ABSTRACT

The Great War at first hardly affected the world of Anglo-India, and business as usual remained the prevailing principle throughout its course. For one thing Anglo-Indians had always lived in an atmosphere of greater familiarity with things military than people in England; and to the majority of Anglo-Indians who never went on leave during the war its gravity and the privations of the civilian populations of Europe were hardly imaginable. The Germans were not unpopular with Anglo-Indians. In consequence, when people wanted a holiday they would go to one or other of the Indian hill-stations or to the increasingly popular Kashmir. Climbing and fishing have continued to be the main resources of Kashmir. The wilder pleasure-grounds were not the only attractions that a rapidly progressing Kashmir had to offer Anglo-Indians on holiday. An admirable hotel in Srinagar with comfortable bedrooms, and in the lounge probably more paintings of ducks than any other room in the world.