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C. R.. Arrival of the Governor-General of India at the Lahore railway station, 1864. Creator: C. R..

C. R.. Arrival of the Governor-General of India at the Lahore railway station, 1864. Engraving of a photograph by Messrs. Raybon and West. '...this visit was made an occasion for great festivities...The Punjaub...is the great bulwark of British India...[It] has not only a population of 15,000,000...immediately subject to our rule, but it contains within its borders 7,000,000 of people owning fealty to native chiefs, making the whole population for whose peace and well-being the representatives of Queen Victoria are responsible in the Punjaub nearly the same in number as the inhabitants of Great Britain...The Punjaub Railway is 252 miles in length...[and] constitutes the crown of that great railway system, 2200 miles in length, which will unite Calcutta in the Bay of Bengal with Kurrachee on the Arabian Sea. The Central Railway station...has been built so as to answer in some degree the purposes of a fortress, should the occasion arise, as well as a railway station...it [has] long and massive walls, pierced with loopholes for musketry, flanked by bomb-proof towers and crowned by minarets...Here, in times of danger, the European community could retire, and defend both themselves and the railway against the enemy'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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Arrival of the Governor-General of India at the Lahore railway station, 1864. Creator: C. R..
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Arrival of the Governor-General of India at the Lahore railway station, 1864. Engraving of a photograph by Messrs. Raybon and West. '...this visit was made an occasion for great festivities...The Punjaub...is the great bulwark of British India...[It] has not only a population of 15,000,000...immediately subject to our rule, but it contains within its borders 7,000,000 of people owning fealty to native chiefs, making the whole population for whose peace and well-being the representatives of Queen Victoria are responsible in the Punjaub nearly the same in number as the inhabitants of Great Britain...The Punjaub Railway is 252 miles in length...[and] constitutes the crown of that great railway system, 2200 miles in length, which will unite Calcutta in the Bay of Bengal with Kurrachee on the Arabian Sea. The Central Railway station...has been built so as to answer in some degree the purposes of a fortress, should the occasion arise, as well as a railway station...it [has] long and massive walls, pierced with loopholes for musketry, flanked by bomb-proof towers and crowned by minarets...Here, in times of danger, the European community could retire, and defend both themselves and the railway against the enemy'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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19TH CENTURY 19TH 1ST BARON LAWRENCE ANIMAL ANIMALS ARCHITECTURE ARRIVAL ARRIVE ARRIVING ART ARTS BANNER BLACK & WHITE BLACK AND WHITE BRITAIN BRITISH EMPIRE BRITISH FLAG BRITISH INDIA BRITISH RAJ BRITISH BUILDING C. R. C. CASTLE CAVALIER CENTURY COLOR COLOUR CONCEPT COUNTRY CROWD CROWDS OF PEOPLE CROWDS CROWDS_OF_PEOPLE DEFENCE DEFENCES EMPIRE ENGRAVED ENGRAVING EQUESTRIAN (RIDER) EQUESTRIAN SPORT EQUITATION FLAG FLAGS FORTIFICATION FORTIFICATIONS FORTRESS GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA GOVERNOR GENERAL GOVERNOR GOVERNOR-GENERAL GROUP GUY HINDOOSTAN HORSE RIDING HORSE HORSEMAN HORSEMEN HORSES ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS ILN IMPERIALISM INDIA INDIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS INDIO JOCKEY JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE JOHN LAIRD MAIR JOHN LAWRENCE JOHN LAWRENCE,1ST BARON LAWRENCE JOHN LAHORE LAWRENCE LOCATION LORD LAWRENCE GCB MALE MAN MEN NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPERS NINETEENTH CENTURY PAKISTAN PEOPLE PRESS PRINT COLLECTOR, THE PRINT PUNJAB R. RAILWAY STATION RAILWAY RAILWAYS RAJ RAJ, THE RIDER (MALE) RIDER RIDERS RIDING RIDING, RIDERS SIR JOHN LAWRENCE STANDARD STATION TRAIN STATION TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION UNION FLAG UNION FLAGS UNION JACK UNION JACKS WHITE AND BLACK XIX CENTURY