22 April 2008 The Scotsman http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Home-of-Kipling-novel-on.4004762.jp Home of Kipling novel on sale THE Highland property where Rudyard Kipling wrote one of his most famous novels is up for sale for almost £500,000. Kipling was inspired to write his masterpiece Kim at the Old Manse at Creich, near Ardgay. The epic, which tells the story of an Irish soldier's orphan living on his wits in India, is widely acknowledged as Kipling's greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. The house dates back to the 1700s, when it was built on a site of an early settlement used by the monks of St Duthus, the patron saint of Tain. [snip] ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7325117.stm Monday, 21 April 2008 Why Britons walked warily in Waziristan BBC News In 1919, a young British army officer, Francis Stockdale, was deployed to the Waziristan area of British India. The title of his book, "Walk Warily in Waziristan" seems no less appropriate now than it did 90 years ago, because today the autonomous Pakistani tribal region of North and South Waziristan is the centre of militancy orchestrated by pro-Taleban and al-Qaeda militants. It is also an area where many believe the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, may be hiding after the September 2001 World Trade Centre attacks. It wasn't until the 1980s that Capt Stockdale's family published a handful of copies of the book, only a few of which survive. But because or renewed interest in the region, the family in the English county of Norfolk are considering reprinting it. 'Wait, watch and pounce' The book provides a fascinating account of what was regarded then - as it is today - as a thoroughly dangerous area. One of the main towns close to Waziristan is Tank. Capt Stockdale describes it as being "the worst station in British India". "It was known as 'Hell's door knocker' because in the summer the temperature would rise so high that a village nearby rejoiced in the highest temperature in the world - a modest 131 degrees in the shade. "But it was also an area where hostile tribesman waited, watched and pounced," he wrote. "My memories of Tank are characterised by sporadic outbreaks of rifle fire by night and spasmodic outbreaks of cholera during the day. The town fully deserved its poor reputation." Capt Stockdale goes on to describe just how dangerous the "hostile tribesmen" were in the Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, when a sniper infiltrated a British camp. "Like all tribesmen in this area, he was a marvellous shot," Capt Stockdale wrote, "and he killed the commanding officer with his first shot. "He killed or wounded 11 other men before his hiding place was discovered." Ninety years ago, it seemed that British troops in Waziristan faced the same kind of dangers as Pakistani troops in the region do today. "One one occasion, tribesmen rolled down boulders in front of a military convoy - effectively cutting them off. I could hear the firing in the distance and there were lots of casualties." Getting captured, it seemed, was not an option: "It would result in death by torture, an activity which I was informed the tribal women folk used to luxuriate." The shortage of female company in these remote outposts of the British empire played heavily on officers and men alike. Capt Stockdale describes the lucky escape of one soldier who took to writing passionate letters to his wife and his mistress from a British encampment in the region that was surrounded by tribesmen. "Waiting for a target, they got bored and fired a bullet at random into the camp. It removed the digit finger of the man's right hand as he was writing to the loves of his life. "That incident kept me on the straight and narrow path for many months to come - not that there were many opportunities in Waziristan to be tempted or led astray!" A book packed with colourful reminiscences, Capt Stockdale describes many of his brother officers. These included Whipples, who wore a monocle every time the bullets started flying and specialised in using camels to provide supplies of whisky and gin in remote areas. "The tribesmen got Whipples in the end and I guarantee the monocle was in when the last bullet hit him," he wrote. He also describes attempts by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to drop bombs on tribesmen encamped close to the border with Afghanistan. "Their bombs did not always explode upon hitting the earth and the tribesmen soon adapted themselves to shooting at flying targets. The pilots carried ransom papers, so if they were captured and returned to safety, the reward would be large." Some of the unexploded bombs dropped by the RFC were "collected by the tribesmen who used them to decorate their mud huts or houses". Local fighters in the 1920s were as tough then as they are now. "We often used to ask ourselves, how could they survive so long living in a rocky area, with a film of earth capable of growing only scrub trees?" Capt Stockdale ended up serving two years in Waziristan and considered himself lucky to be returning home. "Many of my friends were killed, but I lived 60 years since then," he wrote. Capt Stockdale - who was later promoted to be a major - died in 1989 aged 93. ====================== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

> Below is an extract from the Wikipedia entry. > I found several entries at the British Library for Haileybury College. > Try www.bl.uk/collections/orientalandindian.html and search for > Haileybury. > > "East India Company Records > Unlike all other British Government records, the records from the > East India Company (and its successor India Office) are not in The > National Archives at Kew, London, but are stored by the British > Library in London as part of the Asia, Pacific and Africa > Collection. The catalogue is searchable online in the Access to > Archives catalogues.[12] Many of The East India Company Records are > freely available online under an agreement that FIBIS have with the > British Library." ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

Also try http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/H_0018.htm and follow leads from there. ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

G'day folks, Can I suggest that as you now should be able to access these films for yourselves that you do so. I will not be forwarding any more msgs to The Raj from the moorrakers List. ooroo Begin forwarded message: From: "KATHLEEN LOPEZ" <kathleen.lopez@rogers.com> Date: 21 April 2008 12:02:47 PM To: <moonrakers@lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com> Subject: [Moonrakers] Cadet Papers Reply-To: moonrakers@lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com Someone asked about the years covered in the film I am viewing. Years are: Cancelled cadets 1833-1859 List of Cadets 1775-1802 Embarkation Lists 1779-1802 If you go to familysearch and look in the Library section you will find dozens of films listed. You have to keep changing what you put into the search in order to see all the films available----eg. cadet papers Cadet registers Hon. East India Compny East India Company etc. Kathleen in Toronto ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

Dear List, Just a quick note ...I came across this site recently ...haven't seen it mentioned here. I have no financial connection with it! However, many an hour can be spent enjoying the old prints. I searched for India' and there are over 1000 prints to view. They can be enlarged and if The urge comes to spend a dollar or two, then ...! http://www.old-print.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=0 Good wishes, Hilda Payne Masterton, NZ

Here is one of those pictures that speak volumes ... Photograph of a library being divided at the time of the Partition. http://bp3.blogger.com/_znh6RVCdYB4/RZPM1EFmySI/AAAAAAAAAOo/yB6H8-urunQ/s400/10.jpg Text at: http://www.kudlabluez.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Centenary Of Overland Mail BNR's through connection to Calcutta became operative with the opening of Roopnarain Bridge at Kolaghat in April 1900. Soon thereafter, a through communication between Calcutta and Bombay was established via the BNR route and passenger services were introduced. This was followed by introduction of a fast mail train, popularly known as 2 Up/1Dn or Dn/Up overland mail. This train is poised to complete 100 years of its operation. A study of the timetable for the last 100 years makes an interesting reading. The train timings from 1907 to 2001 are tabulated below: [snip] John W. Mitchell, author of the book "The Wheels of IND" describes his first journey from Bombay to Calcutta to join his position as Asstt. Traffic Superintendent, BNR in a very lucid manner. Extracts from his book: "The Down Overland Mail to Calcutta via Nagpur left the Victoria Terminus at 15.30 (3.30 p.m.). My friend and I were aboard. The broad roominess of the carriages was at once apparent, showing that full advantage had been taken of the broad gauge of 5 ft. 6 in. A comfortable leather-upholstered seat ran lengthways at each side of the compartment. [snip] http://www.serailway.gov.in/General/Book_RRB/centenary_of_overland_mail.htm ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Thursday, Apr 18, 2002 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/04/18/stories/2002041800430100.htm ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Monday, Jul 03, 2006 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/07/03/stories/2006070300250500.htm Always the second station by S. MUTHIAH The handsome Egmore Railway Station built at a cost of Rs.17 lakh and inaugurated in 1908, has weathered the years well. Obviously, the contractor, T. Samynada Pillai, built it to last. But despite being tended well in recent years, the station could do with considerable improvement and that is what has just begun. But while improving facilities and modernising the station, it is to be hoped that Samynada Pillai's work will be left untouched - down to ensuring that the SIR emblazoned on the bas relief crest remains, even if the `I' has been painted out in recent years. That crest is the true reminder of Egmore Railway Station's history. It may have been built as the second most important station of the railway company it belonged to and it may still remain Madras' second station, but it is nevertheless one of the city's major landmarks and a handsomer building than the two it was meant to play second fiddle to, the `Trichinopoly' Railway Station and Madras' Central. All of them today belong to the Southern Railway, the first nationalised unit of the Indian Railways which was created on April 1,1951, with the merger of the Madras & South Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway and the Mysore Railway. The South Indian Railway's headquarters was `Trichinopoly' and Egmore was its Madras terminus. The origins of the SIR were in the Great Southern India Railway Co. founded in Britain in 1853 and registered in 1859. Construction of track in the southern reaches of the Presidency began in 1859 with work on an 80-mile link from Trichinopoly to the port of `Negapatam'. The track was opened to traffic in 1861. The Great Southern India Railway Company was subsequently merged with the Carnatic Railway Company and the SIR was formed in 1874. The Carnatic Railway, founded in 1864, opened a Madras-Arkonam-`Conjeevaram' line in 1865. The SIR pushed its first tracks south of Trichy in 1876, but it was registered as a company in London only in 1890. The building of the SIR's headquarters and main railway station in Trichinopoly were entrusted to Samynada Pillai, a leading Bangalore building contractor from 1879. He next built the Madurai station for SIR and followed it with Egmore. With this record, it was almost inevitable that he would be asked to build the M&SM's headquarters building to be sited next to Central Station. That work was completed in 1922 at a cost Rs.20 lakh. Egmore Railway Station, built on the site of the Egmore Redoubt (Fort) which the SIR had acquired in 1900, was expanded in the 1930s, and then again in the 1980s, with sympathetic construction. Now, further expansion has started, I am glad to say harmoniously. ========== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHnjq4-Ixck&feature=related ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Good day, I recently saw a video of the Kyber Pass railway but am looking for some early photos and history of this railway, and in particular, of the pictures of the stations in the Pass. I did once see one good photo at the O.I.O.C. showing a small station with an engine in front of it, but did not have time to copy it or not it's details, being otherwise engaged in researching my uncle's miltary career in the N.W.F.. Can anyone suggest a suitable website or alternative source? Thank you, Chris Woods

Surveying Sir George Everest -- an article by Brinda Gill. >From - Professional Surveyor February 2001 Volume 21 Number 2 http://www.profsurv.com/archive.php?article=703&issue=50 ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

April 20, 2008 Causes of the British Younghusband Expedition To Tibet (1903-1904) Posted by Jigme Duntak http://tibettalk.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/causes-of-the-british-younghusband-expedition-1903-1904/ ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Begin forwarded message: From: "KATHLEEN LOPEZ" <kathleen.lopez@rogers.com> Date: 20 April 2008 12:52:06 PM To: <moonrakers@lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com> Cc: Shirley Abraham <abraham.shirley@gmail.com> Subject: [Moonrakers] Cadets/East India Co. Reply-To: moonrakers@lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com Here are the questions that each candidate had to answer. 1.At what school or schools have you been educated? 2.What is the profession,situation or residence of your Father, if dead what was the profession and what is the residence or your nearest kin? 3.Who recommended you to Mr.----------, the Nominating member of the Council for this appointment? 4.Do you believe any person has received or is to receive any pecuniary consideration or anything convertible in any mode into a pecuniary benefit on account of your nomination? 5.Are you aware that if it should be hereafter discovered that your appointment has been obtained by improper means you will be ineligible to hold any situation in Her Majesty's service? 6.Have you been informed that all appointments now made are to be subject to any alterations that may be decided upon? 7.Are you aware that if you omit to ensure the amount of your passage and outfit, you do so at your own risk;and in the event of any damage, Shipwreck or other contingency the Secretatry of State for India in Council will not attend to any application for indemnification? 8.Have you held a Commission in H.M Army or in the Militia or Fencible Corps when embodied, for one year at least and been called into actual service? 9.Are you aware that it is a condition of your appointment that you are required to subscribe to the Military Fund of the Presidency to which you are nominated? Kathleen in Toronto ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

Begin forwarded message: From: "KATHLEEN LOPEZ" <kathleen.lopez@rogers.com> Date: 20 April 2008 8:37:30 AM To: <moonrakers@lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com> Cc: Shirley Abraham <abraham.shirley@gmail.com> Subject: [Moonrakers] CADETS/E.I.CO. Reply-To: moonrakers@lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com I have started to view the Cadet Register for the East India Co. FILM # 1835744----from Salt Lake City. The first half of the film is given to those cadets who failed to pass the examinations given by the company---nearly always because they failed certain academic subjects. They were examined by the following professors: Professor of Mathematics and Classics " of fortifications " of Hindustani " of French They also had to provide a medical certification, letters of recommendation, a school history, a brief family history and respond to a number of questions posed by the examining board. Many also submitted their certifications of baptisms and letters from their vicars/ministers attesting to the fact that they were regular C.of E. members. The idiot who filmed the register kept putting one letter partially on top of another so I was often unable to read a letter that accompanied an application.-----or was this a film of a film of the register??-- who knows.? The handwriting often is difficult to read. more to follow, Kathleen in Toronto . ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

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The Duar War was a war fought between British India and Bhutan from 1864 and 1865 : http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Duar_War ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India