by Miles Taylor
Arthat, Kesarisinha Shokanjalii, Shirmati Paramapratapi Jagatpujya Shri Bharateshvari Maharani Vikitoriya ke Dukhada Svargavas par Shokodgar, or Verses Lamenting the Death of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Bombay: the author, 1903)
Shukla, Cheda Lal (ed.), Santi Siromani/The Head Jewel of Peace (Kanpur: the author, 1908)
Kanarese
Kardguddi, Fakirappa Basappa, Chaupadia (Dharwad: Dnyan Vardhak Press, 1887)
Malayalam
Manavikraman, K. C. Rajah, A Short Biographical Sketch of the Queen Empress Victoria (Madras: Graves, Cookson & Co., 1887)
Maman, Reverend O., A Brief Account of the Life of our Beloved Empress (Madras: Vidya Vilsam Press, 1887)
Pillai, C. E. Govinda, A Short Biographical Sketch of the Queen Empress Victoria (Calicut: P. C. Achutan, 1890)
Chandran, Reverend St, The Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Mangalore: Basel Mission, 1897)
Marathi
Pitale, Ganpatarava Moroba, Ranice pustaka, mhanaje, Maharani Viktoriya hyanca Hailanda prantantia rahivasa: va Skatalanda, Inglanda va Airlanda hya desantila saphari ani galabatanta basuna keleli paryatane hyanca vrttanta/Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands (Bombay: Education Society’s Press, 1871), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, (IND) Mar Vic 1
Sangle, Reverend A. M., Maharanichen Charitra, or the Life of the Queen-Empress (Bombay: Education Society’s Press, 1887)
Tilak, Pandurang Vaman, Sangita Ranyutsava Prakash; or, the Festival of the Queen Empress in Musical Verse (Bombay: the author, 1887)
Joshi, Purushottam Balkrishna, Viktoria Mahotsava, or Verses in Commemoration of the Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s Reign (Bombay: the author, 1887)
Gunjikar, Ganesh Bhikaji, Viktoria Maharanichen Charitra, or Life of Empress Victoria (Bombay: Govind Moroba Karlenkar, 1888)
Phadke, Narayan Laxman, Ranichya Rajyacha Itihas, or History of the Reign of Queen Victoria (Poona: Balvant Ganesh Dabholkar, 1902)
‘One Member of the Hindu Union Club’, Victoriya Maharanichen Charitra, or a Life of Queen Victoria (Bombay: Nadkarni & Mandali, 1905)
Oriya
Banerji, Kalipada, Biktoriya Rajsuya/The Imperial Assemblage (Cuttack: Orissa Patriot Press, 1884)
Kanungo, Basudeva, Bhikitoriya. Victoria (Cuttack: Cuttack Printing Co., 1897)
Rao, Madhusudan, Mahadebi Bhiktoria/The Great Goddess Victoria (Cuttack: Utkal Sahitya Press, 1901), British Library 14121.f.25(1)
Persian
Anon., Persian Poems in Praise of the Auspicious New Year’s Day of the Parsis, the Queen Empress, etc. (Bombay: Education Society, 1881)
Bamanji, Dosabhai, An Address of Loyalty in Persian Verse, with its English Translation to Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen Empress Victoria, in Celebration of the Official Jubilee in Honor of her Fiftieth Year on the British Throne (Bombay: Bombay Education Society, 1887), British Library 14773.a.14
Bamanji Dosabhai, Tavsife Malikae Inglistan va Kaisare Hinustan Viktoria. Or Praises of Her Imperial Majesty Victoria, the Queen of England and Empress of India (Bombay: the author, 1887), British Library Or. 14547
Durgaprasad, Kunwar, Gulistan-i-Hind/The Rose Garden of India (Lucknow: Legal Press, 1889)
Punjabi
Singh, Bhai Aya, Jubilee prakash athwa Sri Bhartesuri da sankhep samachar (Lahore: Muifid-i-Am Press, 1889)
Nath, Lala Gopi, Siharfi (Ludhiana: the author, 1912)
Sanskrit
Harischandra, Bhartendu, Offering of Flowers to the Duke of Edinburgh (Benares, n. p., 1870), University of Edinburgh Library Special Collections Ys.10.8/3
Tagore, Sourindro Mohun, Fifty Stanzas in Sanskrit, in Honor of HRH the Prince of Wales, Composed and Set to Music (Calcutta: n. p., 1875), British Library 14053.cc.7.(2)
Tagore, Sourindro Mohun, Victoria-gitika, or Sanskrit Verses Celebrating the Deeds and the Virtues of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria and her Renowned Predecessors, Composed and Set to Music (Calcutta: I. C. Bose, 1875), British Library 14053.cc.7.(1)
Tagore, Sourindro Mohun, Victoria Samrajyan, or Sanskrit Stanzas: On the Various Dependencies of the British Crown, Each Composed and Set to the Respective National Music, in Commemoration of the Assumption by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen Victoria of the Diadem, Indiae Imperatrix (Calcutta: I. C. Bose, 1876; 2nd edn 1882), British Library 14053.cc.51
Bhattacarya, Taranatha Tarkavacaspati, Rajaprasastih (Calcutta: Sarasvatiyantra, 1876), Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago PK3799.B487.R3 1876
Ramapati, Sri, Shri Victoriamarahrayas/Verses in Praise of Queen Victoria (Benares: Channu Lal, 1876)
Churamani, Pandit Ramkrishna Bhattacharyya, Rajvarnan; or, a Description of Royalty (Bankipur: Sadhoram Bhatta, 1878)
Nyayaratna, Benimadhaba, Bharateswari Kabyam. Empress of India (Calcutta: the author, 1879), SV412/8 vol. 3
Ghose, Loke-Nath, The Victoria Jubilee Upasana or Prayers in Sanskrit Verse . . . on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Reign . . . of Queen Victoria, with a Hymn Set to Hindu Music and the National Anthem in English and its Translation in Sanskrit by Professor Max Müller (Calcutta: the author, 1887), British Library 14033.c.37
Shastri, Pandit Vaijanath, Victoria-Prashasti; or a Eulogium on Victoria (Poona: Bhaskar Narayan Godbole, 1892)
Sharma, Lalachandra, Jubilee Pramodika (Bombay: n. p., 1889), British Library 14072.ddd.2
Tagore, Sourindro Mohun, Brief Description of the Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen Empress in Sanskrit Poems (Calcutta: I. C. Bose, 1892), British Library 14053.e.25(2)
Pincott, Frederic, Rajarajesvari Maharani Viktoriya Kaisara-i-Hinda ka jivanacarita/Life of Empress Victoria (Bankipur: Prasad Sinha, 1895), Widener Library, Harvard University IndL 2422.2
Chandra, Krishna, Priti Kusumanjali. An Offering of a Handful of Flowers of Devotion (Benares: Freeman & Co., 1897)
Sarma, Jaynarayan (comp.), Vijayini Kirtimala (Bankipur: Sahib Prasad Sinha, 1897)
Joshi, P. B., Victoria-mahotsava; or, Verses in Commemoration of the Diamond jubilee of Her Majesty’s Reign (Bombay: Tatva-vivechaka Press, 1897), British Library 14140.a.45(1)
Tagore, Sourindro Mohun, Srimad-Victoria-Mahatmyam, the Greatness of the Empress Victoria: A Sanskrit Poem, Set to Music, with an English Translation, and 63 Illustrations Descriptive of 60 Years of Her Majesty’s Sovereignty, etc. (London: Cassel & Co., 1897), British Library 14706.e.4
Naramsimhacharya, Victoriyaprasastih, or Praise of Queen Victoria (Bombay: Laxmi Venkateshwar Press, 1898), Library of Congress, Washington DC microfiche 99/61026 (P)
Sindhi
Vadhvani, Nirbdas Naraindas, Jamma Saki Maharani Saheb Victoria Kaisar-e-Hind, or the Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Karachi: Sind Gazette & Commercial Press, 1900; 2nd edn 1912)
Tamil
Cupparaya Mutaliyar, Tantalam, Mararasritiyuk Alpart perilum irajakkal perilum alankarakkommi (Madras: T. Cupparaya Mutaliyar, 1870), British Library Tam.A.93(e)
Jiyar, Cesattiri Aiyankar Kulattur, Marara sri araci irantam puttirarakiya Alpart, tiyuk av Et inparo Intiyavaik kanavanta vicittiraccopanappattu (Madras: the author, 1870), British Library pTam.B.2805
Iyengar, C. G. Psashathree, Shopanapattu (Madras: Vurthamanatharunginee Press, 1870)
Baboo, T., The Queen (Vepery: Fister Press, 1873)
Chetti, P. A. Michaelsawmi, The Royal Messenger (Madras: Memorial Press, 1876)
Chariar, Krishnama V., A Jubilee Sketch of the Queen-Empress and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets (Madras: SPCK Press, 1887)
Anon., The Queen-Empress of India and her Family (Madras: CVE Society, 1888)
Rau, M. R. Krishna, Srimat Victoria Vijayam, or the Life and Reign of Queen Victoria (Trichinopoly: V. A. Saminada Pillai, 1889)
Chariar, Krishnama V., A Glorious Reign of Sixty Years (Madras: the author, 1897)
Aiyar, S. Muttu, and Aiyar, C. V. Swaminada, Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Madras: the authors, 1
898), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (IND) 18.A.1
Anon., A Brief Life of the Queen Empress (Madras: Christian Literature Society, SPCK Press, 1901)
Duraisami, K. C., The True Victorian Glory (Madras: Thompson & Co., 1901), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (IND) 18.B.27
Mudali, Munisami, Life of Empress Victoria in Kummi Song (Madras: the author, 1901)
Reddiar, Vidhvan Periya, The Maharani Ammanei (Madras: Ramalinga Swami, 1901), British Library 14172.b.7
Chettiar, P. M. Swami, Viktoriya Makaraniyaravarkal/The Victoria Memorial (Madras: City Press, 1901), British Library 14171.a.47
Pillai, Cankaralinkam, A., Viktoriya makaran.iyin carittiram (Madras: Kumaracami Nayutu Sans, 1912), British Library pTam.B.791
Telugu
Dass, Polluri Mutyal, Chamra Vadeyaravri Cheritramu (Bangalore: Vicara Darpana Press, 1876)
Pantulu, Kokkonda Venkataratnamu, The Empress of India: Nine Gems (Madras: C. Foster & Co., 1876), British Library 14174.i.8
Baboo, T., The Queen (Madras: Frees Church Mission House, 1876)
Baboo, Rev. R. M., Yuvaraju; or, the Heir Apparent (Madras: Sattiadipam Press, 1876)
Chariar, V. Krishnama, A Jubilee Sketch of the Queen-Empress and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets (Madras: SPCK Press, 1887)
Anon., The Queen-Empress of India and her Family (Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1893)
Adinarayanappa, C., Vitandavada Madavedanda Kantiravamu (Rajahmundry: the author, 1893)
Viresalingam, Kandukuri, Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Rajahmundry: Vivekavardhani Press, 1897), British Library 14174.g.42(2)
Panditulu, D. Srirama, Victoria Dwatrimsanmanjari (Bezwada (Vijayawada): D. Vishnu Rao, 1898)
Brahmaiya, K., Victoria Vilasamu (Cocanada: the author, 1898)
Nissanka, Raja M., Gita Padya Nakshatramalika (Vizagapatam: Arsha Press, 1900)
Srinivasacharlu, P., Kanakangi (Madras: the author, 1900)
Sarvarayadu, S., Life of Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, the Good Late Sovereign of India (Coconada: Sujanaranjani Press, 1901)
Bhujanga, Raja M., Vasantakusuman, or the Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty (Ellore: Manjuvani, 1902, 2nd edn 1908), British Library 14174.f.17(3)
Atchamamba, G., Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria the Great (Coconada: Sujanaranjani Press, 1904)
Sastri, D. Suryanarayana, and Sastri, C. Sundrarama (eds), Vasantakusumamu, Being a Poem Relating to the Life of Queen Victoria (Madras: Royal Victoria Press, 1908)
Dorasami, Aiya, Viktoriya Maharjni caritramu/The Life of Queen Victoria (Madras: C. Coomarasawmy Naidu & Sons, 1912), British Library Tel.B.388
Urdu
Gafur, Abdul, Muraqqa-i-Salatin, Hissa-i-awwal-i-Asar-ul-Mutaakhkirin/The Gallery of Princes (Delhi: Murari Lal’s Press, 1875)
Nath, Bishambhar, Tuzuk-i Jarmani (Lucknow: Nawal Kishore Press, 1876), Rampur Raza Library, Rampur
Sahai, Ram, Gulgasht-i-Bagh-i-Lucknow, a Description of the Visit to Lucknow of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Lucknow: Tamannai Press, 1876), Rampur Raza Library, Rampur
Karim, Abdul, Quasidah-i-talimiyat; or, Benedictory Verses (Patna: Sayad Fazal Karim, 1877)
Mubin, Muhammad, Guidasta-i-Jashan Qaisarya, the Bouquet of the Imperial Assembly (Fatehgarh: the author, 1877)
Khan, Abdur Rashid, Guldasta-i-Rashid. The Bouquet (Aligarh: Muhammed Muniruddin, 1878)
Mehr, Mirza Hatim Ali Beg, I’d Qaisarya 1878. The Imperial Festival (Agra: the author, 1878)
Das, Bulaqi, Tawarikh-i-Jalsa-i-Shahanshahi/History of the Imperial Assemblage (Delhi: Muir Press, 1884)
Chand, Faqir, Tazkira-i-Malika-Victoria-i-Qaisar-i-Hind (Life of Queen Victoria Empress of India) (Delhi: Muhibb-i-Hind Press, 1885)
Lal, Umrao Raja (trans.), Sawanih-i-Umri-i-Hazur Malika-i-Qaisar-i-Hind/An Account of the Life of Her Majesty the Empress of India (Delhi: Anwar-i-Muhammedi Press, 1887)
Azimabadi, Shad, Navid-i Hind (Patna: Subh-i Sadiq Press, 1887), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (IND)16.c.62
Karim, Abdul, Tuhfa-i-Jubilee, or the Jubilee Present (Bombay: the author, 1887)
Ram, Mukand (ed.), Akhbar-i-am (Lahore: Matba Mitra Vilasa, 1888), Lane Medical Library, Stanford University
Das, Bulaqi, Tarikh-i-Jubilee/History of the Jubilee of Her Imperial Majesty the Queen-Empress (Delhi: Muir Press, 1888)
Ali, Bunyad, Yadgar-i-jubilee Musamma, ba Talim-un-Niswan/Memorial of the Jubilee, Known as Female Instruction (Agra: the author, 1888)
Alam, Mahbub, Zikr-i-Mamduh/The Life of Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Gujranwala: Punjab Press 1888; 2nd edn 1892)
Iman, Imdad, Hadya-e-Qi Sarya. A Present to the Empress (Arrah: the author, 1889)
Forbes, A. (comp.), Dilchasp-i-Halat-i-Shahzadah Victor Jo Hazur Kaiser Hind ke Pote/Prince Victor, Grandson of the Empress of India (Lucknow: the author, 1891)
Alam, Munshi Mabub, Zikr-i-Mamduh (Lahore: Khadim-ut-Talim Punjab Press, 1894)
Ahmad, Faizuddin, Jubilee Malka Victoria Qaisari-i-Hind/Jubilee of Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Kanpur: Rahmat Ullah, 1896)
Razaq, Abdul, Ain-i-Qaisari/Regulations of the Empress (Lucknow: Gulab Singh Press, 1897)
Das, Lala Hal Saran, Alakh Raj/The Limitless Empire of the Queen Empress (Lahore: Muir Press, 1897)
Abdulghani, Mirza Muhammad, Hayati-i-Victoria al mulaqqab ba Shahanshah Nama (Lahore: Islamia Press, 1897), University of Pennsylvania Library DA55.A87.1897
Mahapatra, Srikrishna, Maharani. The Empress (Cuttack: Cuttack Printing Co., 1901)
Firozeuddin, Maulvi, Yadgar-i-Victoria ya’ni Malika Victoria ki mufassal Sawanih ’Umri aur unkeahad-i-hukumat ki mujmal tarikh (Lahore: Sadaihind Press, 1901)
Iftikhar-ud-Din, Fakir Saiyid, Hayat-i-Malika (Lahore: Muifid-i-Am Press, 1901)
Ahmad, Bashiruddin, Hayat-i-Qaisarah: yani Aliya hazrat Malikah-yi Muazzamahkuin Viktoriyah Qaisarah-i-Hind ki muktasar savnih umri (Delhi: Matba Mujtabai, 1901), University of Pennsylvania Library, DA554.A37.1901
Zakaullah, Muhammad, Savanih umri Hazrat Malikah-i-muazzimah Malkisifat Qaisar-i-Hind va alijanab Prins Kunsurt Alba (Delhi: Shamsu Matabi, 1904), Centre for Research Libraries, University of Chicago, MF–11324.r282/e
Sime, J. (trans. Lala Rej Ram), Malka-i-Muazzuma Victoria ke Halat-i-Zindgi (Lahore: Mufid-i-’Am Press, 1907)
Ali, Rahmat, Wafa-i-Rahmat (Lahore: Islamia Press, 1910)
Lal, Dori, Sar Guzasht-i-Victoria/Life of Queen Victoria (Saharanpur: Joti Prashad, 1912), British Library VT.3948B
NOTES
Introduction
1. Journal entry, 21 June 1872 in Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd ser., ii, 218–19; Colonel Ponsonby to Earl Granville, 26 January 1873, ibid., 238–9; Duke of Argyll to Ponsonby, 1 February 1873, ibid., 242. For the visit of the Burmese envoys, see: L. E. Bagshawe (ed.), The Kinwun Min-Gyi’s London diary (Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2006).
2. Carnarvon to Ponsonby, 24 February 1876, RA VIC/MAIN/F/16/22; Ponsonby to Queen Victoria, 17 March 1876, ibid., fols 65–6; Disraeli to Queen Victoria, 23 March 1876, RA VIC/MAIN/F/16/78; Revd Mr Farrer, ‘Translation’ (c. 23 March 1876), RA VIC/MAIN/F/16/83.
3. L. J. Trotter, History of India under Queen Victoria, 1836–86 (London: W. H. Allen, 1886); Edwin Arnold, Victoria. Queen and Empress. The Sixty Years (London: Longmans, 1896), 70–7; W. W. Hunter, The India of the Queen, and Other Essays (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903), ed. Lady Hunter, ch. 1; Romesh Dutt, The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age (London: Kegan Paul & Co., 1906); S. Satyamurty, Modern India (Down to the Death of the Queen Empress) (Madras, n.p., 1909); Richard Temple, Sixty Years of the Queen’s Reign: An Epoch of Empire Making (London: Geo. Routledge, 1897), ch. 2.
4. P. E. Roberts, History of British India: Under the Company and the Crown (1921); Herbert A. Stark, India under Company and Crown: Being an Account of its Progress and Present (1922); A. B. Keith, A Constitutional History of India, 1600–1935 (1936); Joachim von Kürenberg, Die Kaiserin von In
dien: lebensgeschicte der Königin Victoria von England (Hamburg: Robert Möglich: 1947).
5. Mary Ann Steegles, Statues of the Raj (London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 2000), 178–214; Jan Morris (with Simon Winchester), Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 edn), 182–5; Maria Misra, ‘From Nehruvian Neglect to Bollywood Heroes: The Memory of the Raj in Post-war India’ in Dominik Geppert and Frank-Lorenz Muller (eds), Sites of Imperial Memory: Commemorating Colonial Rule in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), 187–206.
6. Steegles, Statues of the Raj, 178, 207; Philippa Vaughan (ed.), The Victoria Memorial Hall: Conceptions, Collections, Conservation (Mumbai: Marg, 1997).
7. An account of the Memorials to Queen Victoria Erected in the North-Western Provinces of India (Agra: n.p., 1905); W. S. Meyer, W.E.A. Armstrong, R.S. Burns and E.H.S. Clarke (eds), The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 26 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909–31); Somerset Playne (comp.), Indian States. A Biographical, Historical and Administrative Survey (1922; repr. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 2006).
8. See the Appendix.
9. Anindita Ghosh, Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778–1905 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006); Francesca Orsini, Print and Pleasure: Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2009); Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); A. R. Venkatachalapathy, The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2012).
10. C. A. Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, c. 1780–1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 343–4. Reports of native newspapers were made for each presidency from 1868. Quarterly lists of all publications were printed as supplements to the official government gazettes (IOR SV412).
11. Mushirul Hasan, ‘Sharif Culture and Colonial Rule: A “Maulvi”-Missionary Encounter’ in Mushirul Hasan and Asim Roy (eds), Living Together Separately: Cultural India in History and Politics (2006), 320–53; T. G. Bailey, A History of Urdu Literature (1928; repr. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2008).
