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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byAlison Kilpatrick
CommentIndex of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past.". by Minden Wilson 1908.

Surname  Wilson    
Forename  Minden J.    
Chapter  Reminiscences of Behar    
Sub-title  Chapter II. Tiger-shooting--Midnight Alarm--Death by Drowning of H-- Holgate    
Page nos.  119-120    
Description  Wilson’s friend, Mr. Holgate, was drowned shortly after returning [from the tiger-shooting party at Sirreepore Kablassa, March 1848]. Holgate was staying with Wilson’s brother [James Wilson] at Kumtoul. Minden Wilson and Holgate borrowed a boat “for the purpose of having a row, but, finding the stream heavy to pull against, and the breeze favourable,” Wilson suggested getting a sheet to improvise a sail, then ran home to his bungalow to get one. Returning to the river, Wilson could not see anything of Holgate. Thinking Holgate had tired of waiting and strolled on, Wilson hoisted the sheet and sailed up the river, expecting to come upon his missing friend. Not doing so, he returned the boat to its owner, and started to search for Holgate on foot, but could see or hear nothing of him. “Three days passed, and then the village-watchman came and gave us the information that the body of a European was floating in the river a little way down, and this was poor H—. We got him out and buried him under a tree to the North-West of the big bungalow on the border of the factory serat.”    
Indexer Notes  (1) A bungalow was a thatched cottage of one floor, or any house standing apart on its own grounds. (2) The author, Minden J. Wilson, may have used the word, serat, to refer to ziráat, which was a cultivated farm or field.    
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Index of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past. History of Behar Light Horse
Volunteers". by Minden Wilson 1908.
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