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The Hindoos As They Are. A Description of the Manners Customs and Inner Life of Hindu Society in Bengal

1883

The gradual consolidation of the British power having estalished on a firm basis the security of life and property the peoplesare beginning to avail themselves of an improved mode. of habitation affording better accommodation and a wider range of the comforts and conveniences of life. [...] Before the ' propagation of the religion of Christ said I the most admired form of goodness wiz centred in patriotism or the love of one's. own country but Jesus brought with hiin a new era of philanthropy the main pervading princ.iple of which is a spirit of martyrdom in the cause of mankind. [...] The choiceA part of the food is offered in the first instance to the males and the residue is kept for the femalq. [...] When that excelleht prelate Heber travelled in a boat on the sacred stream of the Ganges and saw large crowds of Hindoo females engaged in washing themselves and their clothes on both sides of the river at the rising and setting of the sun he most emphatically remarked that cleanness was the supreme virtue of Hindoo women: In the Upper Brovinces at all seasons of the year hundreds of women [...] On the sixth day the image of the goddess Sha stIci is woshipped in front of the room where the child was horn bicause she is the prOtItress of all childfen.
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Pages
365
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142600
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii Shib Bose view
I The Hindu Household
1-21 unknown view
II The Birth of a Hindoo
22-29 unknown view
III The Hindoo School Boy
30-34 unknown view
IV Vows of Hindoo Girls
35-39 unknown view
V Marriage Ceremonies
40-86 unknown view
VI The Brother Festival
87-88 unknown view
VII The Son in law Festival
89-91 unknown view
VIII The Durga Puja Festival
92-132 unknown view
IX The Kali puja Festival
133-148 unknown view
X The Festival of Cakes
149-152 unknown view
XI The Saraswati Puja
153-155 unknown view
XII The Holi Festival
156-161 unknown view
XIII Caste
162-181 unknown view
XIV A Brahman
182-194 unknown view
XV The Bengali Babu
195-212 unknown view
XVI The Kabiraj or Native Physician
213-219 unknown view
XVII Hindoo Females
220-231 unknown view
XVIII Polygamy
232-241 unknown view
XIX Hindoo Widows
242-251 unknown view
XX Sickness Death and Shraddha or Funeral Ceremony
252-278 unknown view
XXI Sati or Immolation of Hindoo Widows
279-285 unknown view
XXII Married Life in Bengal
286-292 unknown view
XXIII The Story of Sabitri Brata or the Wonderful Triumph of Conjugal Love
293-304 unknown view
Appendix
305-318 unknown view
Glossary
319-343 unknown view
Backmatter
1-10 unknown view

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