cover image: The Indian Eye on English Life Or Rambles of a Pilgrim Performer

Premium

20.500.12592/64rbzz

The Indian Eye on English Life Or Rambles of a Pilgrim Performer

1893

By the end of 1889 I find I have rambled over nearly the whole of the Indian Continent compaing its past with the present and catching a glimesi of the future as afforded by the comparison. [...] Who has not heard of the unconventional cockneyisms of the Parsi the gutturals and cerebra's of the Marathas the feeble hyberboles of the Mussulman ? But these faults are venial when compared with the"14 RAMBLES OF A PILGRIM REFORMER havoc that the average Englishman plays with our vernaculars. [...] They play together on a number of instruments ; and at the end of each air one of the young women steps down the platform a tray in hand and goes the round of the customers present. [...] There is nothing for it in such a case but to leave the guard to " Crocodile." They go on chattering like a pair of monkeys neither of them the wiser or the richer at the end of the journey ; for whilst the guard speaks Italian "Crocodile" keeps firing at him in broken Persian. [...] How pathetic is the sight of one of these girls moving softly like a ghost with a frame so fragile as to be driven by the wind behind with a transparent skin and glassy eyes exhausted by the effort to creep on to the platform and going directly to sleep in the carriage with the delicate little mouth half open as if to allow the breath of life to ebb out without a struggle! It fills me with
history
Pages
238
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141760
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Behramji M. Malabari view
Preface
vi-vi unknown view
Chapter I From Bobay to London
1-26 unknown view
Chapter II In and about London
27-57 unknown view
Chapter III Life as Seen at Home
58-79 unknown view
Chapter IV Life as Seen in Public Affairs
80-138 unknown view
Chapter V Life As Seen in the Streets and Shops
139-192 unknown view
Chapter VI The Continent Reconnoitred
193-i unknown view

Related Topics

All