81 Mahatma Gandhi, like Jinnah and Nehru a London-trained lawyer, seems to have created a new religion of his own - using elements of Hindu and Buddhist ascetic practices.
82 For Grand Trunk. There are GT Roads in towns all along the old Grand Trunk Road that connected Peshawar near the Afghan border to Calcutta, via Rawalpindi, Lahore, Amritsar, Meerut, Cawnpore, Allahabad and Benares.
83 It’s sobering to reflect that a woman who leaves the house and is even suspected of tarnishing her owner’s “honor” can be sentenced to gang rape by a village kangaroo court, some members of which carry out the “punishment” - with the woman’s owner’s consent.
84 Only by chance did the CIA find out that three top-ranking officers on the nuclear team were Taliban double agents. All attempts to find out about others have been repeatedly rebuffed.
Epilogue
Ian and Gillian returned to their yacht Vasco da Gama in southern Turkey to write this book and edit the photographs and videos.
Sita found work as a producer’s assistant in Bollywood.
Satan found new work as a bearer.
Smythe returned to Sydney and took over fully the family business managing tours.
Livy and Clara returned to London and New York respectively.
Mark Twain wrote Following the Equator, also in London. There’s a happy ending.
The New York Times
January 1, 1898
Mark Twain Paying His Firm’s Debts
Samuel L. Clemens (“Mark Twain”), says The Publishers’ Weekly, has just made a payment of 25 percent to the creditors of C. L. Webster & Co., which failed in 1894, and in which Mr. Clemens was heavily interested. The assignee, Bainbridge Colby, of 120 Broadway, managed to realize 28 percent of the liabilities out of the assets of the firm and of the personal estate of Mr. Clemens, which was turned over to him at once. With one or two exceptions, the creditors offered to settle with 50 cents on the dollar, and this sum Mr. Clemens paid last year. He, however, stated that he should take no advantage of any bankruptcy law, but would, if given time, pay dollar for dollar of the indebtedness. He has kept his word, and has now made a payment that wipes out 75 percent of his liabilities. Mr. Clemens hopes inside of four years to make his final payment. It is to be hoped Mr. Clemens may be granted the satisfaction of seeing his great undertaking accomplished. He is sixty-four years old.
The New York Times
March 12, 1898
Mark Twain’s debts as paid. Lecture Tour and “Following the Equator” raise the funds
Mark Twain has paid all the debts that led to the bankruptcy of the publishing firm with which he was connected. It is a fine example of the very chivalry of probity, and, in the circumstances, as an admirer has pointed out, it deserves to rank with the historic case of Sir Walter Scott. The firm came to grief; Mark Twain might, if he had pleased, have confined his share of the loss to the amount of his liability under the partnership. He preferred to make good the entire loss, and to this end he had to make a fresh start in life at the age of sixty. He accomplished it, and with this and the profits of his latest book, Following the Equator, he has carried out his high-minded and generous purpose.
He has gained the esteem of all men of honor throughout the world. This act is the best of all critical commentaries on the high moral teaching of his books. He needs all the encouragement of sympathy. He has paid his debts, but he has still to make another fortune, and he is sixty-three!
Index
Ada Villa, see Windamere Hotel
Akbar Fort, Allahabad, 44, 54, 55
All Saints Cathedral, Allahabad, 44, 48
All Souls Cathedral, Kanpur, 165
Allahabad Pioneer, 50
American Center in Mumbai, 67
Amherst, Lady, 109
Archaeological Survey of India, 105, 122, 173, 196
Armstrong, Karen, 90
Aru, Anuradha Aru, Secretary to the Secretary to the Governor of Maharashtra, 15
Asian Age, 117, 118
Auckland, Lord, 109
Aurangzeb, Moghul Emperor, 72
Avari Hotel, Lahore, 206, 212
Ayatollah Khomeini, 218
Babur, Moghul Emperor, 34
Bahadur, Nawab Shah Rookh Yar Jung, 29
Banswara, His Highness the Maha Rawal of, 16
Barnet’s Hotel, Sir G. H. Barnet, Allahabad, 48
Baroda, His Highness the Gaikwar of, 30
Belvedere, Calcutta, 102, 120, 121, 174
Bengal Club, Calcutta, 102, 110, 115, 116
Bentinck, Lady, 109
Bhopol, His Highness the Nawab of, 16
Bhutto, Benazir, 204, 216
Black Hole of Calcutta, 110
Blue Book, 16
Bomanji, Sir Dhanjbhoy, 30
Bombay Gazette, 9, 10, 11, 31
Bombay Presidency, 15
Bombay, Bishop of, 31
Bundi, His Highness the Maha Rao Raja of, 16
Calcutta Hindoo Patriot, 51, 86
Campbell, Joseph, 90
Campbell, Sir Colin, 155
Catherine of Braganza, 14
Cawnpore Club, 165
Century magazine, 31
Charles II, King
Charnock, Jobe, 99, 101
Charusheela, John, see Sita
Chatter Manzil, Lucknow, see Umbrella Palace
Chauchan, Mahendrasinh, secretary to Gaekwad, Yuvraj (Prince) Samarjitsingh, Yuvaraj Sahib of Baroda, 39
Clemens family on tour, see Twain party
Clemens, Clara, 2, 13, 23, 35, 36, 110, 134, 177, 188, 214
Clemens, Livy, 2, 13, 23, 35, 124, 134, 174, 177, 182, 214
Clinton, Hilary, 97
Clive, Robert of India, 45, 47, 106, 107, 111, 119
Continental Hotel, Claudia, 103
Cornwallis, Lord, 107
Crystal Palace, London, 6
Curzon, Lord, 107, 108, 111, 121
Das, Sudipto, 117
Deshpande, Shrikant, Secretary to the Governor of Maharashtra, 15
Diana, Princess of Wales, 18
Dubeyji, Dr., 167
Dufferin, Lady, 109
Edward VII, King, 180
Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 20
Elgin, Lord, 109
Ellenborough, Lord, 109
Elmira, New York, 51
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 95, 96
Emerson, Sir William, 44, 106
Excelsior Cinema, Bombay, 8
Flashman’s Hotel, Rawalpindi, 216, 217
Following the Equator, 63, 64, 67, 77, 169, 171, 177
Fraser, William. 191
Frere, Sir Bartle, 47
Gaekwad, Yuvraj (Prince) Samarjitsingh, Yuvaraj Sahib of Baroda, 39
Gandhi, Indira, 19
Gandhi, Mahatma, 97, 127, 202
Garrick Club, London, 13
Gateway of India, 5, 12
Genghis Khan, 34
George V, King, 194
Gill, Jasjit Singh, 8
Giri, Rajesh, 52
GJM, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, 119, 127, 128, 133, 134, 138
Goldring, William, 40
Gondal, His Highness the Thakar of, 16
Governor’s House, Bombay, 14
Great Exhibition, London, 6
Gwaekor, Maharaja of, 35
Hardinge, Lord, 109
Harsh, Adinath, 49
Hastings, Warren, 100, 106, 107, 109, 119
Headley, David 204
Hendley, Colonel Thomas Holbein, 177, 179
Hindu Rao Hospital, Delhi, 191
Honorable East India Company, 14, 34, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 60, 72, 99, 111, 112, 113, 126, 150, 157, 195, 216
Hotel Harsh, Allahabad, 48
Huckleberry Finn, 10, 95
Hyderabad, His Exalted Highness the Nizam of, 16
Imambara Complex, Lucknow, 151, 152
In-Travel magazine, 117
India International Centre, Delhi, 199
Indian Air Force, 38
Indian Museum, Claudia, 102, 120
Indian Mutiny, see Sepoy Uprising
Indian Railways, 24, 27,
Innocence and War, 63, 169
Innocents Abroad, The, 63, 169
ISI, 201, 209, 218
Jaipur Club, 177, 184
Jamwal, Lt. Col. KSS (Ret’d), 32
Jehangir, Sir Cowasji, 29
Jimmy Shergill, 8
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, 201, 202
Jodhpur, His Highness the Maharaja of, 30
Joy Unconfined! Lord Byron’s Grand Tour Re-Toured, 13, 115, 116
Junagadh, His Highness the Nawab of, 30
Jung, Karl-Gustav, 90
Kaye, Sir John 47
Kedlestone Hall, 108
Keen, H. G., 47
Khan, A. Q. 219
Khan, His Exalted Highness the Aga, 29, 48
Khan, Liaquat Ali, 217
Kipling, Rudyard, 49, 50, 51, 99, 101, 102, 114, 177
Kothari, Sir Jehangir, 30
Kumbh Mela, 44, 52, 56, 57
La Martiniere, Lucknow, 151, 157
Lahore, Maharaja of, 74
Lawrence, Sir Henry, 45
Laxmi Vilas Palace, 35, 38, 39
Lonely Planet, 63, 160
Lumley, Joanna, 127
Lytton, Lady, 109
Magh Mela, 56, 57, 117
Maharaja of Cooch Behar, 126
Maharaja Ram Singh II, 180
Mark Twain Project, UC Berkeley, 4
Mark, Shaurya, Cultural Attaché, Indian High Commission, London, 4, 162
Martin, Major General Claude, 157
Mayo, Lady, 109
Moghul Empire, 15
Mohamed Bagh Club, Lucknow, 150, 151
Mountbatten, Lord 202
Muzaffarpur Club, 143
Mysore, His Highness the Maharaja of, 16
Nana Sahib, 162, 163, 165
Nazeer, Lt. Col. Amrind G. K., 151
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 19, 121, 122, 202
Neill, General, 165
New York Herald, 51
New York World, 51
Nicholson, Brigadier General John, 196
Northbrook, Lord, 109
Novelty Theatre, Bombay, 8, 9,
Oberoi Grand Hotel, Calcutta, 103, 115
Ochterlony, Sir David, 102, 113, 116
Order of Preference, 16
Oudh, Kingdom of, 45, 150, 153
Oxford Book Store, Calcutta, 115
Palanpur, His Highness the Deewan of, 16
Parker, Reverend, 65, 68, 95
Planters’ Club, Darjeeling, 131, 133, 137
Plassey, Battle of, 111
Poona Club, 30, 32, 215
Poona Gymkhana Club, 29
Princely States, 15
Railway Club, Allahabad, 49, 50
Railway Theatre, Lahore, 207, 210
Raj Bhavan, Bombay, 14, 21
Raj Bhavan, Calcutta, 102, 104, 108, 109
Rajkot, His Highness the Thakore Sahib of, 16
Rajpipla, His Highness the Maharaja of, 30
Red Fort, Agra, 176
Red Fort, Delhi, 195, 196
Residency, The, Lucknow, 154, 156
Richard Sahib, Hindu god, 59, 60
Richard, Sir Cliff, 158
Romanov’s, London, 4
Romer, Timothy, US Ambassador, 97
Royal Bombay Yacht Club, 5, 12, 102, 115
Royal Theatre, Calcutta, 102, 115, 119
Sandhurst, Governor and Lady, 13
Sankaranarayanan, Shri Kateekal, Governor of Maharashtra, 15
Saraswati, Swami Sri Bhaskarananda, 94
Sasoon, Sir David, 30
Sassoon, Sir Victor, 30
Sawantwadi, His Highness the Saraswati Desai of, 16
Sayajirao III, the Maharaja of Gwaekor, 37
Sepoy Uprising, 44, 47, 48, 60, 112, 121, 125, 150, 154, 157, 158, 161, 163, 192, 195, 196
Shah, Aga Jalal M., 29
Shah, Aga Kasim, 29
Sharma, Pankar, 183
Sharma, Sanjay T. G. (Col. Rtd.), 144, 146, 148
Sheraton Hotel, Jaipur, 183, 186
Singh, Manmohan, 97
Singh, Mohit, 162
Sita, 5, 7, 8, 27, 48, 52, 59, 68, 74, 79, 84, 86, 97, 103, 109, 113, 115, 122, 133, 142, 147, 161, 162, 166, 169, 174, 184, 186, 196, 200, 222
Smythe, Carlyle G., 2, 9, 23, 25, 28, 35, 39, 100, 123, 124, 135, 138, 142, 146, 177, 188, 214, 215
St. John’s Cathedral, Calcutta, 111, 112
St. Louis Dispatch, 177
St. Pancras Station, London, 6
Standard, The, 137
Statesman, The, 102, 103, 116, 117
Stephen, Arathoon Oberoi, 103
Taj Mahal, 106, 107, 158, 167-170, 175
Taj Mahal Hotel, 5, 12
Taseer, Salmaan, 209
Tata, Jamsetji, 5
Tata, Sir Dorab, 30
Times of India, 8, 12, 103, 116, 119, 184, 206
Tom Sawyer, 10
Towers of Silence, 20, 21
Tripathy, Shailesh, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 76, 77, 79, 84, 85, 86
Twain party, 3, 6, 7, 43, 100, 103, 121, 123, 129, 135, 138, 143, 150, 158, 173, 203, 206, 219
Umbrella Palace, Lucknow, 151, 154
Vasco da Gama, 220
Victoria Memorial, 102, 104, 105, 107
Victoria, Queen and Empress, 24, 107, 180
Wadia, Sir Cusrow, 30
Wadia, Sir Nusserwanjee, 29
Wadvani, Sanjay, British Deputy High Commissioner, 110, 119
Warrant of Preference, 16
Watson’s Hotel, Bombay, 2, 23, 24, 104
Wheeler, Sir Hugh, 162
Wikileaks, 204
Windamere Hotel, Darjeeling, 125, 129, 131, 132, 134
World Monuments Fund, 7
Writers Building, Calcutta, 112, 122
www.strathcarrons-ahoy.com, 117
www.twaintraveler.com, 103
Zardari, President, 208, 215, 217
Zia, General, 216, 217
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