This volume focuses mainly on Hume's years in district administration in the north-western provinces, now part of the state of Uttar Pradesh. Hume was immersed in this region for seventeen years, eleven of which were spent in one district, Etawah, where he was magistrate and collector from early 1856 to the spring of 1867, except for two years (1861-3) of sick leave in Britain. He lived through the thick of the rebellion of 1857-9, blamed the outbreak on ...
