Attempts have been made, with
partial success, to provide special boarding schools, or 'Chiefs'
Colleges', for the sons of ruling princes and native nobles. The most
notable of such institution are the colleges at Ajmer, Rajkot in
Kathiawar, and Indore. The influence of the zanana is invariably
directed against every proposal to remove a young nobleman from home
for the purpose of education, and obstacles of many kinds render the
task of rightly educating such a youth extraordinarily difficult and
unsatisfactory. In some cases a considerable degree of success has
been attained.
7. Armed follower. The word is more familiar in the corrupt form
'sepoy'.
CHAPTER 35
Gwalior Plain once the Bed of a Lake--Tameness of Peacocks.
On the 19th, 20th, and 21st[1] we came on forty miles to the village
of Antri in the Gwalior territory, over a fine plain of rich alluvial
soil under spring crops. This plain bears manifest signs of having
been at no very remote period, like the kingdom of Bohemia, the bed
of a vast lake bounded by the ranges of sandstone hills which now
seem to skirt the horizon all round; and studded with innumerable
islands of all shapes and sizes, which now rise abruptly in all
directions out of the cultivated plain.
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