Abstract
THE editor of the Cambridge series of Provincial Geographies of India made a happy selection when he entrusted the Panjab to Sir James Douie, who during thirty-five years' work as a member of the Indian Civil Service has held the posts of Chief Secretary, Financial Commissioner, and Officiating Lieutenant-Governor; what he does not know of the Province in which he served is not worth knowing. In a series of chapters packed with information he discusses the physiography, ethnology, sociology, history, archaeology, and administration of an area of one quarter of a million square miles, comparable in extent, as well as in other respects, with Austria-Hungary. To summarise this amount of information within a limited space naturally prevents the elaboration of detail. The book, in fact, is an epitome of the information contained in the Imperial and Provincial Gazetteers, and in numberless other official publications.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir.
By Sir James Douie. Pp. xiv + 373. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916.) Price 6s. net.
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The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir . Nature 98, 148 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098148a0
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