Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-18
Tour in Upper India.

A day at Amritsar and longer visits to
Delhi and Agra are essential to the COM
pleteness of tour In upper India. Nor
could the capital of the Maharaja Sindhia
be neglected now that Gwalior can be
reached in two or three hours from Agra
instead of as in 1915 only a carriage of
seventy or eighty miles. The journey by
Gwalior to Calcutta will be broken by a
three-days' visit to Lucknow. Out of the
fortnight between arriving at and finally
leaving Calcutta on January IL three DAYS
will be given to trip to Darjilng whence
the finest of all views Of the Himalayas OBJ
tainable from hill station will, it is hoped
be unmarried by cloud The prince will
appropriately be in the metropolis of Brit
ish India on the anniversary of the proc
lamation of the imperial title at the great
assembly at Delhi on January l. 1877 Here
too. he will be able to lay the foundation
stone of the Victoria memorial, which its
designers have sought to make an orna-
ment to the capital and lasting monu-
ment to the memory of the great empress
When on January Ii the royal party reach
es Rangoon and thence proceeds to Man
dalay they will enter regions unvisited in
1870, regions indeed, which, in so far at
least as regards upper Burma, it would
nave been out of question for the prince
to visit. The era of the growth of the
British empire in India by annexation of
the interior states had ended long before
1919. With the conquest of upper Burma
In 1855 limit was practically put to its
expansion In other directions. In many
ways Burma will perhaps be the most in
terestfng part of the expedition. From
Rangoon to Madras the journey will be by
sea, thence to be continued. by rail to
Mysore. Bangalore and Haidarabad. This
part of the program was omitted in the
former visit, it was said in consequence OF
outbreak of cholera. In Mysore the
prince will be the guest of the young
maharaja, who was installed on coming OF
age in 1902 Thirty years ago the state
had not hRan restored rJIla n ffay-
It's fifty years of British administration
since the deposition Of the maharaja in
1881.
A Visit Of Supreme Interest.
The three days given to Haidarabad can
not fail to be of supreme interest both
from the fact that It is the capital OF the
largest and most important of the feuda-
the city, Its curiously cosmopolitan popula-
ton and it's surroundings. 1t is at this
stage Of the tour that relaxation from
the arduous labors of ceremonial will be
taken in shooting trip Of five days. A
flying visit to the curious rock fort Of
Baulatabad and the neighboring cave tenn
pies of Ellora will be followed by long
railway journey to Benares and q stay of
ten days in Bettiah in the NepaI Tarai At
Aligarh on March the visitors will see the
famous Mahomedan college to the institu-
ton and development Of which the late Sir
Syad Ahmad devoted his best energies.
can now be reached by railway instead of
by the wearisome carriage journey from
Umballa, which was necessary thirty years
ago. Thence there Is another long railway
journey across the PunJab. down the Indus
valley and up through the mountains to
Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan. When
the heir of Queen Victoria was in India
Quetta was practically inaccessible At
Karachi on March ID the shores of India
will be left and here the changes of
generation are particularly noticeable
From an isolated port carrying the trade
Of Sindonly, Karachi. by the linking up of
the railway. has become the natural outlet
of the great granary of the Punjab, which
already in the busy season sends down
some 7.0o0 tons of grain daily for ex-
port.
The prince is particularly fortunate In
the choice of Sir William Lawrence as the
head of his staff None but the late pri-
vate secretary of the viceroy could know
the native chiefs and the principal ON
cials-