Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier
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Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier

Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier is the 1878 memoir of James Inglis (1845-1908), a Scot who managed indigo plantations in northern Bihar along the Nepal border before a later career in Australian politics and commerce. Writing as Maori, he describes planting life, tiger and pig-sticking expeditions, floods, famines, and the village world of the Terai with a working resident’s knowledge. The book is a standard source for the indigo era of British India. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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James Inglis

James Inglis combined writing, commerce, and public office in a Scottish-born career that took him from India to colonial Australia. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier records his years managing an indigo concern in northern Bihar, close to the borderlands then commonly described in…

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