Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 pages |
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... living thing seems to enjoy itself , as if it were certain of being unmolested . Natives never willingly destroy life . They cannot enter into an Englishman's desire for venting his high spirits on a fine day by killing game of some ...
... living thing seems to enjoy itself , as if it were certain of being unmolested . Natives never willingly destroy life . They cannot enter into an Englishman's desire for venting his high spirits on a fine day by killing game of some ...
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... living in a collection of little better than mud huts and sheds , whose dilapidated walls looked as if they would revert to their primitive alluvium under the first heavy downpour of rain . All Indian agricultural labour depends on the ...
... living in a collection of little better than mud huts and sheds , whose dilapidated walls looked as if they would revert to their primitive alluvium under the first heavy downpour of rain . All Indian agricultural labour depends on the ...
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... living soul a syllable of what she has told him , he puts on the habit of a pilgrim or religious men- dicant , visits all the celebrated temples dedicated to this god in different parts of India ; and at the annual fair on the Mahadeva ...
... living soul a syllable of what she has told him , he puts on the habit of a pilgrim or religious men- dicant , visits all the celebrated temples dedicated to this god in different parts of India ; and at the annual fair on the Mahadeva ...
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... living death . Lepers are excluded from society , and can find no employment . They often gave themselves up of their own accord to be buried alive , the motive simply being a desire to be released from physical suffering . This burying ...
... living death . Lepers are excluded from society , and can find no employment . They often gave themselves up of their own accord to be buried alive , the motive simply being a desire to be released from physical suffering . This burying ...
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... living death , and they would often cheerfully give themselves up to be burned alive if the law would let them . The spirit of Sati still survives . Their Only the other day in Nepal , where our supremacy is barely recognized , the ...
... living death , and they would often cheerfully give themselves up to be burned alive if the law would let them . The spirit of Sati still survives . Their Only the other day in Nepal , where our supremacy is barely recognized , the ...
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