Part 9 (2/2)

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A Holy Man of Benares Under His Umbrella. Each of the Fakers at Benares Has His Own Clientage, But No One Bathes Without Yielding Tribute to Some Holy Man]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLATE XLVI

The Residency at Lucknow. This, the Most Impressive Relic of the British Mutiny In India, Is Now Only a Beautiful Ruin, But it Recalls the Heroic Defense Made By a Handful of English Against Hundreds Of Natives. In Front Is a Memorial Erected by Lord Northbrook to Loyal Native Soldiers]

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Tomb of Itmad-ul-Daulet at Agra. This Tomb Was Erected in Honor of the Prime Minister of the Emperor Jahangir. It Is of Carved and Inlaid Marble and Overlooks the Jumna River]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLATE XLVIII

The Mutiny Memorial at Cawnpore. This Memorial Was Erected Over the Well Into Which Were Thrown the Bodies of One Hundred and Twenty-Five English Women and Children, Butchered By Order of the Nana Sahib]

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Detail of Carving in the Jasmine Tower, Agra.

This View Gives a Good Idea of the Wonderful Work in Marble Carving and the Inlaying of Precious Stones, Which Makes This Little Pavilion a Rival of the Taj]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLATE L

The Jasmine Tower In Agra Fort. This Is a Marble Pavilion, the Home of the Chief Sultana, Overlooking the Jumna River. The Lattice Work Decoration In Marble Is Remarkably Beautiful]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLATE LI

Snap-shot of a Jain Family at Agra. Mr.

Upham's Camera Caught This Woman as She Peeked From Behind the Curtain of the Ekka, or Native Cart]

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The Fort at Agra Which Encloses Many Palaces. This Fort Has a Circuit of Over a Mile, With Two Octagonal Towers of Red Sandstone.

Enclosed are Mosques and Palaces Which Rival the Taj In Beauty of Design and Richness of Ornamentation]

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Kutab Minar, the Arch and the Iron Pillar, near Delhi.

The Arch Formed Part of a Mosque built by Kutab, a Viceroy, in 1193 A. D. The Pillar Stood in the Mosque and is of Wrought Iron, Twenty-three Feet High. The Monument is Two Hundred and Thirty-eight Feet High With Three Hundred and Seventy-nine Steps]

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Shah Jehan's Heaven on Earth, Delhi.

The Diwan-i-Khas, or Hall of Private Audience, Is One of the Most Richly Decorated Buildings In India. The Ceiling Was Originally Silver.

Over the Two Outer Arches Is the Persian Inscription: ”If Heaven can be on the face of the earth, It is this, oh! it is this, oh! it is this”]

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