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WRITTEN FROM THE YEAR 1846 TO 1878.

BY ROBERT NEEDHAM CUST,

Late Member of her Majesty's Indian Civil Service; Hon. Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society;
and Author of "The Modern Languages of the East Indies."

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"To me they represent thirty-five years of inquiry, reflection, and speculation. Many pages recall scenes in India, and friends, Natives and English, loved and valued, whom I shall see no more. The first Essay was written when I was acting as private secretary to Sir Henry Lawrence in the camp of Lords Hardinge and Gough, at the gates of Lahore, the capture of which is an old story now. 'Indian District during a Rebellion' was written in the camp of Lord Canning, at Allahabad, while Sir Colin Campbell was still beleaguering Lakhnau. The Civil Judge decided his cases in one part of North India; the Collector got in his Land Revenue in another, at a distance of many hundred leagues from each other; but for any success in either vocation I was indebted to the rare good fortune of having sat at the feet of Lord Lawrence, and learnt my lesson from the greatest of administrators. Some were written in the tent under the shade of the mango-grove, or in the solitary staging-bungalow. Notes for others were jotted down on a log in a native village, or in a boat floating down one of the five rivers on the track of Alexander the Great, or in an excursion in the mountains of the Himalaya. The materials for others were collected in Palestine, Italy, France, Germany, and Russia, and pillaged from men and books in many languages, European and Asiatic. Such as they are, they reflect the turn of thought, the employment, the studies, and, no doubt, the weaknesses of the writer, viz., an ardent love for the people of India, a fearless spirit of inquiry into the history of the past, and a tendency to cast off all conventional shackles in the search for truth, and to look upon men of all ages and countries as stamped in the same mould, deformed by the same weaknesses, and elevated by the same innate nobility.

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Some of the last words of my master, Lord Lawrence, in India were, 'Be kind to the natives. I would go even further, and say, Take an interest in and try to love them.' They are the heirs (perhaps the spendthrift heirs) of an ancient, but still surviving civilisation. And how far superior are they to the modern Egyptian, or dweller of Mesopotamia, the bankrupt heirs of a still more ancient but exhausted civilisation! How superior are they to the Equatorial and Tropical African, who never had any civilisation at all! It seems a special privilege to have lived a quarter of a century amidst such a people as the inhabitants of Northern India, who are bone of our Arian bone, if not flesh of our Occidental culture: a people with History, Arts, Sciences, Literature, and Religion not to be surpassed, if equalled, by the Chinese and Japanese, who, like the Indians, for so many centuries sat apart from, and uninfluenced by, the long splendour of the Greek and Roman civilisation, which had overshadowed the rest of the world."-EXTRACT FROM PREFACE.

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