I. [No. 8, September 1881.] EASTERN CAPTIVITY. Journal of the disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-42. By Lady Sale. ... 2. Journal of Imprisonment in Affghanistan (continued and concluded) by Lieut. Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery. London, 1843. ... 3. Journals kept by Mr. Gully and Captain Denham, during a captivity in China in the year 1842. Edited by a Barrister. London, 1844. 4 The Bokhara Victims; by Captain Grover, F.R.S. London, 1845. ... ... THE FIRST SERIES OF GOVERNMENT MEAUSRES FOR THE ABOLITION OF HUMAN SACRIFICES AMONG THE KHONDS. 1. Lieutenant Macpherson's Report upon the Khonds of the Districts of Gangam and Cuttack. Calcutta, 1841, 2. Various Official Documents (hitherto unpublished.) 2. [No. 9, October 1881.] ... ... ... ... ... 139 ib. ib. ib. 194 THE SIKH INVASION OF BRITISH INDIA IN 1845-1846. 1. Papers respecting the late Hostilities on the North-Western Frontier of India. Presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 26th February 1846. Further Papers respecting the late Hostilities on the North-Western Frontier of India, and the conclusion of treaties with the Maharajah Dhulip Singh of Lahore, and the Maharajah Golab Singh of Jummú, &c., &c., 1846. 3. Victories on the Sutlej. The Speeches of the Right Honorable Sir Robert Peel, Bart, on moving the thanks of the House to the Army of the Sutlej for the victories of Múdkí, Ferozshah, Aliwal, and Sobraon, in the House of Commons, Monday, March 2nd, and Thursday, April 2nd, 1846. 4. The War on the Sutlej. May number of the North British Review, 1856. Article in the "Friend of India." The late Major Broadfoot, &c. 6. Article in Colburn's Magazine for May 1846. Our tribute to the Army of the Sutlej."-. I. Correspondence relative to Sindh, 1838-1843. Presented to both 375 3. The Conquest of Sindh, by Major General W. F. P. Napier Parts I. and II., 1845 ... 4. The Conquest of Sindh, a Commentary. Parts I. and II., by LieutenantColonel J. Outram, C. B., 1846. ... iii DOST MAHOMMED KHAN. Life of the Amir, Dost Mahommed Khan of Kabul; with his political proceedings towards the English, Russian and Persian Governments, including the victories and disasters of the British Army in Affghanis tan, by Mohan Lal, Esq., Knight of the Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun; lately attached to thei Mssion in Kabul. 2 vols. Longman and Co, 1846 ... [No. 11, December 1881.] ... THE FIRST PROTESTANT MISSIONARY TO BENGAL. 421 1. Carne's Lives of Eminent Missionaries, vol. I. p. 299-318: John Kiernander.... 2. Asiatic Journal: Biography: Kiernander the Missionary SIR ELIJAH IMPEY. Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, Knt., first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, Bengal; with anecdotes of Warren Hastings, Sir Philip Francis, Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, Esq., and other contemporaries; compiled from authentic documents, in refutation of the calumnies of the Right Hon'ble Thomas Babington Macaulay, by Elijah Barwell Impey. London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1846 ... [No. 12, Fanuary 1881.] HINDU MEDICINE. 483 ib. 1. Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine, by T. A. Wise, M. D. 8vo. Calcutta, 1845. 2. An Essay on the Antiquity of Hindu Medicine, by J. Forbes Royle, M. D., F. R. and L. S., &c., &c., &c., 8vo. London, 1837. 3. Tracts, Historical and Statistical on India, by Benjamin Heyne. M. D., F. L. S., &c., &c., &c., 4to. London, 1814. .. A view of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindus, includ- ... ... ... 5. Materia Indica; or some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindus, and other Eastern nations, in their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture, &c., by Whitelaw Ainslie, M. D., M. R. A. S. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1826. 6. Asiatic Researches ; or Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for enquiring into the History, the Antiquities, the Arts and Sciences and Literature of Asia. 18 vols. 4to. Calcutta. The articles relating to Hindu Medicine. tb. ib. 7. Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. 8. vols. 8vo. Calcutta. Ditto 8. The History of India, by the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, 2 vols, 8vo. London, 1841. Vol. I, Chapter IV. On Hindu Medicine. 9. The History of British India, by James Mill, Esq., edited with notes and continuation by H. H. Wilson, Esq., M. A., F. R. S. 8vo. London. Book II, Cap. 10, vol. 2d. 222 ib. ib. ib. 10. II. I. 2. HINDU MEDICINE.-(Continued.) Essai d'une Histoire Pragmatique dela Medicine, par Kurt Sprengel, LORD WELLESLEY'S ADMINISTRATION. Memoirs and Correspondence_of_the_most__noble Richard Marquess 619 ib. 674 ib. 3. 4. Mill's History of British India, vol. VI. The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, ib. ... ... FROM THE CALCUTTA REVIEW. THE MAHRATTA HISTORY AND EMPIRE. 1. Illustrations of some Institutions of the Mahratta People, by 3. Jenkins's Report on the territories of the Rajah of Nagpore. Calcutta, 1827. 4. History of the Mahrattas, by James Grant Duff, Esq., Captain, Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, and late Resident at Satara. Longman, London, 1826. 5. The Bengal and Agra Gazetteer for 1841 and 1842. SCAR CARCELY more than a twelvemonth has passed since our pages contained a brief outline of the leading events of the last few years in the Punjab, and furnished a catalogue of atrocities which to many readers, especially to those in Europe, may have appeared unduly coloured and exaggerated. It is difficult to understand how any country can escape absolute depopulation when scourged by such calamities, and we shrink with horror from the details of individual suffering involved in these wholesale butcheries. There is, however, a pertinacious vitality in mankind, that rallies from the most tremendous slaughter of men. The Sikhs are not the only people "Whose morning dawn was with blood o'erspread, Their evening-fall was a bloody red; Their groans were heard on the mountain swarth; There was blood in the heavens and blood on the earth." Such is the train of thought suggested by perusing the works, the titles of which stand at the head of this article. Before using them as authorities it will be only courteous briefly to introduce the authors and our readers to each other. We have disinterred from the back shelves of our library, the worm-eaten pages of Jenkins's and Elphinstone's valuable reports. Such state documents are too little read. They afford better lessons of Indian statesmanship than half the more pretending publications of the day. Grant Duff's volumes should be in the hands of all who desire acquaintance with the Mahrattas. He lived among them for years, understood their peculiar character, and, without any pretension to commanding talent, seems to us to have combined the chief qualifications A necessary to a good Political Agent. He was industrious, impartial, and benevolent. He was not, moreover, a mere book-worm. He studied men and manners in the camp, the cabinet, and in the peasant's field, as well as in the dusty records of his office. He examined the past that he might understand the present and such we consider to be the duty of every Indian official who would not be led by the nose by his assistants, European or native. Research of this kind has, however, its besetting dangers it tempts men to become mere devourers of indistinct manuscripts, and it is apt to lure them into the wide waste of speculation, where, mounted on the hobby of some favourite theory, they challenge and combat the strongest evidence that will not take the road they themselves have chosen. Grant Duff escaped these temptations: he was eminently practical. His book is written with the candour and gentlemanliness of the accomplished soldier, combined with the kindliness to be expected from a disciple of Mount Stewart Elphinstone. If the minute details of some portions of the Mahratta history in some measure fatigue the reader, he is rewarded by the fullest information on the character of a very peculiar people, too generally believed to be as the Sikhs, a modern sect, or, like the Pindarees, to have been mere bands of marauders, instead of being one of the oldest races of the Indian peninsula. The record of that portion of Mahratta history that came under Grant Duff's personal observations, appears to us to possess the rare merit of thorough impartiality. Each topic and individual is treated manfully but courteously. Truth was his grand object. He sank no point by which it might be ascertained or illustrated; but, while doing so, he uniformly treated his opponents with unassuming candour. Elphinstone's statements both in his history and official report, agree with those of Grant Duff. Rushton's Gazetteer is a treasury of information to those who can separate the wheat from the chaff; but the winnowing is rather a formidable task. We should gladly welcome another series, more leisurely compiled than those for 1841 and 1842. Our Government offices teem with records which, under moderately judicious editorship, would incalculably enrich such a work. Besides the above authors we have gleaned information relative to the Mahrattas from other writers, who advert to them directly or indirectly. Mill's notice of them is singularly meagre and unsatisfactory, and not always accurate. Gleig evidently means to follow Duff, but occasionally embellishes his authority in a way that might have passed in "the Subaltern," but is unbecoming in an historian. Wilkes and Orme throw much light on those portions of Mahratta history which they treat of; and the same may be said of " Scott's Dakhan. ' |