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... WOMEN · 375 TULLAH PARSEE WOMEN 385 391 • By ZULIRKA SORALJI CAVALIER . INDIAN LITERATURE By Miss C. S. HUGHES . - CEYLON 421 By L. B. CLARENCE ( late Judge of the Ceylon Supreme Judge Court ) . STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 449 By Lieutenant ...
... WOMEN · 375 TULLAH PARSEE WOMEN 385 391 • By ZULIRKA SORALJI CAVALIER . INDIAN LITERATURE By Miss C. S. HUGHES . - CEYLON 421 By L. B. CLARENCE ( late Judge of the Ceylon Supreme Judge Court ) . STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 449 By Lieutenant ...
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... women . Behind will be found a pot of the sacred Basil or other remnant of a primitive form of worship . Wayfarers will see outside every village some token of the worship of the lower classes , protective of the community at large ...
... women . Behind will be found a pot of the sacred Basil or other remnant of a primitive form of worship . Wayfarers will see outside every village some token of the worship of the lower classes , protective of the community at large ...
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... women are continually bringing their ornaments to be made up into different patterns . Where gold or silver are not ... woman , as a ring must be worn on the finger in our own country , and the armlet put on at betrothal is broken at the ...
... women are continually bringing their ornaments to be made up into different patterns . Where gold or silver are not ... woman , as a ring must be worn on the finger in our own country , and the armlet put on at betrothal is broken at the ...
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... women respectively ( for the sexes do not employ the same person ) , and the man who shaves the superfluous hair off the young buffaloes , so the water - bearer may be the man of caste , who fills only metal and earthen vessels , or the ...
... women respectively ( for the sexes do not employ the same person ) , and the man who shaves the superfluous hair off the young buffaloes , so the water - bearer may be the man of caste , who fills only metal and earthen vessels , or the ...
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... women , the restric- tions upon freedom of action being far greater in the higher classes . The first manifestation , therefore , of a rise in material prosperity on the part of a family of middle rank is that the women , who were ...
... women , the restric- tions upon freedom of action being far greater in the higher classes . The first manifestation , therefore , of a rise in material prosperity on the part of a family of middle rank is that the women , who were ...
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