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... means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) I... ... 1stBooks - rev. 11/22/02 iii Note to Reader Extracts from investigations, 1835 Major General Sir Willia... ...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...head was drawn back by ’The Arm Holder’. The rumel tightened and as the last breath was squeezed from his body, he looked into the face of ‘The Str... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...f which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of every shade of colour, from pale brown to... ...n remembered that Isabel had left after the wedding on a few days’ leave to visit her brother in Lucknow. Gavin had told Helen, shortly after she a... ...ilva returned from her holiday looking thinner and more troubled. Her brother had lost his job in Lucknow and was now seeking work in Mirapore. Hele... ...he spread of the revolt - the occupation of Delhi by the mutineers; the siege of the Residency in Lucknow where many of their friends resided; the t...

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... the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from the pangs of outcaste-ness and untouchability, which is based on birth. Thus, if the erstwhile first citizen of India faces such humiliation, what will be the plight of the last man who is a Dalit? As one of the world’s ...

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...amy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2... ... Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ... ...K. Kandasamy Cover Design and Layout by Kama Kandasamy Translated from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy Many books can be downloaded from t... ...vilization. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treated by the people who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradatio... ...cally oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in India suffer not only from the exces... ...riyar who devoted his entire life to working for the rights of the subjugated people. W.B.VASANTHA KANDASAMY FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE K.KANDASAMY ... ...ry 1958, he undertook a tour of North India and addressed meetings at Kanpur, Lucknow and New Delhi where he propagated his ideology. In June 1960, ... ...t marriage system. In October 1967, Periyar accepted an invitation to visit Lucknow and address a conference of SCs, BCs, and Minorities. In 196...

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...d Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ..........................................178 5 Rudyard Kipling Plain T ales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling To the Wittiest Woman in India I Dedicate... ...ls.” Whether Christianity improved Lispeth, or whether the gods of her own people would have done as much for her under any circumstances, I do not kn... ... over bad ground to look upon. Lispeth had a Greek face—one of those faces people paint so often, and see so seldom. She was of a pale, ivory color an... ... not abandon it when she reached womanhood, as do some Hill girls. Her own people hated her because she had, they said, become a memsahib and washed h... ...ey at every step, from Dindigul to his station. He dropped Mrs. Haggert at Lucknow, to stay with some friends there, to take part in a big ball at the... ...Munzil, and to come on when he had made the new home a little comfortable. Lucknow was Hannasyde’s station, and Mrs. Haggert stayed a week there. Hann... ...ng of for the past month. The unwisdom of his conduct also struck him. The Lucknow week, with two dances, and an unlimited quan- tity of rides togethe...

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...d away, till he came across the woman who took opium and learned the taste from her, and died as poor whites die in India. His estate at death consist... ...ith an immense success. T rue, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi 5 Rudyard Kipling Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in... ...and sounds of the women’s world on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop to housetop under cover of the hot dark. Then there were holy... ...ead to one side, considering and interested. ‘Give me the bowl. I know the people of this city–all who are charitable. Give, and I will bring it back ... ...hild the old man handed him the bowl. [start here] ‘Rest, thou. I know the people.’ He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low caste vegetable... ..., too, I think that so old a man as thou, speaking the truth to chance met people at dusk, is in great need of a disciple.’ ‘But the River–the River o... ...ooling a boy can get in India is, of course, at St Xavier’s in Partibus at Lucknow.’ This took some time to interpret, for Bennett wished to cut it sh... ... annum three hundred rupees a year to one expensive educa tion St Xavier, Lucknow, and allow small time to forward same per hoondi sent to any part o... ...w, where’s a street beggar to raise three hundred rupees?–ye’ll go down to Lucknow and I’ll pay your fare, because I can’t touch the subscription mone...

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...Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE .............................................................................................................................................. 4 OF THOSE CALLED ..................................................

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...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE ............................................................. ... Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling 1895 THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE Hit a man an’ help a woman, an’ ye can’t be far wrong anyw... ... Mulvaney. THE I NEXPRESSIBLES gave a ball. They borrowed a seven- pounder from the Gunners, and wreathed it with laurels, and made the dancing-floor ... ...ggage, you divil,” sez I, “or I’ll murther you!” ‘The lights av the thraps people comin’ from the Gaff was showin’ across the parade ground, an’, by t... ... that wicked ould woman, I’ll send a thrifle to Father Victor for the poor people he’s always beggin’ for.’ But me an’ Orth’ris, he bein’ Cockney an’ ... ...ounds a curious sort of message that to deliver on a dead still night. The people tumbled up in their dressing-gowns and pyjamas, and wouldn’t believe... .... ‘Bout that—from what Markyn said. MACKESY. Then I’ve met her. She was at Lucknow last season. ‘Owned a permanently juvenile Mamma, and danced damnab... .... ‘They have ordered the 118th to go in its stead. That Regi- ment goes to Lucknow in three months, unless they give a fresh order.’ ‘That is so,’ sai...

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...ried like a bale, among scenes that had attracted me in youth and health. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four... ... found life most pleasant and man most interesting; the axes of my black boys are already clearing the foundations of my fu- ture house; and I must le... ...ne case exactly noted. Although the dawn was thus preparing by four, the sun was not up till six; and it was half-past five before we could distinguis... ...e woman was a savage, said they, and spoke no language. ‘Mais, vous savez,’ objected the fair sentimentalist; ‘Ils apprennent si vite l’Anglais!’ But ... ...t only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered. These points of similari... ...self, Hoka was still staring and ruffling like a gamecock. It was a Corsican who had years before called him Cochon Sauvage—Cocon Chauvage, as Hoka mi... ...nt. He was naturally ignorant of English history, so that I had much of news to communicate. The story of Gordon I told him in full, and many episodes...

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...lik Shah the Grandson, of T oghrul Beg the T artar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the Great, and founded that Seljukian D... ...atesmen—relates the follow- ing, as quoted in the Calcutta Review, No. 59, from Mirkhond’s History of the Assassins. “‘One of the greatest of the wise... ...redly attain to honor and happiness. For this cause did my father send me from T us to Naishapur with Abd-us-samad, the doctor of law, that I might e... ...al, but turning it to a mystical Use more convenient to Themselves and the People they addressed; a People quite as quick of Doubt as of Belief; as ke... ...aks of his Copy as containing about 200, while Dr. Sprenger catalogues the Lucknow MS. at double that number.* The Scribes, too, of the Oxford and Ca... ...ory less liable to mistake or abuse had been better among so inflammable a People: much more so when, as some think with Hafiz and Omar, the abstract ... ...om, I was never deep in anything but—Wine. LVII. Ah, by my Computations, People say, Reduce the Year to better reckoning?—Nay, ’T was only strik...

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...ng. P . S.—On second thoughts I should recommend you to keep the book away from Mrs. Mafflin. POOR DEAR MAMMA The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky, The... ...nt any-thing, dear? Miss THREEGAN. (Extracting long lavender silk stocking from the rubbish.) You know him better than I do. 6 Rudyard Kipling Miss D... ...PTAIN GADSBY. (Aside.) The filly, by Jove! ‘Must ha’ picked up that action from the sire. (Aloud, rising.) Good evening, Miss Threegan. Miss T . (Cons... ...lo ghar ko jaldi, jhampani! (Go home, jhampani.) THE WORLD WITHOUT Certain people of importance. SCENE.—Smoking-room of the Degchi Club. Time, 10.30 P... ...at—from what from what Markyn said. MACKESY. Then I’ve met her. She was at Lucknow last sea- son. ‘Owned a permanently juvenile Mamma, and danced damn... ... you know that there was to be nothing of that sort between us. We) of all people in the world, can’t afford it. Is it the Vaynor man, and don’t you l... ... a shudder.) Thank you. B-but even Red In- 32 Rudyard Kipling dians allow people to wriggle when they’re being tortured, I believe. (Slips fan from g...

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... was so rich in the gifts which make tea- parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, pro... ...elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread... ...ss which inevitably attends the entrance of a stranger into a room full of people much at their ease, and all launched upon sentences. At the same tim... ... draw- ing-room seemed very remote and still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on ... ...still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in ... ...e- ing much about the same age and both under thirty, they were prohibited from the use of a great many convenient phrases which launch conversation i... ...s Sir Richard Warburton, you know, and rode with Havelock to the Relief of Lucknow. And then, let me see—oh, that’s the original Alardyce, 1697, the f... ...John Franklin to the North Pole, and ridden with Havelock to the Relief of Lucknow, and when they were not lighthouses firmly based on rock for the gu...

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...ve both other duties.” “Oh,” but if I built a church! I dare say there are people at Caergwent as poor as they are here. Couldn’t we build a church, a... ... understand that ‘the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth in nothing from a servant, but is under tutors and governors.’ You will not have any p... ...rence to the sorrow of the household al- ways made her anxious to get away from the subject, so she looked at her finger again, and asked, “Then am I ... ...choly event,” suggested Mary. “Yes, to be sure. I can’t think why grown-up people always write on purpose for one not to read them.—’Melancholy event ... ...y, or quite to know what she was about. She went skipping restlessly about from one chair to another, chattering fast about what she would do, and won... ...e her little Kate happy and good. She was sure they were proud, hard, cold people; and her father had many talks with her, to try to comfort her about... ...own regiment, had never recovered a wound he had received at the relief of Lucknow, and that if he did not get better at Simlah, where his mother had ... ... but it is most unfortunate. The boy has never recovered from his wound at Lucknow, and they could not bear to part, or they ought to have sent him ho...

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...stonished at her R-l H-ss’s question. The P-cess then spoke of some trifle from my pen, which was simply signed Goliah Gahagan. There was, unluckily, ... ...I am obliged always to write the name of Goliah in full, to distinguish me from my brother, Gregory Gahagan, who was also a Major (in the King’s servi... ...The circumstance was this: I had been lucky enough to render the Nawaub of Lucknow some trifling service (in the notori- ous affair of Choprasjee Muck... ...better have yielded it at once, when he saw I was deter- mined to have it. From this slight specimen of my adventures, the reader will perceive that m... ... called Bay Ah of Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Sheeny was with the Queen’s people, not in a military capacity, but as representative of an English jou... ...agger?” [Here was a pretty conspiracy!] “No, I saw him, but not alone; his people were always with him.” “Hurrumzadeh! it is a pity; we waited but the... ...was an impostor. “Ho, Begum!” shouted he, in the ante-room (for he and his people could not enter the women’s apartments), “speak, O my daughter! is y...

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...The circumstance was this: I had been lucky enough to render the Nawaub of Lucknow some trifling service (in the notori- ous affair of Choprasjee Muck...

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...r slough the dross of Earth — E’en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. So... ...waddy chills, An’ a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We ‘eld our ... ... SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don’t you march with my true love?” “We’re fresh from of... ...velly From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore, Hong-Kong and Peshawur, Lucknow and Etawah, And fifty-five more all endin’ in “pore”. Black Death a... ...ghing spoke from the wall: “Oh, they mourn here: let me by — Azizun, the Lucknow nautch-girl, I! When the house is rotten, the rats must fly, An... ... his soul On a North-bred dancing-girl: That he prayed to a flat-nosed Lucknow god, And kissed the ground where her feet had trod, And doomed to d... ...us Gods are made, And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him. . . . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — ma... ... 1889 to 1896 129 And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him… . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — man — ... ...ding their neighbours’ tails: — “Our fathers lived in the forest, Foolish people were they, They went down to the cornland To teach the farmers to p...

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...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ... the rivers. He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to b... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...ss, and read and write like themselves, so that they could hardly be known from the Romans. Only the wild ones beyond the wall, and in the mountains, ... ...Charlotte M. Yonge There were some more English holding out in the city of Lucknow, and they longed to go to their relief; but first Delhi, where the ... ...rom England to help their comrades, and they were able at last to march to Lucknow. There, week after week, the English soldiers, men of business, lad...

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...uite young girls now,” said Grace, half perplexed, half annoyed. “Exactly, from this moment we are established as the 4 The Clever Woman of the Famil... ...other white muslin.” “I have done with white muslin,” said Rachel, rousing from her reverie. “It is an affectation of girlish simplicity not be- comin... ...l in a measure; but I am five and twenty, and I will no longer be withheld from some path of usefulness! I will judge for myself, and when my mission ... ...estioning and perplexed. “I was thinking,” said Grace, “that I believe the people at the Cliff Cottages are going away, and that Miss Williams might b... ...iving in state here,” said Rachel; “I never could enter into the cult some people, mamma especially, pay to their drawing-room.” The Major used to be ... ...e less than one or 42 The Clever Woman of the Family two and thirty! Many people set up for beauties with far less claim. What is the matter with her... ... lost sight of the Beauchamps. We saw the name in the Gazette as killed at Lucknow, but not the right Christian name nor the same rank; but then, thou... ...sped in it by a large emerald, a memory of her father’s last siege—that of Lucknow. “She is a very pretty creature,” said the Colonel, under the spark... ... your matron’s likeness was a very handsome Sepoy havildar whom we took at Lucknow, a capital soldier before the mutiny, and then an ineffable ruf- fi...