This book provides a glimpse of colonial India during the so-called high noon of the Raj. Reprinted from holdings of the National Archives of India, it is a series of reminiscences and anecdotes of a Civil Engineer between 1874 and 1902. It covers his impressions of and experiences in places as far apart as Punjab and Hyderabad, including his understanding of the customs, languages, religions and belief-systems of the varied peoples of the Indian subcontinent.