With our imagination tethered to the hard-rock fact that man has developed from a savage to a Plato and a Shakespeare, from the inventor of the stone-axe to the inventor of telegraphy in the paltry quarter million years of his existence, may we not safely give it rope to wander out into the boundless future? We are still but children. We may be only as young bees, crawling over the combs of a hive, who have not yet found their wings to fly out into the sun-lit world beyond. Even now we suspect ourselves of possessing wing-like faculties of the mind whose use we do not know, and to which we are as yet afraid to trust. But the period of our infancy is over. The time to let ourselves go is approaching. Should we not look confidently out into the future and nerve ourselves for bold, unfettered flight?
And may we not still further hope that in the many million years the earth may yet exist we may master the depressing fate which lies before us when the sun's heat is expended; and look forward to evolving from ourselves beings of a higher order who will be independent of the used-up planet which gave them birth, and may be swarm away to some far, other sun-lit home?
Amar Singh, Raja Sir, 68, 69, 118, 184, 215
Apricots, 96, 176, 199, 202 trees, 19, 36, 158
Asoka, the Buddhist king, 33, 75, 138, 139, 140
Baltistan, 3, 50, 61, 109, 120, 121, 164, 184, 232 Governor of, 50
Baramula, 5, 6, 57, 69, 104, 124, 146, 183, 206, 231, 232, 241 Road, 84
British Government, 168, 169, 170, 173, 182, 183, 184, 210 troops, 167 Indian troops, 167 Resident, 183 territory, 167
Burrard, Colonel, 234, 236, 238, 240, 242, 246, 250
Chenar, trees, 6, 19, 20, 23, 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 36, 37, 43, 60, 65, 66, 70, 76, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 92, 97, 112, 116, 208, 209 foliage, 24
Cotton, 202, 205 cloth, 216 piece-goods, 219
Customs, the (source of revenue), 184, 187
Dachigam stream, 26, 123, 124 valley, 27, 79
Dal Lake, 20, 28, 29, 32, 59, 74, 75, 79, 81, 82, 132, 141, 159, 198, 203, 209
Decentralisation, Royal Commission on, 46
Deodar forest, 116, 206 trees, 71, 206, 226
Gulab Singh, Raja, 160, 162, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 177
Gulmarg, 12, 17, 34, 98, 109, 114, 206, 241, 249, 260 Residency at, 98, 104