Modern India and the Indians : being a series of impressions, notes, and essays
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Modern India and the Indians : being a series of impressions, notes, and essays
（Trübner's Oriental series, 44 . India : history,
Routledge, 2000, c1891
[Reprinted ed. of 5th ed]
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Includes index
"First published in 1891 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner. Reprinted in 2000 by Routledge" -- T.p. verso
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This is Volume VIII of eleven in a series on India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1891, this includes a impressions, notes and essays on the modern India of the time including the five gates of India- Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim and Aden and looking at Indian famines, religion, travel accounts of North and Southern India and funeral ceremonies.
Table of Contents
- The Five Gates of India-Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim, and Aden
- First Impressions
- The Villages and Rural Population of India
- Sam?dh, Sacrifice, Self-immolation, and Self-Torture
- The Towers of Silence, and the P?rs? Religion
- Funeral Ceremonies and Offerings to Ancestors at Bombay, Benares, and Gay?
- Indian Rosaries
- Indian Famines
- A Relief Camp
- General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Northern India
- General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Southern India
- Indian and European Civilization in their relation to each other and in their effect on the Progress of Christianity
- Indian Muhammadanism in its relation to Christianity, and the prospects of Missionary Enterprise towards it
- The Three Religions of India compared with each other and with Christianity
- Progress of our Indian Empire. Part I. Progress of our Indian Empire. Part II. Promotion of Goodwill and Sympathy between England and India.
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