Indian Antiquary Vol 32

SR No.: 032524
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 550
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
the headquarters of the English in India. Amongst the sites suggested (which, of course, must be outside Mogul territory) were Dabul, the Maldives, a place called "London's Hope," and Bombay; and the mention of the last-named place leads him to describe the recent attack upon that settlement, in which he himself had borne a part. This he does as follows:
"For Bumbay wee were there last yeare with our 6 Ships & 8 sayle of Dutch, in search of the Portingall Gallions, but found them not. Here after wee had bin before it 24 howers, the Comanders being a board of us resolved to goe with all our bardges & boats to vew the place, to see if wee might land without danger. After there departuer from aboard of us, it was Mr. Wills his fortune & mine to come after them in our shalloop; & after our departner from our Ships, wee espied aboate in a sandy [bay ?] to the westward of the forte, which boate wee resolved to fetch of. Coming n[eare] the forte, it shott divers times at us, & som smale shott placed at us out of the Corner of a wood where the Boate lay. Notwithstanding wee went aboard of her, which wee found to be one (sic) ground & the peple fledd. Whereupon wee landed, and being seconded by 2 or 3 boates of men that Followed us, wee Martch up to the fort, which was left voyde unto us. Som of our men fired a house; by which accident the Comanders perceiving the successe, came ashore unto us, where wee continued all night & till next day in the Evening, at which time the whole towne & fort being burnt to the ground by the Dutch & us, wee departed. This Towne yealded noe benifitt to us nor the Dutch, there being nothing left in it that was worth Oarradge, except it were salt fish & Rice, which was consumed with the fier. The Rest of there goods, in regard of our Long being before before (sic) wee had landed they had conveyed
away.
THE MALABAR QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. I., No. 1, March, 1902. Ernakulam, Cochin Government Press. Annual Subscription, Rs. 5.
THE extreme South has long been an "advanced" portion of India, and this Review, conducted almost entirely by Hindus, does credit to their education and to the interest taken by them in their own country in its present and in its past. The list of the articles in the first number shows the nature of the studies of the contributors, who, from the inner front cover,
[JANUARY, 1903.
"This is noe good place to winter in, it being open to the Westerly [ ] & noe sucker for them from the wether. What other place ther[e is ?] in this sound (which is deepe & undiscovered by any of us) to winter in, is un[known to all us then that were there present."
WILLIAM FOSTER.
COMMAND.
An Anglo-Indianism.
COMMAND and on command are terms that should be in Yule as distinct "Hobson-Jobsons": meaning to all natives of India a duty on detachment or away from head-quarters, and hence to head-quarters, an outstation. the detachment itself and any place subsidiary
BOOK-NOTICE.
Here is a curious instance of the spread of the term beyond the borders of the British Empire :
"1899. The choice of warders was made from those classes best suited for the control of their fellow-prisoners, especially in the outstations or commands, as they were called. .
it was necessary to provide accommodation for them in convict lines or commands as we have said, pronounced kumman [kaman] by the convicts Simpson, in his Side Lights on Siberia, uses command aa denoting a jail outside of the prison walls."— McNair, Prisoners their own Warders, pp. 19, 21.
The Andaman Penal Settlement is in some. respects the successor of the system employed first under Sir Stamford Raffles at Bencoolen, and then at Penang, Malacca, Singapore, and Maulmain. In the Andamans command is in common use for a duty or a place away from head-quarters.
R. C. TEMPLE.
are very numerous. This list is as follows:Sri Sankaracharya, his Life and Work: The Nambudris of Malabar: Travancore in the Eighteenth Century: The Origin of the Malayalam Language: Marriage among the Malayalis: Our Country (a short poem): Some distinctive features of Malabar Sociology and their Effects.
It gives us great pleasure to notice this new attempt on the part of the Natives of India themselves to study subjects with which this Journal has been so long connected.