Author: W. P. Andrew
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781330813638
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Excerpt from India and Her Neighbors All eyes in the East, as in the West, have long expected the struggle for supremacy between England and Russia. That struggle, if for a season deferred, still appears to be inevitable. Every act in the great drama of war between Russia and Turkey has most powerfully affected the nations of Central Asia and agitated our northwest frontier in India. While in our peacable and well-ordered possessions the call to arms against the Czar has excited the utmost enthusiasm. The Seikh and the Gourka, the fiercest soldiers in Asia, to whom the din of battle is as the breath of their nostrils, vie in ardor with the Mussulman, who burns to avenge the wrongs of the Head of his faith. Even the Hindustanee, forgetting his caste restraints and prejudices, longs to strike a blow for those whose salt he and his fathers have eaten in contentment and peace. In Northern India, the Punjab and the border lands beyond, we have an inexhaustible field for recruiting men of fine physique, whose trade is war, and accustomed to arms from childhood. "There never was put forward a greater fallacy or an error more likely to be mischievous, than that the Turkish question was of no importance in an Indian point of view." The grand problem now in course of solution in Turkey must affect in its results, whatever they may be, in the most immediate and powerful manner, our prestige and prosperity in India. Even during the Crimean campaign, the varying fortunes of the field elicited either the apprehension or the applause of the nations of the East, from the shepherd in his solitude to the warrior chief in his stronghold, while thousands of Moolahs prayed Allah to bless the arms of the "Sooltan of Room." When the fall of Sebastopol was announced at Dera Ismael Khan, on the Upper Indus, the news was received with the greatest enthusiasm by all classes. The bazaars of the city were brilliantly illuminated, every wealthy shopkeeper displaying from 1,000 to 1,200 lamps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
