Part 1

TWENTY-ONE DAYS IN INDIA

Or, The Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.

and THE TEAPOT SERIES

GEORGE R. ABERIGH-MACKAY Sometime Principal of the Rajkumar College Indore

Ninth Edition with New Illustrations and Elucidations

1914

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE

In this edition it has been considered advisable to reproduce, verbatim, only the "Twenty-one Days" as originally published in Vanity Fair, the additional series of six included in several editions of the book issued after the Author's death being omitted.

The twenty-one papers in question have been supplemented by contributions to The Bombay Gazette, which appeared in that daily newspaper during the whole of the year 1880, the year before the Author's death, under the nom de plume of "Our Political Orphan;" and the Publishers beg to tender their best thanks to the proprietors of that newspaper for the permission thus generously accorded for their present reproduction.

In carrying out the work of revision many passages previously omitted have been restored to the text. To render such readily apparent to the reader, they have in every case been enclosed in [] brackets.

A new series of illustrations has been specially prepared for this edition by Mr. George Darby of Calcutta, and the Publishers venture to think he has succeeded in a marked degree in embodying in his sketches the spirit of the Author's subjects.

In conclusion it has been the aim of the Publishers to render this new edition of a great work by a very gifted writer as perfect as possible and worthy of acceptance as a standard Anglo-Indian classic.

LONDON

September, 1910.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. WITH THE VICEROY

II. THE A.-D.-C.-IN-WAITING, AN ARRANGEMENT IN SCARLET AND GOLD

III. WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

IV. WITH THE ARCHDEACON, A MAN OF BOTH WORLDS

V. WITH THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

VI. H.E. THE BENGALI BABOO

VII. WITH THE RAJA

VIII. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENT, A MAN IN BUCKRAM

IX. WITH THE COLLECTOR

X. BABY IN PARTIBUS

XI. THE RED CHUPRASSIE; OR, THE CORRUPT LICTOR

XII. THE PLANTER; A FARMER PRINCE