In the Library: Notes and Bibliography

An account of a shooting case. A British soldier (Higgins) pulls out a pistol when a sugar cane seller asks for payment. A sepoy attempts t...

Quite a number of the "Week in Lahore" scraps in the Civil & Military Gazette in this time period could be authored by Kiplin...

This is something I'm working on this summer. Posting here as a test to see if it works in Blogger (Wordpress.com disallows iframe embed...

Here is an account from Lockwood Kipling of a prize ceremony that took place at Government College (now known as "Government College ...

I have a pretty substantial backlog of topics to cover, many of them connected to my brief research trip to Sussex back in June. For a vari...

In March of 1886, Edwin Arnold was visiting India for the first time in many years. He had been the principal of the Government Sanskrit C...

This is a case being tried in the Madras High Court. A family of "Moplahs" (Mappilas) are described as having been murdered -- f...

Report of an Arya Samaj meeting in Lahore, March 2, 1886. Alongside the Singh Sabha movement in the Sikh community, the Arya Samaj was a m...

Murderous oysters, a riding accident, and a military fracas (as far as I can tell, entirely involving British / European soldiers, albeit ...

From the Civil & Military Gazette of Lahore, January 18, 1886 The more I see of Madhava Rao, the less I like him. There's a whole...

Following is a long obituary for Baboo Harbans Sahay of Bihar in the Civil & Military Gazette of Lahore. The obit. sells him as a socia...

Maharjah Dalip Singh, son of Ranjit Singh, lived most of his life in exile in England after the age of 13.  In 1886 he tried to visit ...

Civil & Military Gazette , February 24, 1886. Goan man wanted for kidnapping a 15 year old Parsee girl. He persuaded her to elope wit...

Setta Rao of Mysore attempts to escape from police custody by swapping clothes with his servant, who physically resembles him. Caught anyw...

The first reference I've found in the Civil & Military Gazette to the Singh Sabha movement. Is the Bhai Nikka Singh the same Nikka...

A curious account of a Punjabi known as Tulsi Dass [sic], described as being arrested in West Ham, England, while attempting to address a c...

An Indian woman and her servant are found strangled in Lahore. February 12, 1886. The CMG surmises a link between an uptick in robberies in...

T. Madhava Rao, the "Pet Native" intellectual of the Anglo-Indian papers, is quoted in the Civil & Military Gazette  on Febru...

The CMG publishes several of Kipling's poems in the spring of 1886, always as "Departmental Ditties." 1. Kipling's poem...

Another interesting bit here -- a discussion (not taken particularly seriously by the British) of having a certain number of Indian represe...

Another sensationalistic story in the Civil & Military Gazette, this one printed on February 6 1886: Kipling sometimes took these ...

From time to time there are scraps of news in the Civil & Military Gazette I find truly surprising or weird. Here is an account appare...

Most of the time, the Church notices in the Civil and Military Gazette are relatively modest in Lahore -- only two or three churches are l...

Civil & Military Gazette prints an article on "Islamism [sic] and Sikhism" on January 15, 1886, which goes unsigned (see our ...

People may be familiar with the rough outlines of the story British annexation of Upper Burma from Amitav Ghosh's  The Glass Palace . ...

January 11, 1886 In Kipling's day, Lahore did have a rather minimal Officers' Club, where the constituency was mainly Civil S...

Civil & Military Gaxzette.  January 15, 1886 Unsigned essay comparing Islam and Sikhism. Starts as a review of a book by Hughes,...

So besides the Lahore Club (English only & with limited membership), there's a Punjab Cricket Club, with European members listed...

The imposition of the Income Tax on India in 1886 is obviously a huge deal, and the Civil & Military Gazette discusses and opines on i...

Another rant in the Civil & Military Gazette about the "Native Press." February 4, 1886 The challenge in this particular ra...