The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page xviii
... extend his own views as regards religion and religious worship amongst his fellow - countrymen . In the present day , whilst superstitious ideas have begun to die out of the land , the number of pilgrims to sacred places and shrines has ...
... extend his own views as regards religion and religious worship amongst his fellow - countrymen . In the present day , whilst superstitious ideas have begun to die out of the land , the number of pilgrims to sacred places and shrines has ...
Page xx
... extended to Serampore and Chinsurah , which in those days could only be reached by boats , but which are now within an easy distance by rail . Here it should be remarked that thirty years ago the strongest possible prejudice against ...
... extended to Serampore and Chinsurah , which in those days could only be reached by boats , but which are now within an easy distance by rail . Here it should be remarked that thirty years ago the strongest possible prejudice against ...
Page 17
... extended as far as Jessore , and his whereabouts being never certainly known , he long eluded the search of the police . He was at length betrayed by one of his comrades , surrounded in the hut of his courtesan in the midst of a jungle ...
... extended as far as Jessore , and his whereabouts being never certainly known , he long eluded the search of the police . He was at length betrayed by one of his comrades , surrounded in the hut of his courtesan in the midst of a jungle ...
Page 36
... extended his influence to that remote quarter . But his tenets exercise their greatest influence in Bengal , where they have spread far and wide even up to Assam . Though he may not have succeeded in producing a general re - action in ...
... extended his influence to that remote quarter . But his tenets exercise their greatest influence in Bengal , where they have spread far and wide even up to Assam . Though he may not have succeeded in producing a general re - action in ...
Page 41
... extend commerce , to navigate the seas , to construct railroads , and to communicate from Calcutta to London . Nobody now seeks the literary assistance or the spiritual advice of the Brahmin . He is scoffed at as an empiric , a ...
... extend commerce , to navigate the seas , to construct railroads , and to communicate from Calcutta to London . Nobody now seeks the literary assistance or the spiritual advice of the Brahmin . He is scoffed at as an empiric , a ...
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