Slaughter in Bombay

January 13th, 2020

From Allen’s Indian Mail, December 3rd, 1851

BOMBAY. MUSULMAN FANATICISM.

On the evening of November 15th, the little village of Mahim was the scene of a murder, perhaps the most determined which has ever stained the annals of Bombay. Three men were massacred in cold blood, in a house used […]

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Category: Dispatches from the Empire

Ought King Leopold to be Hanged?

April 2nd, 2018

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For the somewhat startling suggestion in the heading of this interview, the missionary interviewed is in no way responsible. The credit of it, or, if you like, the discredit, belongs entirely to the editor of the Review, who, without dogmatism, wishes to pose the question as […]

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Category: Dispatches from the Empire, Essays

News from the Empire – Jan. 17th, 1851 Vol IX-No.165 – Allen’s Indian Mail

March 30th, 2018

Filed under Miscellaneous.

The Jubbulpore School of Industry is so thriving that the pupils, 800 in number, are obliged to work till ten o’clock at night to complete their orders; this they do most cheerfully. They are all Thugs, or the children of Thugs, and the hands which now ply […]

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Category: Dispatches from the Empire

Life Among the Thugee

March 29th, 2018

Group of Thuggee – From Harpers Magazine – Dec. 12, 1837

The existence of large bodies of men having no other means of subsistence than those afforded by plunder, is, in all countries, too common to excite surprise; and, unhappily, organized bands of assassins are not peculiar to India! The associations of […]

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Category: Dispatches from the Empire, Essays

Fruits of the Empire: Licorice Root and Juice

March 29th, 2018

Liquorice, the roots of Glycirrhiza Glabra, a perennial plant, a native of the south of Europe, but cultivated to some extent in England, particularly at Mitcham, in Surrey.

Its root, which is its only valuable part, is long, fibrous, of a yellow colour, and when fresh, very juicy. […]

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Category: Apothecary, Dispatches from the Empire

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

— Adam Smith