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The Lawrences of the Punjab

1908

The Lawrences of the Punjab who also turned his steps towards the East 'where he met with adventures of a kind more readily connected with the tales of Schehera-zade than with the actual experience of a middle-class Englishman in the nineteenth century ; and Jan Larens knows everything was the verdict of the natives. [...] The separation was peculiarly hard for Letitia in whose heart Henry held the foremost place ; and imaginative as the young soldier was the glamour of the East and the prospect of ac venture failed to deaden for him the pain of parting. [...] Red i ti"20 The Lawrences of the Punjab tape he said was ruining the army; the seniority system was. filling the higher positions with incompetents and blocking the advance of the capable and zealous. [...] Fifty years after his removal from Paniput the men of the district would talk of his prowess and courage and amazing strength; and tales are still told to the children's children of Jan Larens the demi-god the hero in the Homeric sense the incomprehensible sahib who could get 'the better of the wiles of their forefathers by simple adherence to the truth. [...] light; the trail of the footsteps in the sandy soil with the discovery that one of ili.' assassins must have made a circuit to cut off the tlyMg victim and head him towards the rest of the gang: the deduction therefrom that as Ram Singh.
history
Pages
375
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144133
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-xx Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter I. Boyhood
1-10 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter II. Henry at Dum-Dum
11-18 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter III. John Enters the Clvil Service
19-24 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter IV. John at Delhi
25-37 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter V. The Revenue Survey
38-45 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter VI. Henry Lawrence’s Love Story
46-58 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter VII. John Lawrence Finds a Wife
59-62 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter VIII. The Cis-Sutlej States
63-67 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter IX. The First Afghan War
68-78 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter X. Stepping Stones
79-88 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XI. Nepal and the Gurkhas
89-104 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XII. The Sikhs
105-117 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XIII. The Lawrences and their Punjabis
118-135 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XIV. The Second Sikh War
136-146 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XV. A New Era in India
147-158 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XVI. The Panjab Board
159-172 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XVII. The Derry Schoolfellows
173-178 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XVIII. Incompatible Ideals
179-204 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XIX. John Lawrence Rules the Punjab
205-220 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XX. Henry Lawrence and the Rajputs
221-233 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XXI. Lucknow and Oudh
234-i Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XXII. The Mutiny
251-281 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XXIII. Siege of Lucknow and Death of Henry Lawrence
282-298 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XXIV. John Lawrence Saves India
299-317 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XXV. Viceroy of India
318-329 Frederick Gibbon view
Chapter XXVI. The Last Years of John Lawrence
330-342 Frederick Gibbon view
Index
343-350 Frederick Gibbon view

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