I seem to have missed something to do with buildings on Park Street. The attached came to me with the comment "See what is happening to Park Mansions !" If memory serves, there were two entries into a large courtyard with large, typically colonial building. Wishes Sally Stewart

For what it is worth. Churchill was once stationed at Fort St. George Madras. While I was stationed there in 1947, the fort barber assured me that he had once cut Churchill's hair. I was not able to confirm if he was still using the same comb, scissors and razor. Alfred Vieyra. -----Original Message----- From: india-british-raj-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:india-british-raj-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:13 AM To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Walter Thompson - Churchill's Bodyguard **** Winston Churchill had served in India as a young Army officer and he believed that India should remain as part of the British Empire. However, on a speaking tour of the USA, an Indian Nationalist organisation forced Walter to draw his gun on three occasions in order to protect Winston's life. **** Walter Thompson was Churchill's trusted bodyguard, who saved his master from thirteen assassination attempts during World War II. Churchill's Bodyguard DVD Starting Saturday 10th May, there is a series of 13 free DVDs in The Telegraph Newspaper entitled "Churchill's Bodyguard". Narrated by Robert Powell this series tells the story of Winston Churchill's life, extracted from the unpublished memoirs of Walter Thompson. Details at: http://whizzbang.biz/blog28/2008/05/06/churchills-bodyguard-dvd/ ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

**** Winston Churchill had served in India as a young Army officer and he believed that India should remain as part of the British Empire. However, on a speaking tour of the USA, an Indian Nationalist organisation forced Walter to draw his gun on three occasions in order to protect Winston's life. **** Walter Thompson was Churchill's trusted bodyguard, who saved his master from thirteen assassination attempts during World War II. Churchill's Bodyguard DVD Starting Saturday 10th May, there is a series of 13 free DVDs in The Telegraph Newspaper entitled "Churchill's Bodyguard". Narrated by Robert Powell this series tells the story of Winston Churchill's life, extracted from the unpublished memoirs of Walter Thompson. Details at: http://whizzbang.biz/blog28/2008/05/06/churchills-bodyguard-dvd/ ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

G'day folks, My wife and and I try to watch The Antique Roadshow shown here on YV at 5pm on weekdays. The last two days have been from Leeds. Todays show was from The National Armoury Museum in Leeds. I saw a set of armour for an Elephant - it must have come from India. For those who don't live in Leeds ..... See... http://www.royalarmouries.org/home Yes - just looked - and found the Hathi. http://www.royalarmouries.org/visit-us/leeds/leeds-galleries/oriental/india ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

G'day Shirley, On 05/05/2008, at 8:42 PM, Shirley Abraham wrote: << I am trying to look for Gerry Mc Phail- he was bon in McCluskiganj in Jharkhand, India and settled in the UK in 1962. His homepage address is http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gerry_McPhail/ but the email id mentioned there isnt working. (gerry_mcphail@compuserve.com) Does anybody have a contact for him, or anybody still living in McCluskiganj? >> You might know what Gerry looks like - if so please go to. www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk/public/news/tribute.asp and http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gerry_McPhail/ ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

Hello, I am trying to look for Gerry Mc Phail- he was bon in Mc Cleuskiganj in Jharkhand, India and settled in the UK in 1962. His homepage address is http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gerry_McPhail/ but the email id mentioned there isnt working. (gerry_mcphail@compuserve.com) Does anybody have a contact for him, or anybody still living in Mc Cleuskiganj? Thanks, Shirley.

05/05/2008 Quoting from - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/05/05/btrigg105.xml Diana Rigg is quite a private figure, although she did talk about her past in a television series, Empire's Children, last year. She was born in Doncaster in 1938, but her parents were based in India. Her father, Louis Rigg, was a railway engineer who worked for the Maharaja of Bikaner, Ganga Singh. His wife Beryl returned to Britain for the birth of her daughter, then returned to India. Although Rigg felt a bit guilty about her Empire upbringing during the anti-Establishment 1960s, she is now fiercely proud of her father's contribution to the Raj. "The programme was celebrating the Empire, and about time too. My father owed a great deal to the Empire. And so did I. He actually served the Indians and worked for them. He was much liked by his workforce. So the programme was a lovely opportunity to pay homage to him and to the Empire." The programme also gave Rigg a chance to revisit India. "It was fine, lovely to go back to where we had once lived. Wasn't remotely spooky. The first place we lived in was completely tumbled down. Extraordinary how small it was. And then the second house was enormous. It was vast. And we had a lot of Indian servants looking after us. And then, of course, we came back to postwar England - miserable, not a banana in sight, let alone a Mars bar." Rigg was appointed a CBE in 1988 and a dame in 1994 for her many contributions to theatre and film. ============================= ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Another glimpse of Arthur Herman's new book on Gandhi and Churchill is available here: http://cvillewords.com/2008/05/03/espionage-and-history-at-new-dominion-bookshop/ May 3, 2008 Arthur Herman, Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Quote: ***Although Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill met only once, their paths were set on a collision course from the 1890s through the darkest hours of World War Two. In the end, after decades of struggle and failure, their forty year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. Now, bestselling historian Arthur Herman has written a fascinating and meticulously researched new history and the first book to detail the unexplored relationship between these iconic personalities. Born five years and several thousand miles apart, Gandhi and Churchill couldn't seem more different- Churchill as a member of one of Britain's most glamorous and aristocratic families, Gandhi a part of a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Gandhi & Churchill reveals how both men were more alike than different, and went on to became bitter enemies over the future of India. In this scrupulously investigated work, Herman illustrates how their titanic contest of wills would decide the fate of nations, continents, peoples, and ultimately an empire. Gandhi & Churchill sets the struggle for Indian independence against the backdrop of the most traumatic episodes of the twentieth century, from the outbreak of the Great War to the end of World War Two, and illustrates how each radically transformed the other-and transformed the lives of these two heroic personalities. The book is illuminated with dozens of photographs and maps, illustrating the swath of power and destruction these men oversaw, and how their power and influence changed the face of the globe. "Arthur Herman offers a balanced and elegant account which captures both Churchill's generosity of spirit and Gandhi's greatness of soul. While recognizing their faults, he shows what motivated them and made them great - with impressive research that in Churchill's words leaves "no stone unturned, no cutlet uncooked." The last two chapters, and the author's Conclusion, are alone worth the price of what must become the standard work on the subject." - Richard M. Langworth, Editor, Finest Hour, The Churchill Centre Arthur Herman is the bestselling author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World as well as The Idea of Decline in Western History and To Rule the Waves. He has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, George Mason University, and the University of the South. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. *** unquote ================================= ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

**** How the British built an empire in India, conquering one of the most ancient and powerful civilizations in the world, is an epic of heroism, sacrifice, ruthlessness, and greed. But it is also the story of a growing sense of mission, even destiny: the growing conviction that the British were meant to rule India not only for their own interests but for the sake of the Indians as well. That belief would decisively shape the character not only of the British Empire in India but also of Randolph's son Winston Churchill- the man into whose hands the destiny of the Raj would ultimately fall. **** The above is a quote excerpted from Chapter One of a new book ''Gandhi & Churchill: The Churchills and the Raj'', written by Arthur Herman. Pub - Bantam/ Random House, Inc. Full text of the excerpt is online in the issue dated May 2, 2008, of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/05/04/eaelephant104.xml or http://tinyurl.com/5g44kv ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

G'day folks, On 04/05/2008, at 3:29 PM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: << On the other hand, we have people here who have had a personal, first-hand feel of the Raj. Some, who had their ancestors here. It would be great hearing from all of them. I urge all of you to share your memories with us - before Time the Old Man moves on. >> I second that thought. It would make this List much more interesting than it is now. ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

Hello - May I intrude with something as trivial as a request for a recipe. Could somebody please email me a simple method for turning guavas into cheese - please. Needed in a hurry as the fruit once picked, ripens far too quickly and I can't 'put away' any more of them without risking stomach ache ! My experience remembered from childhood days in Lillooah and the guava tope at the back of Bridge's house. A lovely way to spend a lazy afternoon, high in the branches gorging as many guavas as a six year old tummy could comfortably hold ! (Better that the flying foxes didn't get them first.) Wishes Sally

Yes please - I'd like a copy of Virtual Verandah. Please send me details. Hazel Craig

"The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun," by Henry Singleton, c.1800 "HENRY SINGLETON, R.A., 1766-1839. THE LAST EFFORT AND FALL OF TIPPOO SULTAUN. This dramatic composition is the third in a series of four pictures which Singleton painted c.1800. The other three compositions illustrate The Surrender of the Two Sons of Tippoo Sultaun to Sir David Baird, The Assault and Taking of Seringapatam, and The Body of Tippoo Sultaun recognised by his Family." This and other wonderful images at: http://www.gsas.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/tipusultan/death/death.html ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

TIPPOO'S TIGER >From THE PENNY MAGAZINE, Aug. 15, 1835 ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India **** THE engraving at the end of this article is an accurate representation of a strange toy or plaything, supposed to have been constructed for the amusement of Tippoo Sultan, sovereign of the Mysore, by some European artist at his court. It was found in the palace at Seringapatam after Tippoo's defeat and death, in 1799, in an apartment appropriated to the reception of musical instruments, and was presented to the museum of the East India Company by the army. It represents a tiger in the act of tearing to pieces a prostrate soldier,--intended for an Englishman. The tusks of the animal have just penetrated the collar-bone of the soldier, who is lying on his back, stiff as a Dutch doll, with the tiger standing upon him; the fore-paws resting on his chest, and the hind-paws on his thighs. The representation is altogether of the most primitive description, as the engraving will testify. The attitude of the tiger is perhaps not so bad, but that of the man is very ludicrous: the left hand is placed on his mouth,--the right arm, in soldierly attitude, straight down by his side;--the legs are stiff, and the feet, with well-blacked shoes and painted-yellow buckles, are turned out as though upon drill. The dress of this figure is equally droll with his attitude. He has a round black hat, with a low crown, and broad brim. His coat is scarlet, adorned with large roses, and two gilded epaulettes;--his breeches are green, and his stocking yellow. But the great object for which this group was constructed, and the part which is said to have given the greatest delight to its royal owner, was the machinery which it contained. **** [snip]

Today is 04th May. On this day in 1799, Tippoo of Mysore was killed at Seringapatam and his kingdom divided between Britain and the Nizam of Hyderabad in India. ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

<<< ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Stabler" Harshoo! I repeat I enjoy your erudition and this site would be lost without you. ================================= Thanks for the kind words, Bill. But obviously what you are saying is not true. I am only a carrier of news most of the times - reports which I see on the net or those that come to me. This is not a very original contribution, I'm afraid. So, ''this site would be lost'' without me is a hyperbole - nice, of course, but unfair to the others, including you yourself. I feel that the credit should go to John, for allowing me to babble on ... On the other hand, we have people here who have had a personal, first-hand feel of the Raj. Some, who had their ancestors here. It would be great hearing from all of them. I urge all of you to share your memories with us - before Time the Old Man moves on. --Harshawardhan ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Click google for "Guava cheese recipe" Alfred Vieyra. -----Original Message----- From: india-british-raj-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:india-british-raj-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of karoo Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 5:22 AM To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Guava Cheese Hello - May I intrude with something as trivial as a request for a recipe. Could somebody please email me a simple method for turning guavas into cheese - please. Needed in a hurry as the fruit once picked, ripens far too quickly and I can't 'put away' any more of them without risking stomach ache ! My experience remembered from childhood days in Lillooah and the guava tope at the back of Bridge's house. A lovely way to spend a lazy afternoon, high in the branches gorging as many guavas as a six year old tummy could comfortably hold ! (Better that the flying foxes didn't get them first.) Wishes Sally ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Harshoo! I repeat I enjoy your erudition and this site would be lost without you. However, with regard to your "Arabian Frontiers", I am constrained to remark that we were pretty good at this Empire thing while it lasted!...........Billllllll.........!

Yes, the 29th Indian Brigade consisting of the 14th Sikhs and two Gurkha battalions fought most gallantly at Gallipoli sustaining very heavy casualties in the process.To the tune of 1300 killed in action and 3,500 wounded. Mandeep ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham@gmail.com> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Cc: <india@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:35 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Today is Anzacs day (India connexion) > Thu 24 Apr 2008 From scotsman.com > > Today is Anzacs day, commemorating the ill-fated landing of Australian > and New Zealand troops at Ari Burnu on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915. > 8,709 Australians and 2,701 New Zealanders lost their lives. Somewhat > overlooked are the other nations' dead. Over 21,000 British and Irish > troops died; nearly 10,000 French troops and over 1,300 from India. > Not to mention the 86,000 Turkish dead. By the end of the campaign, > over 130,000 troops from all sides were dead and Gallipoli remained > in Turkish hands. > > ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > Nagpur, India > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message