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February 2024

February 14, 2024
THE TALE OF GUNGA RAM Charles Johnston. May 20 1889.   When the lesser rains...
February 14, 2024
LALA BAI Charles Johnston. Second Week Of May 1889.   The change of setting on...
February 14, 2024
PROSTITUTION AND INTERMARRIAGE IN COLONIAL BENGAL   Before we return to the courtroom, a little...
February 14, 2024
THE MURDER OF BUDDUN DAS Charles Johnston. Second Week Of May 1889.   Wonderful Mother...
February 14, 2024
VEROCHKA’S LETTERS Vera Johnston April 14, May 4, May 11, 1889   In Verochka’s next...
February 13, 2024
GOPAL BABA Charles Johnston April 1889.   We first saw Gopal Baba on an early...
February 13, 2024
HOW THE NAWAB'S ARMY WAS KIDNAPPED Charles Johnston April 1, 1889.   “Huzoor!” said the...
February 13, 2024
SAINT APRIL   It was just around the time that Johnston was studying for his...
February 13, 2024
SANSKRIT EXAMINATION Charles Johnston March 1889.   In every case, the British Indian government has...
February 13, 2024
  BERHAMPORE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY   The ascendency of the Bhadra Lok created a social ecology...
February 12, 2024
ANGLO INDIA   Tuite-Dalton took his leave of absence in late-February His replacement, John Gerald...
February 12, 2024
  WHO SOWS SESAME REAPS SESAME Charles Johnston February 1889.   The Nawab sent us...
February 12, 2024
MAHARANI SWARNAMOYEE   One of the first acts of official business Johnston was assigned, was...
February 12, 2024
THE PAVANE OF AN INDIAN DYNASTY   Johnston turned twenty-two on February 17, 1889. He...
February 11, 2024
THE DAGHEE Charles Johnston Mid-February 1889.   Who would have thought there was a woman...
February 11, 2024
BHADRA LOK.   The upheaval of societal change in nineteenth century Bengal resulted in the...
February 11, 2024
TUSSAR SILK. Charles Johnston January 1889.   We were driving along a country road with...
February 11, 2024
BRICKS OF OPIUM Charles Johnston January 1889.   Tuite-Dalton gave me charge of a police-court,...
February 11, 2024
THE CIVIL STATION   The “Club” and the clubhouse was an important social institution. “In...
February 11, 2024
MURSHID QULI KHAN   Before the British, the provinces of the Mughal Empire were a...
February 11, 2024
BERHAMPORE Charles Johnston Late December 1888-Early January 1889.   It was at the junction of...
February 07, 2024
  Nikolai Ivanovich Achinov (1856-1902,) whom the press described as a “personage something after the...

January 2024

January 13, 2024
  GHOST MOSUKE ACT III. X. ⸻   “I belong to the Society because of...
January 13, 2024
    Marie Sinclair. (wiki)   Marie Sinclair (1830-1895) was the only surviving daughter of...
January 07, 2024
  Throughout the nineteenth century, policy-makers in Britain maintained that the preservation of the Ottoman...
January 07, 2024
THE FENIAN ACT III. IX. ⸻ “Maud Gonne wants to meet John O’Leary,” said Oldham,...
January 07, 2024
  Sylvester Baxter, 1889.[1]   Sylvester Baxter (1850-1927,) a New Englander with a pedigree on...

December 2023

December 31, 2023
  Hiram Erastus Butler (1841-1916.)[1] Butler was born in Pennsylvania in 1841, was never attracted...
December 31, 2023
    Progressivism is a theology. It is a truth-claim. It is not a synonym...
December 31, 2023
    To understand the origins of “Anti-Semitism” we must first find the origins of...
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