ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 



WAS HELD IN THE EOOMS OF THE INSTITUTE ON 

 MONDAY, JANUARY 16th, 1905. 



General Halliday in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following candidates were elected : — 



Life Associate : — Eev. Oswald J. Hogarth, M.A., Rondebosch, 

 S. Africa. 



Associates : — Rev. Joseph Lampe, D.D., Professor, Presbyterian 

 Theological College, Omaha, U.S.A. ; H. Neville Harris, Esq., India 

 Civil Service (retired) ; Rev. D. Arnstrom, Aneby, Sweden. 



The following paper was then read by the author : — 



THE RAJPUTS AND THE HISTORY OF RAJ PUT ANA. 

 By Colonel T. Holbein Hendley, CLE., Indian Medical 

 Service (retired). 



THE Rajputs have attracted so much interest in India, that 

 no fewer than 177 separate works upon them and their 

 •country are included in the Bibliography which is attached to 

 the Medical Gazetteer of Rajputana alone, yet even in some of 

 our principal encyclopaedias only portions of a column of print 

 are directly devoted to the subject. The Bajputs, or sons of 

 Icings, and the land of Rajputana, or Rajasthan, as it is more 

 classically termed, the chief seat of their power, cannot, there- 

 fore, be adequately studied in a single address, so that I propose, 

 after giving some account of the people and of their country, to 

 consider, as being more properly fitted for discussion by this 

 Society, the causes which led to the establishment of a most 

 interesting race, for more than a thousand years in the same 

 region, during which period they flourished with little real 

 disturbance by the paramount powers of India, which changed 

 no fewer than at least seven times in the same millennium. 

 Valuable lessons may be learned from the study of the history, 

 customs, and peculiarities of such a noble, manly, and interesting 



