Aberigh-Mackay George Robert
George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University. Entering the Indian education department in 1870, he became professor of English literature in Delhi College in 1873, tutor to the Raja of Rutlam in 1876, and principal of the Rajkumar College at Indore in 1877. He is best known for his book Twenty-one Days in India (1878-1879), a satire upon Anglo-Indian society and modes of thought. This book gave promise of a successful literary career, but the author died at the age of thirty-three.
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Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 69 v.ir, WITH THE KAJA. Try not to laugh, Dear Vanity. I know you don't mean anything by it; but these Indian kings are so sensitive. The other day I was translating to a young Raja what Val Prinsep had said about him in his " Purple India''; he had only said that he was a dissipated young ass and as ugly as a baboon ; but the boy was quite hurt and began to cry, and I had to send for the Political Agent to quiet him and put him to sleep. When you consider the matter philosophically there is nothing per seridiculous in a Raja. Take a hypothetical case : picture to yourself a Raja who does not get drunk without some good reason, who is not ostentatiously unfaithful to his five-and- twenty queens and his five-and-tventy grand duchesses, who does not festoon his thorax and abdomen with curious cutlery and jewels, who does not paint his face with red ochre, and who sometimes takes a sidelong glance at his affairs, and there is no reason why you should not think of such a one as an Indian king. India is not very fastidious; so long as the Government is satisfied, the people of India do not much care what the Rajas are like. A peasant proprietor said to Mr. Caird and me the other day, " We are poor cultivators; we cannot afford to keep Rajas. The Rajas are for the Lord Sahib." The young Maharaja of Kuch Parwani assures me that it is not considered the thing for a Raja at the present day to govern. " A really swell Raja amuses himself." One hoards money, another plays at soldiering, a third is horsey, a fourtli is amorous, and a fifth gets drunk; at least so Kuch Parwani ONE DAY IN INDIA. 01 thinks. Please don't say that I told you this. The Foreign Secretary knows what a high opinion I have of the Rajas, and indeed he often employs me to whitewash them when they get in... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 69 v.ir, WITH THE KAJA. Try not to laugh, Dear Vanity. I know you don't mean anything by it; but these Indian kings are so sensitive. The other day I was translating to a young Raja what Val Prinsep had said about him in his " Purple India''; he had only said that he was a dissipated young ass and as ugly as a baboon ; but the boy was quite hurt and began to cry, and I had to send for the Political Agent to quiet him and put him to sleep. When you consider the matter philosophically there is nothing per seridiculous in a Raja. Take a hypothetical case : picture to yourself a Raja who does not get drunk without some good reason, who is not ostentatiously unfaithful to his five-and- twenty queens and his five-and-tventy grand duchesses, who does not festoon his thorax and abdomen with curious cutlery and jewels, who does not paint his face with red ochre, and who sometimes takes a sidelong glance at his affairs, and there is no reason why you should not think of such a one as an Indian king. India is not very fastidious; so long as the Government is satisfied, the people of India do not much care what the Rajas are like. A peasant proprietor said to Mr. Caird and me the other day, " We are poor cultivators; we cannot afford to keep Rajas. The Rajas are for the Lord Sahib." The young Maharaja of Kuch Parwani assures me that it is not considered the thing for a Raja at the present day to govern. " A really swell Raja amuses himself." One hoards money, another plays at soldiering, a third is horsey, a fourtli is amorous, and a fifth gets drunk; at least so Kuch Parwani ONE DAY IN INDIA. 01 thinks. Please don't say that I told you this. The Foreign Secretary knows what a high opinion I have of the Rajas, and indeed he often employs me to whitewash them when they get in... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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