Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 pages |
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Page 43
... regard to the other functionaries of the village , there are at least twelve different kinds of village officials under the head - man , each paid by the cultivators in kind according to the value of the services he renders to the ...
... regard to the other functionaries of the village , there are at least twelve different kinds of village officials under the head - man , each paid by the cultivators in kind according to the value of the services he renders to the ...
Page 49
... regard to the impure castes already alluded to as constituting one element of all village communes , it should be noted that although regarded by the Brahmans as impure , their usefulness is not the less recognised . Their services are ...
... regard to the impure castes already alluded to as constituting one element of all village communes , it should be noted that although regarded by the Brahmans as impure , their usefulness is not the less recognised . Their services are ...
Page 50
... regard to the general character of the rural popu- lation of Western India , I may state that an experienced military officer , for some time Surveyor - General of the Bombay Presidency , recorded , about fifty years ago , the ...
... regard to the general character of the rural popu- lation of Western India , I may state that an experienced military officer , for some time Surveyor - General of the Bombay Presidency , recorded , about fifty years ago , the ...
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... regard to the immolation of the faithful wife , commonly called Sutee ( = Sanskrit Sati ) who followed her husband in death , and burned herself on his funeral pile , everywhere in India I saw , scattered about in various places ...
... regard to the immolation of the faithful wife , commonly called Sutee ( = Sanskrit Sati ) who followed her husband in death , and burned herself on his funeral pile , everywhere in India I saw , scattered about in various places ...
Page 87
... regard the elements as symbols of the Deity . Earth , fire , water , he said , ought never , under any circumstances , to be defiled by contact with putrefying flesh . Naked , he said , we came into the world , and naked we ought to ...
... regard the elements as symbols of the Deity . Earth , fire , water , he said , ought never , under any circumstances , to be defiled by contact with putrefying flesh . Naked , he said , we came into the world , and naked we ought to ...
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