The Lawrences of the Punjab
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The Lawrences of the Punjab

1908

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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.

Pages
375
SARF Document ID
sarf.144133
Published in
United Kingdom
Title Pages Author/Editor
Introduction i-xx Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter I. Boyhood 1-10 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter II. Henry at Dum-Dum 11-18 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter III. John Enters the Clvil Service 19-24 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter IV. John at Delhi 25-37 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter V. The Revenue Survey 38-45 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter VI. Henry Lawrence’s Love Story 46-58 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter VII. John Lawrence Finds a Wife 59-62 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter VIII. The Cis-Sutlej States 63-67 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter IX. The First Afghan War 68-78 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter X. Stepping Stones 79-88 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XI. Nepal and the Gurkhas 89-104 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XII. The Sikhs 105-117 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XIII. The Lawrences and their Punjabis 118-135 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XIV. The Second Sikh War 136-146 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XV. A New Era in India 147-158 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XVI. The Panjab Board 159-172 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XVII. The Derry Schoolfellows 173-178 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XVIII. Incompatible Ideals 179-204 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XIX. John Lawrence Rules the Punjab 205-220 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XX. Henry Lawrence and the Rajputs 221-233 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XXI. Lucknow and Oudh 234-i Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XXII. The Mutiny 251-281 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XXIII. Siege of Lucknow and Death of Henry Lawrence 282-298 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XXIV. John Lawrence Saves India 299-317 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XXV. Viceroy of India 318-329 Frederick Gibbon

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Chapter XXVI. The Last Years of John Lawrence 330-342 Frederick Gibbon

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Index 343-350 Frederick Gibbon

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