Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . es of the immense amounts of gold and jewelshoarded up. The beginnings of the native strong-hold reach far back in history. Amber is said tobe mentioned by Ptolemy. While the ancient city is largely in ruins, themodern city of Jaipur is flourishing, well-preservedand well-governed, and by no means lacking infeatures of magnificence quite its own. For theRoyal House of Jaipur has been, on the whole, pe-culiarly favored as respects its native princes, eversince Jai Si
Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . es of the immense amounts of gold and jewelshoarded up. The beginnings of the native strong-hold reach far back in history. Amber is said tobe mentioned by Ptolemy. While the ancient city is largely in ruins, themodern city of Jaipur is flourishing, well-preservedand well-governed, and by no means lacking infeatures of magnificence quite its own. For theRoyal House of Jaipur has been, on the whole, pe-culiarly favored as respects its native princes, eversince Jai Singh II founded Jaipur in 1728. TheRaja of the time when we were there, so far assigns appeared obvious to foreign eyes, seemed aruler not unworthy to be the descendant of the bestof his ancestors. At any rate, not being acquaintedwith, or empowered to go behind the curtain and see,the real actors, whether in the comedy or the tragedyof government, and so decide how much credit wasdue to native Rajas and how much to British Resi-dents, we will be content to tell what we saw. Andwhat we say seemed to us important testimony to. A WISE PATERNAL GOVERNMENT A Model Native City 83 the excellences of a good and wise paternal goverrirment, administered by the native princes under thefriendly and kindly advisement and assistance of theprevalent foreign control. Our first visit was to the Museum where we re-ceived a most cordial welcome from the native chief-attendant in charge. He had read of the lecturesin Bombay and was most effusive—native like—inhis compliments. On the ground-floor of this build-ing is an interesting and large collection of art-work,—especially of the metal and textile work ofIndia, but almost exclusively modem. In the lec-ture-room of the Museum, examinations for the Gov-ernment College were at the time being held. Forpublic instruction has made greater progress inJaipur than in any other states of Rajputana. TheCollege is affiliated with the University of Cal
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