mohammedans at Calcutta, [14], [86], [97], [98], [99], [104], [110], [111], [127], [131], [134], [138], [219];
• his son-in-law, Seyd Mohammed, [134], [136];
• his son, Abd-el-Rahman, [99], [108], [109], [117].
• Abd-el-Rahman Minni, Sheykh, Arab horse-dealer of Bombay, [208], [209], [211], [212], [216].
• Abd-el-Rahman, Seyd, of Madras, [41];
• his Eurasian wife, [41], [44].
• Abraham, Mr. Matthew, of Bellari, [53].
• “Abu Nadara,” James Sanua, editor of, [13], [64], [123].
• Afghans and Persians, [14], [98], [188], [192].
• Agha Khan, The Chief of the Khoja sect, residing at Bombay, [210], [211], [212], [213].
• Agricultural danger, the, [82], [236]-[254].
• Ahmed, Mulvi, Municipal Councillor of Calcutta, [110].
• Akbar Huseyn, translator of “Future of Islam,” [119]-[124], [146], [163].
• Ali Abdallah, of Hyderabad, [62], [68].
• Aligarh College, [119], [155]-[160].
• Ali Hamid Bey, Turkish Consul at Bombay, [211]-[215].
• Allahabad, [144]-[150].
• Amir Ali, the Honble. Seyd, Leader of the new school of Mohammedans at Calcutta, [86], [87], [96], [97], [98], [103], [104], [105], [110], [111], [113], [121], [128], [131], [138], [219].
• Amir Hassan, Rajah of Mahmudabad, [125], [148], [149], [152], [153], [154], [155], [229].
• Amir Huseyn, Mulvi Seyd, Deputy-Collector, [93], [97].
• Anjuman i Islam meeting at Calcutta, [124], [126].
• Arab horses, [61], [62], [66], [67], [110], [129], [208], [212].
• Arabi Pasha, [15], [22], [23], [25], [88], [98], [112], [113], [118], [124], [289].
• Arabs in India, [59], [60], [61], [65], [66], [71], [209], [211], [212], [213], [287].
• Bafiti, Mohammed, Sheykh es Saadat of Medina, [139].
• Bailey, Sir Stuart, [78], [92], [93], [109], [117], [182].
• Banerji, Surendra Nath, the Calcutta orator, [102], [109], [114], [137].
• Baring, Sir Evelyn, Lord Cromer, [11], [14], [55], [120], [167], [177].
• Barrow, General, [152].
• Beck, Mr., of Aligarh College, [156].
• Behar, Province of, [139].
• Bellari, [50]-[55];
• famine at, [54].
• Benares, [142], [143], [144].
• Benares, Maharajah of, [120], [142], [143].
• Bengal Permanent Land Settlement, [86], [94], [108], [221], [252].
• Bengal Rent Bill, [86], [93], [94], [102], [108].
• Bentinck, Lord William, [95].
• Berar Provinces, intrigue for the retention of, [58], [74], [75], [77], [83], [89], [91], [149], [179], [184]-[205], [206], [336].
• Bilgrami, Seyd Ali, [61], [63], [204].
• Bilgrami Seyd Huseyn, private secretary to Salar Jung, now member of the Indian Council in London, [61], [64], [68], [74], [75], [77], [79], [93], [185], [186], [190], [191], [199], [200].
• Bolarum, [174], [190].
• Bombay, [82], [173], [174], [208]-[226].
• “Bombay Gazette,” [191], [208].
• Bose, Mr., Secretary of the National Conference at Calcutta, [114], [118], [121].
• Bulbul of the Deccan, [198], [199], [201], [203].
• Burmah, [16], [17].
• Bushir-ed-Dowlah, nobleman of Hyderabad, [69], [73], [76], [91], [180], [182], [185].
• Calcutta, [85]-[138].
• Calcutta races, [110].
• Caliphate, Arabian, [13], [119];
• Ottoman, [63], [119], [124].
• Canning, Lord, [95], [270].
• Ceylon, [19]-[26].
• Chandanagore, [113].
• Cheragh Ali, Mulvi, of Hyderabad, [64], [70], [79], [197].
• Christians, Native, [24], [46], [51], [55], [100], [282].
• Churchill, Lord Randolph, [9], [12], [83], [84], [146], [175], [177], [230], [334].
• Clerk, Major, the Nizam’s tutor, [65], [67], [184], [198], [204];
• his letters in Appendix, [335], [336];
• Mrs., [137], [196], [197].
• Colombo, [19], [26].
• Colvin, Sir Auckland, [8], [113], [150], [272].
• Connaught, H.R.H. the Duke of, [55], [165].
• Connemara, Lord, [43].
• Constitutional Reform, plan of, [215], [310]-[326].
• Cordery, Mr., Resident at Hyderabad, [58], [80], [89], [136], [150], [174], [178], [179], [182], [184], [185], [190], [191], [193], [196], [199], [203], [206], [219], [228], [335], [336].
• Cornwallis, Lord, his land settlement of Bengal, [86].
• Council, Indian, in London, [215], [316].
• Councils, Provincial, [316], [317], [318], [319].
• Couper, Sir George, [154].
• Covenanted Civil Service, [36], [40], [43], [47], [55], [60], [75], [83], [95], [114], [116], [206], [215], [234], [267], [268], [273], [275], [310]-[318].
• Curzon of Kedleston, Lord, [91], [205], [334].
• Debt, Public, [323].
• Debts, Village, [7], [42], [232], [243]-[246].
• Deccan College, [81].
• Deccan horsemanship, [67].
• Delawar Huseyn, Deputy-Magistrate at Calcutta, [115].
• Delhi, [161]-[171];
• capture of, [169], [170];
• horrors committed at, [163], [164];
• last King of, [163], [167], [169].
• Deportation, [13], [80], [235].
• Dobbs, Colonel, [191].
• Dravidians, [23], [34].
• Dufferin, Marquess of, [177], [202], [229].
• Durand, Sir Mortimer, Secretary to the Calcutta Foreign Office, [117], [180].
• Eden, Sir Ashley, [100].
• Eid el Temini, Sheykh, Arab horse dealer at Bombay, [209], [217].
• Emperors of Delhi, [172].
• Englishwomen in India, [248], [261], [262].
• Eurasians, [41], [44], [51], [52].
• Famine, [2], [50], [54], [216], [232], [241].
• Ferdunji Nowrosji, Parsi Councillor at Bombay, [223].
• Fergusson, Sir James, Governor of Bombay, [209], [219]-[224].
• Ferid-ed-Din Ahmed, Mulvi of Cawnpore, [119], [125], [126], [139], [144], [145], [147], [148], [189].
• Ferukshah, Prince, [134].
• Finance, [247]-[254].
• Flying foxes, [65].
• Forest Laws, [42], [210], [216], [224], [241], [242].
• Frere, Sir Bartle, [81], [249].
• “Future of Islam,” [62], [112], [119], [123], [124], [126], [158], [231], [295].
• Future of self-government, [107]-[118], [234], [235], [299]-[326].
• Gaignaud, Mademoiselle, Governess in Salar Jung’s household, [70], [200];
• her account of Sir Salar Jung’s death, [200], [201].
• Geary, Mr., editor of “Bombay Gazette,” [191].
• Ghaleb Jung, an Arab of Hyderabad, [59].
• Ghose, Dr., of Calcutta, [137].
• Ghulam Mohammed Munshi, of Bombay, [212].
• Gladstone, Rt. Honble. W. E., [1]-[5], [9], [14], [83], [96], [106], [146], [208], [211].
• Godley, Sir Arthur, [180].
• Gordon, General C. G., [83], [95], [167]-[168], [189], [194], [208], [213], [230];
• my letter to, [168].
• Gordon, Sir Arthur, [24].
• Gorst, Sir John, [83], [84], [175]-[185].
• Gough, Major, in the Nizam’s service, [69].
• Grant-Duff, Sir Mount Stewart, [36], [37], [41], [45], [53], [177], [193], [196], [219].
• Gregory, Sir William, [23], [25].
• Hamilton, Sir Edward, private secretary to Mr. Gladstone, [9], [11], [122], [177], [180].
• Hanna, Mr., a Christianized Hindu, [51].
• Henderson, Mr., of the Secret Police, [186], [196], [204].
• “Hindu Patriot,” [94].
• “Hindu Prakash,” [81].
• Hindu worship, [24], [31], [32], [46], [48], [49], [282]-[285].
• Hodson, Colonel, [166], [169].
• Holkar, Maharajah, [301].
• Hörnli, Dr., Swiss Director of the Calcutta Madrasa, [98], [105], [124].
• Humayum, Emperor, his tomb at Delhi, [169].
• Humayum Jah Bahadur, head of Mohammedan community of Madras, [41].
• Hunter, Sir William, statistician, [130], [132], [133], [138], [239], [291];
• his letter in Appendix, [332].
• Hyderabad, [57]-[82], [175]-[207], [304].
• “Ideas about India,” [231], [335].
• Ik-Balet-Dowlah. See Vikar-el-Omra.
• Ikhram Ullah, of Delhi, Seyd Ahmed’s nephew, [121], [158], [161], [163], [164], [170].
• Ilbert Bill, [5], [16], [17], [44], [85], [96], [100], [102], [103], [106], [108], [109], [111], [113], [121], [132], [133], [145], [177], [269], [271], [272], [273].
• Ilbert, Mrs., [96], [130], [132];
• Sir Courtenay, [132].
• Import duties, [223], [224], [250], [251], [253].
• Income Tax, [223], [251], [252].
• “Indian Club,” [115].
• “Indian Mirror,” [85], [106].
• “Indian Spectator,” [82], [132].
• Industrial ruin, [213], [239], [240], [247]-[251], [253], [306].
• Insults to Natives, [121], [141], [146], [147], [148], [150], [152], [157], [174], [263]-[266].
• Jehan Kadur, Prince, brother of the King of Oude, [120], [125].
• Jemal-ed-Din Afghani, Seyd, [12], [13], [63], [80], [97], [99], [108], [112], [123], [128].
• Jeypore, [172].
• Jijibhoy, Sir Jamsetji, [88], [95], [214].
• Johnstone, Dr., Bishop of Calcutta, [99].
• Kabraji, Kaikhosna Nowrosji, editor of the “Rast” of Bombay, [214], [215].
• Kaisar Bagh meeting, [155].
• Kalbarga, [81], [198], [203], [204], [206], [207].
• Keay, Seymour, Mr., [58], [116], [118].
• Kebir-ed-Din, Mohammedan editor in Calcutta, [106].
• Kerr, Rev. Schomberg, S.J., Lord Ripon’s chaplain, [87], [179], [182].
• Kimberley, Earl of, Secretary of State for India, [18], [96].
• Knight, Mr., editor of “Statesman,” [92].
• Kokhnis, [213], [287].
• Kolapur, Mahratta Diwan of, [218].
• Kottub, the, [165], [170].
• Krishna, Maharajah of, [130], [131], [137].
• Kristo Das Pal, editor of “The Hindu Patriot,” Member of the Legislative Council, [94], [133].
• Laik Ali, Salar Jung (the younger). See Salar Jung.
• Lambert, Mr., head of Secret Police, [182], [185].
• Land assessment, [42], [86], [87], [130], [155], [171], [207], [213], [218], [221], [222], [225], [239].
• Land Settlement, Permanent, [94], [213], [216], [221], [222], [225], [241], [242], [252];
• recommended, [252].
• Local Self-Government Bill, [85], [213], [246], [270], [271], [272].
• Loharo, Chief of, [161], [165], [169].
• Lucknow, [150]-[155].
• Lyall, Sir Alfred, Lieutenant-Governor of North-West Provinces, [6], [11], [107], [117], [120], [144], [145], [147], [148], [149], [150], [157], [177].
• Lytton, Robert, Earl of, [6], [7], [79], [89], [94], [177], [202], [216], [335].
• Madhava Rao, Sir, [38], [88].
• Madras, [35]-[45], [303].
• Madrasa, Culcutta, [135].
• Madura, [29]-[33].
• Mahbub Ali. See The Nizam.
• Mahdi Ali, Prince, of Lucknow, [153], [154].
• Mahdi, the Soudanese, [112], [123], [125], [168], [180], [189], [194], [197], [203], [208], [209], [210], [217], [223].
• Mahmud Sami Pasha, [19], [25], [120].
• Malabari, Behramji, Parsi editor of the “Indian Spectator,” [82], [173], [177], [211], [225].
• Malays of Ceylon, [23].
• Malkum Khan, Prince, [188].
• Mandlik, Mr., [178].
• Manockji Rustemji, Mr., [88], [95].
• Mayo Hall meeting at Allahabad, [145], [149].
• Mazhar, Abd-el-Rahman, Cadi of Bagdad, [120].
• Meade, Sir Richard, [58], [84], [93].
• Mehdy Hassan, Mulvi, of Lucknow, [79].
• Mir Alum tank, [61], [193].
• Mirza Agha Khan, the Nizam’s Persian tutor, [204].
• Moguls, Last of the, [143], [144].
• Mohammed Ali Bey, Master of Nizam’s Horse, [193], [201].
• Mohammed Ibrahim, Chief Mujtahed at Lucknow, [153].
• Mohammed Yusuf, Member of Calcutta Council, [123].
• Mohammedan Question, [278]-[298].
• Mohammedans of Southern India, [27], [28], [29], [41], [45], [287], [288], [289].
• Mohunt, the, [49].
• Monier Williams, Professor, [226].
• Moore, Colonel, [165], [166], [167], [179], [184], [187], [191].
• Moors of Ceylon, [23], [25]-[27], [287], [288].
• Mukerji, Rasbihari, of Uttarpara, [101], [120];
• Sambhu Chandra, [106];
• family of, [124].
• Mullen, Dr., at Ulwar, [171].
• Mulvi A. M., [104], [107], [112], [136].
• Muteswami, Judge, of Madras, [40], [42], [44].
• National Conference at Calcutta, [114], [116], [117], [118].
• Native States, [299]-[305].
• Nawaiz Jung, Sultan El Kaiti, Prince of Hadramaut at Hyderabad, [65], [66], [79], [80].
• Nizam, Mahbub Ali, the, [62], [66], [67], [72], [77], [110], [137]-[183], [186], [189], [190], [192], [193], [195], [197], [198], [203]-[206], [210], [212], [219], [330], [334], [335], [336];
• his stables, [61], [66];
• intrigue against, [67], [70], [74], [75], [76], [89], [90], [91], [93], [109], [117], [119], [136], [179], [205], [206], [228];
• his installation, [91], [109], [119], [132], [155], [159], [175]-[207].
• Norendro Nath Sen, editor of the “Indian Mirror,” [85].
• Nur-el-Huda, Seyd, of Patna, [100], [139].
• Oude, King of, [120], [125].
• Palmer, Professor, his mission, [15], [16], [19], [166], [167].
• Parsis, [214], [285]-[287].
• Patna, [139]-[141];
• outrage case, [141], [146], [147], [174], [178], [182], [194], [264]-[266].
• Patterson, Mr., [147].
• Peishkar, the, Minister of the Nizam, [62], [70], [71], [76], [78], [137], [185], [186], [201].
• “Pioneer, The,” Anglo-Indian newspaper of Allahabad, [8], [149], [150], [159].
• Pollen, Walter, A.D.C. to Lord Ripon, [85], [177], [180], [194].
• Poona, [81].
• Poverty of India, [50], [213], [236]-[246], [254].
• Press laws, [2], [235].
• Press, Native, [255].
• Primrose, Sir Henry, Lord Ripon’s private secretary, [9], [85], [142], [167], [177], [179], [180], [191], [266].
• Princes of India, [35], [38], [162], [164], [301], [302], [304].
• Purani Palace at Hyderabad, [204].
• Queen Victoria, [2], [3], [132], [325];
• her proclamation, [132], [312].
• Race hatred, causes of, [73], [74], [100], [101], [102], [231]-[235], [255]-[277].
• Ragunath Rao, a distinguished Mahratta Brahmin of Madras, [38], [42], [43], [88], [178], [194], [219].
• Rajputana, [171], [172].
• Ramanatha, Mr., head of the Tamil community at Colombo, [24].
• Rangiar Naidu, Zemindar of Madras, [41], [50].
• Rasul Yar Khan, Nawab, of Hyderabad, [14], [59], [63], [71], [80], [182], [185], [187], [197], [198], [201], [203], [204].
• Raza Huseyn, Seyd, Kadi of Patna, [129], [139].
• Ripon, Marquis of, [1]-[4], [36], [37], [55], [76], [77], [82], [83], [85], [88]-[91], [95], [96], [109], [122], [131], [132], [136], [137], [138], [141], [147], [148], [177]-[184], [186], [187], [189]-[196], [202], [203], [205], [206], [219], [228], [229], [232], [253], [268]-[273], [315], [334]-[336];
• his character, [3], [4], [55], [96], [97], [148], [269], [270], [326];
• reasons of his failure, [5], [6], [53], [55], [95], [122], [130];
• his ideas, [37];
• talks with, [89], [90], [91], [92], [178], [179], [190], [194], [195], [196];
• his opinions about Berar, [91], [183], [184];
• his speech at the Nizam’s installation, [186], [187];
• his great popularity, [270]-[273].
• Roberts, Field Marshal Sir Frederick (Lord Roberts), [187], [189], [192], [193], [196].
• Rogay, Mr. Mohammed, wealthy Moslem of Bombay, [82], [139], [210], [211], [223], [225], [263].
• Saadut Ali, Salar Jung’s brother, [186], [193].
• Sabunji, Mr., [12], [13], [19].
• Salar Jung, Sir (the elder), [61], [63], [74], [89], [90], [149], [186], [191];
• his death, [63], [89], [173], [200], [201], [212], [300], [335].
• Salar Jung (the younger), Laik Ali, [66], [68], [70], [72], [76], [77], [90], [91], [93], [99], [109], [132], [180], [182], [183], [186], [188], [189], [190], [193], [194], [195], [197], [201], [202], [204], [205], [228], [330], [334], [335].
• Salt tax, [2], [36], [41], [50], [53], [95], [140], [158], [207], [218], [222], [223], [224], [232], [242], [243], [254].
• Sami Ullah, Mulvi, of Aligarh, [103], [105], [155], [156], [157].
• Sandwal, Dr., a Christian Hindu, [100].
• Sanskrit College, [46], [49].
• Scindia, Maharajah, [301].
• Sebapathy Ayar, a Christianized Hindu, [55], [204].
• Self-Government, the future of, [299]-[326].
• Seyd Abdallah, merchant of Mecca, [71].
• Seyd Ahmed Afghani, [187]-[188].
• Seyd Ahmed, Mulvi, of Aligarh, Founder of Aligarh College, [117], [127], [155]-[160], [181], [188].
• Shankar, Rao, Pandit, Oriental translator to Bombay Government, [222].
• Shere Ali, Amir of Afghanistan, [187], [188].
• Shiahs and Sunnis, [63], [72], [134], [151], [153], [154], [163], [212], [213], [295].
• Shooting accident, [157].
• Shustari, Seyd Ali, a poet and wag, [69], [71], [201], [203].
• Sirhadé Huseyn, of Patna, [140].
• Siva Prasad, Rajah, [120], [125].
• Solomon, our servant, [46], [174].
• Souter, Sir Frank, [216], [217].
• Southern India described, [27];
• Moslems of, [27]-[29], [41], [45], [287]-[289].
• “Statesman, The,” [136], [191].
• Stewart, Sir Donald, High Court Judge, [146], [187].
• Strachey, Sir John, [6], [142], [147], [240], [246], [253].
• Subramania Ayer, journalist of Madras, [36].
• Suleyman Kadur, Prince, [120], [125].
• Suliman Jah, Prince, of the Mogul family, [161], [162], [164], [165].
• Sultan, Ottoman, [13], [63], [64], [79], [111], [125], [161], [230].
• Tagore, Sir Jotendro Mohun, [86], [87], [96].
• Tamils, the, of Ceylon, [23], [27].
• Tanjore, [34].
• Tea Planters, [17], [18], [145].
• Telang, Kashinath, member of Bombay Council, [220], [223].
• Temple, Sir Richard, [216], [218], [249].
• Tenth Hussars, [153].
• Tippara, Rajah of, [115].
• Tirupati, [46]-[49].
• Trevelyan, Sir Charles, [40].
• Trevor, Mr., [60], [67], [80], [92], [93], [178], [199], [201].
• Trichinopoly, [33].
• Tuticorin, [27].
• Tyabji, Bedr-ed-Din, of Bombay, [225].
• University, Mohammedan, [98], [117], [119], [126], [127], [131], [133], [134], [167], [179], [190], [198], [199], [200], [202], [203], [204], [206], [208], [212], [227];
• scheme of, in Appendix, [337].
• Ulwar, [171], [172], [229].
• Uttarpara, [101].
• Varada Rao, of Madras, [38], [42], [45].
• Viceroy’s Council, Debate on the Ilbert Bill, [132], [133].
• Vikar-el-Omra, Ik Balet Dowlah, nobleman of Hyderabad, [64], [67], [69], [73], [137], [157], [182], [188], [193].
• Village evictions, [242].
• Village poverty, [50], [53], [54], [55], [87]-[94], [95], [102], [118], [140], [158], [207], [213], [232], [236], [237], [306].
• Villayet Ali, Nawab of Patna, [140], [141], [183], [264].
• Wedderburn, Sir William, Bart., [213], [215], [216], [240];
• reforms recommended by, [215].
• West, Mr., Vice-Chancellor of the Bombay University, [219], [224].
• “Wind and the Whirlwind, The,” [14], [136], [153], [184].
• Yemen, politics of, [123];
• horses of, [128], [129];
• a sheykh of, [128].

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A history of Seyyid Jemal-ed-Din Afghani, the well-known leader of Liberal Panislamism will be found in my “Secret History of the Occupation of Egypt,” 1907. Mr. Sabunji had been employed by me in Egypt, and accompanied me there on the present occasion as my secretary as far as Ceylon.

[2] When Robert Bourke, Lord Connemara, was sent as Governor to Madras in 1886, I recommended Ragunath Rao to him, and he gave him once more a post as Minister to one of the Native Princes.

[3] Seyd Huseyn Bilgrami, now member of the Indian Council in London.

[4] This refers to a talk I had had with General C. G. Gordon at the end of 1882 in which he had assured me emphatically that “no reform would ever be achieved in India without a Revolution.” Gordon, it will be remembered, accompanied Ripon, as his private secretary, to India in 1880, but soon after their landing at Bombay had resigned his place. The opposition of the covenanted civil service to any real reform had convinced him that he would be useless to Lord Ripon in an impossible task.

[5] Sir John Gorst.

[6] The late Lord Lothian.