Thanks for that reminder, That was a great favourite in our household when I was a child - no doubt my grandfather's influence coming through with the music that was played in our household! I have the sheet music here amongst my music treasures - if anyone wants a copy please email me off list. Cheers Ainslie.

Three versions of a very popular old song - Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar/Kashmiri Love Song Deanna Durbin sings "Pale Hands - Kashmiri Song" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAqT39YBuXI RICHARD CROOKS SINGS KASHMIRI LOVE SONG (1944) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFHPe8t-NvE Richard Tauber - Kashmiri Song (1936) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbzqvQzoWw --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar ,

War Graves Commission honours the fallen of India 06 September 2010 At midday on Sunday 26 September, a new war memorial, built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, will be unveiled in Sussex, paying tribute to some of the one and half million Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire during the First World War. [SNIP] https://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=415329&SubjectId=2 --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

There is a fine equestrian statue of Dulip on a small island in the nearb town of Thetford, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "karoo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Punjab to Perthshire > An interesting article about a colourful man > The images on Elveden Estate (alive and well) are worth Googling for. > Thanks John > Sally > P.S I was ignorant of the alliance between Russians and ..... the Irish ! > I must find more to read. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3118 - Release Date: 09/06/10 19:34:00

An interesting article about a colourful man The images on Elveden Estate (alive and well) are worth Googling for. Thanks John Sally P.S I was ignorant of the alliance between Russians and ..... the Irish ! I must find more to read.

To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject, visit http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2010-09-06 Singh, Duleep (1838-1893), maharaja of Lahore, was born in Lahore on 6 September 1838, the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) and Rani Jindan Kaur (1817-1863). With the death of Ranjit Singh came chaos and mayhem as his prized Khalsa army, the lynchpin of his control of the Punjab, became a law unto itself and gave its support to a chain of successors. Each in turn was murdered until, on 16 September 1843, Duleep Singh was declared maharaja. Duleep Singh's early years as ruler of the Punjab were filled with all that the court could provide. He was tutored in Persian and Gurmukhi-the language of the Sikh holy scriptures. He loved falconry and learned to hunt and shoot-a pastime that he continued to enjoy throughout his life. By 1845 the Khalsa army clamoured for long overdue payment from the child-maharaja. They themselves were in total disarray, with the British provocatively camped on the Punjab's southern border. The scene was set for the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). Following the defeat of the Khalsa army in 1846 Duleep Singh's kingdom was reduced to half its former size, and a British resident installed in Lahore. Within two years a Sikh revolt led to the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9). By the time of the Sikh surrender in March 1849 the British had entered Lahore and removed Duleep Singh from the Punjab to the town of Fatehgarh in the North-West Provinces of India. The conditions of surrender required Duleep Singh to resign his title to the sovereignty of the Punjab, the confiscation of state property, and the surrender of the famous Koh-i-noor diamond to Queen Victoria. In return Duleep Singh was granted a pension provided he 'remain obedient to the British Government'. Fatehgarh, famed for its Christian missionary activity, was where Duleep Singh was converted to Christianity in 1853. This act, although facilitated by his guardians, was none the less more rapidly accomplished than even they had expected. A year later, in May 1854, he arrived in England and quickly gained a royal audience, becoming an immediate success with Queen Victoria. Between 1854 and 1861 the maharaja lived variously in London, in Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, and in Castle Menzies, Perthshire, becoming famous for his love of the country and game-shooting. He joined the Carlton Club and became a freemason. In January 1861 Duleep Singh returned to India to rescue his mother from political exile. For the next two years they were inseparable, but in 1863 she suddenly died. Again the maharaja returned to India, this time to cremate the maharani. He did not return home alone. In Cairo, on 7 June 1864, he married Bamba Muller (1848-1887), a part-Ethiopian, part-German girl from a local mission school. He took her home to his newly acquired home at Elveden, Suffolk. In 1865 they had a son, who died when only one month old. Between 1866 and 1879 they had six further children, who were brought up as royalty in the sprawling estate. Duleep Singh loved Elveden and rebuilt the church, cottages, and the school. His fame as a shooter of game was revived in the grounds of the great estate. Amid European glamour, the spirit that had tasted sovereignty was hibernating somewhere in the mind of Duleep Singh. Prompted initially by his mother, then by his cousin Thakur Singh Sandhanwalia, and finally by the supposed prophecies of the tenth Sikh guru, Duleep Singh began a battle with the British government asserting the illegality of the annexation of the Punjab, and he demanded to be reinstated as maharaja. In 1886 he tried to return to India to place himself as the prophesied head of the Sikh people, but was arrested at Aden. Here he was received back into the Sikh faith. Duleep Singh was to spend his last six years in Paris leading a crusade to return himself to the throne of Lahore. In his proclamations he signed himself 'the lawful sovereign of the Sikh nation' and the 'implacable foe of the British government'. He conspired with Russian and Irish revolutionaries to take the Punjab through the Khyber pass, the scheme relying on the British being weakened by a mass revolt of Punjabi and Irish soldiers. The grand plan was never to materialize. He was dogged by conspiracy, then in 1887 his most powerful Russian ally, Mikhail Katkov, died, and with him went any chance of Russian support. In Paris, on 20 May 1889, Singh was married for a second time, to Ada Douglas Wetherill (1869-1930), a young Englishwoman. They had two daughters, Alexandra Duleep Singh (b. 1887), born before the marriage, and Ada Irene Helen Duleep Singh (1889-1926), born after. With his health deteriorating, he initiated a reconciliation with Queen Victoria, who responded with a full pardon through the secretary of state on 1 August 1890. Within years his health broke down completely, and on 22 October 1893 he suffered a fatal 'apoplectic fit' in the modest Hotel de la Tremoille, Paris. His body was taken back to his beloved stately home, Elveden, to be buried next to his first wife and youngest son in the graveyard of St Andrew's and St Patrick's Church, on 28 October. Of Duleep Singh's eight children who survived infancy, Princess Bamba Sofia Jindan Duleep Singh (1869-1957) settled in Lahore, where she died. Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (1866-1918) held a commission in the 1st (Royal) Dragoons and married a daughter of the earl of Coventry. Frederick Victor Duleep Singh (1868-1926), who like his brother was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, also held an army commission and saw service in France during the First World War. Edward Alexander Duleep Singh (1879-1893) died while still a schoolboy. The princesses Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (1876-1948) and Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (1871-1942) were both educated at Somerville College, Oxford, and Sophia later ruffled feathers at the India Office by defiantly selling The Suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court. All Duleep Singh's children died without issue. Amandeep Singh Madra Sources H. Singh, ed., The encyclopaedia of Sikhism, 2nd edn, 1 (Patiala, 1995) + C. Campbell, The maharajah's box (2000) + M. Alexander and S. Anand, Queen Victoria's maharajah (1980) Archives BL OIOC, personal and family corresp. and papers, MS Eur. E 377 + Royal Arch., letters | BL, letters to W. E. Gladstone and related papers, Add. MSS 44468-44508, passim + Bodl. Oxf., corresp. with Lord Kimberley, MSS Eng. a 2013-2014; b 2047-2049; c 3933-4514; d 2439-2492; e 2790-2797 Likenesses G. Beechy, oils, 1852, priv. coll. · E. Becker, photograph, 1854, Royal Collection · F. X. Winterhalter, oils, 1854, Royal Collection [see illus.] · carte-de-visite, c.1877, Maharajah Duleep Singh Centenary Trust · Spy [L. Ward], lithograph, NPG; repro. in VF (18 Nov 1882) · photograph, Sothebys Wealth at death £7219 13s.: 1894, CGPLA Eng. & Wales

Thanks for the walk down memory lane - I remember Mum cooking those before we went off on a picnic. They were great eaten cold with bread and butter and salad while sitting on a rug on a river bank in New Zealand. I like the idea of them being cooked in tomato sauce - might just get myself some sausage meat at the market on Saturday morning and cook up a dish for the evening meal. Cheers AInslie in cold/wet Adelaide Sth Australia.

A monument to the skills of the local craftsmen and designers! Gordon Construction on the Tipu Sultan Palace located near City Market in Bangalore was started in 1781 and completed a decade later. During the British rule, it was used as the Secretariat building. [snip] http://www.deccanherald.com/content/62240/tipus-summer-retreat.html --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Now, ain't that juss grreit? After curry, it's egg time. Yup, folks, your favourite ''Scotch Egg'' is no longer Scotch. It's from good ol' Inja. ''A hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, dipped in breadcrumbs and deep-fried - it couldn't sound more Scottish if it tried. But according to food historian Alan Davidson, the Scotch egg actually hails from India - brought home by returning soldiers of the British Empire. It is a descendent of the Indian dish ''nargisi kofta'', which consists of eggs covered in minced lamb and cooked in curried tomatoes. It wasn't until the early 19th century that the first written reference to Scotch eggs popped up (with the recommendation that they be eaten hot with gravy) in the Cook And Housewife's Manual, thought to be secretly penned by Ivanhoe author Sir Walter Scott. Perhaps they should have been called Scott's eggs?'' [snip] Enjoy the full delicious story here: ''Why ARE sausages called bangers? And what on earth's Ceasar got to do with salad? The fascinating origins of our favourite dishes'' 6th September 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1309350/Why-ARE-sausages-called-bangers-And-earths-Caesar-got-salad-The-fascinating-origins-favourite-dishes.html?ito=feeds-newsxml --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Ainslie & Co.... On Saturday in the Daily Telegraph magazine there was a review of a new book by Madhur Jaffrey "Curry Easy". Now this arrival has solved my Christmas gift problem for my wife, Elona, as she has always successfully made up meals from the earlier books...... The item that took my notice though was the Sausage Patties, a recipe for which Ms. Jaffrey obtained from an Anglo-Indian friend in Calcutta. So to help you out with a snack lunch, or what have you, here is the list of ingredients...for 8 patties. 450g Minced Pork, a bit fatty. 3 tbsp Shallots or Red Onions, peeled and finely chopped. 100g fresh Corriander, chopped. 1/2 to 3/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper. 1 tsp Garam Marsala (Preferably home made but shop bought will do she says!). 2 tsp Olive or Rapeseed oil. Mix well together and wrap in cling film and refridgerate over night- or for a couple of hours if need sooner. Put the patties into the frying pan with the oil and make sure that they are cooked through...Enjoy. I will be trying this one out later in the week, we are lucky to be able to get good local pork and can mince it to our requirement. The mixture will, of course, also make up into sausages......2 for the price of one..{;}}> Good Cooking Peter > Thanks for the walk down memory lane - > I remember Mum cooking those before we went off on a picnic. They were > great eaten cold with bread and butter and salad while sitting on a rug > on a river bank in New Zealand. > > I like the idea of them being cooked in tomato sauce - might just get > myself some sausage meat at the market on Saturday morning and cook up a > dish for the evening meal. > > Cheers > AInslie in cold/wet Adelaide Sth Australia.

Tipu's summer retreat Construction on the Tipu Sultan Palace located near City Market in Bangalore was started in 1781 and completed a decade later. During the British rule, it was used as the Secretariat building. [snip] http://www.deccanherald.com/content/62240/tipus-summer-retreat.html --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

''There is a charming British cottage in Nainital, not unlike many other British cottages peppered across our hill stations. This cottage, Gurney House, has been with my family for over 60 years. I was born in it and spent much of my childhood there. Gurney House is special and has a rich history, and it is special not just for me and my family, but also for many others, as it is the home of the legendary hunter-conservationist and writer, Jim Corbett.'' Snipped from Nilanjana Dalmia's article ''At home with Corbett'' September 5th, 2010 http://www.deccanchronicle.com/supplementary/sunday-chronicle/home-corbett-750 --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

03/09/2010 http://www.thehindu.com/2010/09/03/stories/2010090365852200.htm CHENNAMANGALAM (KERALA): A unique conservation project is under way at Chennamangalam, 40 km north of Kochi (Cochin). The 17th century Paliyam Palace, a landmark built by the Dutch East India Company, and the Nalukettu, the traditional mansion adjacent to it, are private property that were in need of attention. The Kerala government has taken up their restoration with an understanding that the Paliyam Eswara Seva Trust, which owns the buildings, will keep it open to the public after restoration and made into museums. [snip] --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - (1837-1924), travel writer, was born on 26 May 1837 at Altyre, Moray, twelfth child and youngest daughter of Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming of Altyre and Gordonstown, second baronet (1787-1854), and his first wife, Eliza Maria. She was educated at home and at school in Fulham, Middlesex. In 1867 she was invited to spend a year with a married sister in India and this proved the start of twelve years of travel and a longer period of travel writing. She was well off and well connected, and 'her globe trotting took on the air of a series of rather far-flung social calls'. After a year in India with her sister and brother-in-law she spent Two Happy Years in Ceylon, where she knew the bishop of Colombo. She then found herself At Home in Fiji, the guest of its first governor. [snip] To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject, visit http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2010-09-04 --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7975958/Sir-Peter-Gwynn-Jones.html ooroo

Dear Harshawardhan Interesting reading for one who knows little about the Red Fort's history. Thank you. When I attended the Sound and Light show at the Fort in the late 1990s, a story was told (in a deep, resonant voice ..... in English) and sound and light indicated various areas of the fort which we could see from our vantage point. Trouble is - I missed the first part on which the action was based and couldn't catch up 1 I wonder if anybody on our List has enjoyed the experience and can relate events that were being told that evening. Many thanks Sally Long before the British forces came there, the Sikhs had attacked the Red Fort in Delhi on March 11,1783, and hoisted the ''Nishan Sahib''. The Emperor offered a treaty, and accepted their terms, says this story, dated Sunday, August 29, 2010. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100829/spectrum/main4.htm --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Thanks to John and Harsh for bringing to our attention such an interesting scholar. Its anecdotes like theirs that help paint a better picture of life during my grandfather's period in India. Cheers Ainslie.

To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject, visit http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2010-08-30 Ridding, (Caroline) Mary (1862-1941), Sanskrit and Pali scholar, was born on 30 August 1862 in Meriden, Warwickshire, the daughter of William Ridding (1830-1900), vicar of Meriden, who had been a notable cricketer, and his wife, Caroline Selina Caldecott. Her uncle was George Ridding, headmaster of Winchester College and later first bishop of Southwell, whose second wife, Lady Laura Ridding (the daughter of the first earl of Selborne), was close to the young woman. A Girton contemporary recalled that although Mary Ridding's mother came from an old Warwickshire family, her father was of modest means, so that she and her brother had to make their own way in the world. Mary Ridding attended Bishopsgate Training College and in 1883 won a higher local scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge. She was placed in the second division of the second class in part one of the classical tripos, specializing in philology and Sanskrit, in 1886; she took her MA in 1923 after Cambridge University allowed women to receive titular degrees. At Girton, Ridding attended the lectures of Robert Alexander Neil, the university lecturer in Sanskrit, and met Edward Byles Cowell, the professor of Sanskrit, who at that time did not admit women to his university lectures. Soon afterwards, Cowell's wife wrote to her, 'we have not the heart to keep you from anything', which began a nineteen-year friendship lasting until Professor Cowell's death (Cambridge Review). Ridding later wrote 'Professor Cowell and his pupils' in Indian Studies Presented to Professor Rapson, volume 6 of the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies (1931). After 1886 Ridding continued her studies, supporting herself by tutoring. In 1889 she was employed as a visiting classics mistress in London, living partly in Cambridge and partly in London before moving permanently to Cambridge. An extremely erudite scholar, Ridding knew Sanskrit, Pali, and some Bengali and Hindi. One of her first scholarly endeavours was to translate the Sanskrit romance Kadambari (Oriental Translation Fund publications, new ser., 11, 1896). She was particularly interested in Tibet, reviewing Tibetan books for the Journal of Asiatic Studies for many years. An Indian research student wrote of her, 'I had known of Miss Ridding's great reputation as an Orientalist in India, where her translation of the Sanskrit story Bana's Kadambari was justly famous ... She loved India, and her appreciation of its philosophy touched me deeply' (Girton Review). Perhaps Mary Ridding's greatest contribution to scholarship was her work as a cataloguer. After Cowell's death in 1903 she arranged the disposition of his books, and catalogued those that went to the Cambridge University Library. In this capacity, she was the first woman to be officially employed by the library. Of great use to scholars is her catalogue of the Sanskrit portion of the library's 'Hand-list of Oriental manuscripts'; she later began a complete catalogue, which was finished by Professor L. de la Vallee Poussin of Belgium. Equally important is her catalogue of the library's Tibetan block-printed books, hundreds of volumes comprising the Tibetan Buddhist canon, the Kanjur, along with other works. Mary Ridding had many interests beyond her south Asian studies. She enjoyed travelling abroad to conferences, and in 1893 took a trip to Greece, suggested and partly arranged by her friend Emily Davies, the founder of Girton, in recognition of her achievements in a new field for women. Ridding loved classical music, particularly Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin's works, which she played on the piano. She was a deeply committed Anglican, maintaining a close relationship with Edmund Gough de Salis Wood, vicar of St Clement's, Cambridge, her spiritual adviser. Contemporaries remembered her as a devoted friend and a true intellectual, but also as a born eccentric. In her last years she lived among clutter in a house above Market Hill in Cambridge, where she eschewed such modern conveniences as radios, telephones, and vacuum cleaners. She died in a nursing home in Cambridge on 9 November 1941. She left Girton College her south Asian books, as well as her valuable collection of fir! st editions of her favourite writer, Charlotte Yonge. In her memory the college founded an annual prize for reading aloud. Fernanda Helen Perrone Sources Cambridge Review (28 Feb 1942) + Girton Review, Michaelmas term (1942) + A. Adam, 'Notes on C. M. Ridding', 1942, Girton Cam. + K. T. Butler and H. I. McMorran, eds., Girton College register, 1869-1946 (1948) + B. Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College (1927) + Boase, Mod. Eng. biog. [William Ridding] Archives Girton Cam. Likenesses photograph, Girton College, Cambridge [see illus.]

Snipped from ODNB Life of the Day for today http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2010-08-30 Ridding, (Caroline) Mary (1862-1941), Sanskrit and Pali scholar, was born on 30 August 1862 in Meriden, Warwickshire, the daughter of William Ridding (1830-1900), vicar of Meriden, who had been a notable cricketer, and his wife, Caroline Selina Caldecott. An extremely erudite scholar, Ridding knew Sanskrit, Pali, and some Bengali and Hindi. One of her first scholarly endeavours was to translate the Sanskrit romance Kadambari (Oriental Translation Fund publications, new ser., 11, 1896). She was particularly interested in Tibet, reviewing Tibetan books for the Journal of Asiatic Studies for many years. An Indian research student wrote of her, 'I had known of Miss Ridding's great reputation as an Orientalist in India, where her translation of the Sanskrit story Bana's Kadambari was justly famous ... She loved India, and her appreciation of its philosophy touched me deeply' (Girton Review). --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Dear Listers, <<... where her translation of the Sanskrit story Bana's Kadambari was justly famous ...>> In Marathi, the word for 'novel' is 'kadambari', derived from Banabhatta's celebrated work 'Kadambari,' which is a novel in the Sanskrit language. It was written in the 7th century. It is an extremely prolix work, typical of the style in which literature was a vehicle for displaying the writer's mastery over the language. Compound words in it run for 2 or 3 lines and sentences run into pages! It is a reading challenge even for those well-equipped with Sanskrit. Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, August 30, 2010.