ABSTRACT
John Dunbar (1805-56) was born in Scotland, the second son of Sir Archibald Dunbar of Northfield. He joined the Bengal civil service in 1822, and spent most of his career in the district of Dhaka, in Bengal, where he occupied administrative positions of increasing seniority in Mymensing, Sherpur and Bhagalpur; in 1846 he was appointed to the revenue commission. The 1835 issue of this title opens with his 'Introductory Sonnet': a tongue-in-cheek welcome of the Orient Pearl as a sign of 'Refinement's march' in the 'benighted land' of India. The same feeling is expressed in the shorter poem 'The Regeneration of India', included; and a similar theme is discernible in many of the works dealing with India.
