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The Calcutta Review July 1902

1902

An --unwilling sheep was pushed into the ring and the Giant after much struggling tossed the animal bodily over his head with a dexterous fling that convinced most of the onlookers that he had really performed the feat with his teeth ! Such was the Kama Mystery as the writer saw it in the spring of the last year of the century. [...] Such was the opinion with regard to the disposal of the prisoner of the Commander-in-Chief recorded May 3 on the back of the letter of the Deputy Commissioner dated April 28 1858. [...] In support of the first they repeat a saying to the effect that in the South people marry the daughter of their maternal uncle; in the West people drink water kept in leather-bags (such as the Marwaris) in the North people eat the flesh of buffaloes (Cashmerees) ; and in the East people eat fish (Bengalis and Ooriyas). [...] t The Eigvedis and the Aswalayanis are one and the same they intermarry with the Apastambas and dine with them as well as with the Kanawas and the Madhandins but they do not intermarry with the Kanawas and the Madhandins.22 HINDU CASTES AMONGST TIIE MAHRATTAS. [...] They make for the agriculturists their iron plough-heads called kasha and other iron implements such as the pass the edia the intia the khant the pavada the kudal the kasalia and the instrument of daily use the axe.
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Pages
208
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art I.—The Kama Mystery a Study in Comparative Dramatics
1-9 Sydney Roberts view
Art II.—Across the Peloponnesus
10-15 unknown view
Art III.—A Judicial Trial During the Indian Mutinies 1858
16-18 unknown view
Art IV.—Brahmabaibartta Puran on Diseases
19-20 unknown view
Art V.—Hindu Castes Amongst The Maihrattas
21-28 R.B. view
Art VI.—Legends of St. Thomas in South India
29-32 E.H. Brookes view
Art VII.—The Sakta Religion and the Female sex
33-60 K.S. Macdonald view
Art VIII.—The Suppression of Human Sacrifices Among the Khonds
61-66 Benigum Rau view
Art IX.—Vernacular Literature in the North-West Provinces
67-75 unknown view
Art X.—Famines in India
76-100 V.M. Samarth view
Art XI.—The Remarriage of Hindu Widows
101-117 unknown view
The Quarter
118-205 unknown view
Acknowledgments
206-206 unknown view

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