An Indian pilgrimage; travel notes of a visit to the Indian fields of the Church of Scotland . perity of India. Whether it be inpolitics or commerce, social development or education,Calcutta leads India. As to whether it is the secondcity of the Empire or not, that is a question to bediscussed with Bombay and Glasgow. All three makethe claim, but it is near enough the truth to class themas second equal, each having a population of aboutone million. Eighteen years had passed since last we visited Cal-cutta, and the huge developments that have taken placesince that day overwhelmed one. The Londo
An Indian pilgrimage; travel notes of a visit to the Indian fields of the Church of Scotland . perity of India. Whether it be inpolitics or commerce, social development or education,Calcutta leads India. As to whether it is the secondcity of the Empire or not, that is a question to bediscussed with Bombay and Glasgow. All three makethe claim, but it is near enough the truth to class themas second equal, each having a population of aboutone million. Eighteen years had passed since last we visited Cal-cutta, and the huge developments that have taken placesince that day overwhelmed one. The London of theEast, the Duke of Connaught termed it on his recentvisit, and the comparison is very apt. There is thesame sense of the vastness of the city, the insignificanceof ones own individual self, the same ceaseless tread ofmyriads of human beings, and the same mad rush ofthousands of motor-cars and taxi-cabs, driven at a ratecalculated to slay a hundred daily. Oh for a lodge insome vast wilderness, was the secret desire of ones was to come in due time—but first the Street Scene, Lahore.
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