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About The Book : The object of this book has been to try to interest holiday people in our greatest I dependency and its two hundred millions of our fellow subjects. During the two winters the author have spent in India. The author have been much affected by the many social, political and religious problems awaiting solution by its people and their Government, but the author do not discuss them in these pages, which contain no controversial matter, either political or religious. The author only try to rouse superficial interest, by a plain statement of what may be seen by an ordinary traveller, in the most accessible portions of British India. My longest excursion does not leave the Railroad more than fifty miles, and none of the places described are inaccessible to a British tourist in good health. The author have supplemented my verbal descriptions with illustrations of buildings, scenery, types of nationality and incidents of the bazar which will, The author believe, be found very helpful to my readers; one good picture is worth many pages of written description, and the author can vouch for their truth and accuracy. About The Author : William Sproston Caine (1842–1903) was a British politician and temperance advocate. Caine was born at Seacombe, Cheshire, and was the eldest surviving son of Nathaniel Caine, a metal merchant from Cheshire, and was educated at private schools in Egremont, Merseyside and Birkenhead before entering his father's business in 1861. In 1864 he was made a partner, before moving to Liverpool in 1871. In 1873 he was recorded at 16 Alexandra Drive, Liverpool. Public Affairs soon began to occupy large amounts of his attention, and he left the firm in 1878. After his retirement from his father's company, he retained the directorship of the Hodbarrow Mining Co. Ltd, Millom, and he secured the controlling interest in the Shaw's Brown Iron Co., Liverpool, leaving the management of the concern in the hands of his partner, Arthur S. Cox. The business collapsed in 1893, leaving large amounts of debt which were honourably discharged, but Caine's resources were afterwards largely devoted to paying off the mortgage which he raised to meet the firm's losses. Caine was brought up as a Baptist under the ministry of Hugh Stowell Brown, whose daughter Alice married Caine in 1868.