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Linguistic and Oriental Essays (Written from the Year 1846 to 1878)

1880

India was left to the government or rather the migovernment of the remnant of the Pathan dynasties till in the person of Baler his lineal descendant arose the star of the imprial house of Delhi miscalled the house of the Moghals. [...] The pious Hindu will find few remnants spared by the hand of time and man to recall to him the former splendour of the princes of the country who first opposed the torrent of Mahometan invasion ; but to him the face of the country the streams and plains are sacred as the cradle of the Indian branch of the Arian family and of the Vedic literature and possess an interest which no time can effa [...] The wide and capacious semi was not rained for the protection of the friendless traveller or the recetion of the wares of the enterprising merchant ; the garden was not planted and the well was not dug for the wayfarer ; but for the u e of the emperor and his nobles when their occasional presence honoured and laid waste the unfortunate villages on the route. [...] Such is Amritsar the child of the Sikh faith which has thriven amidst the decadence of empire the confusion of civil war and the assaults of foreign invasion ; to whom every event appears to have brought some advantage for the fall of the nationality and religion of the Sikhs hurt her not the sack of Delhi brought her hundreds of fresh citizens and the opening out of new lines of road broug [...] They understood as little what they heard as the peasantry of England do the dogmas of the Athnasian Creed or the anathemas of the Commination ; a bull-headed conservatism prevented the priesthood from anticipating the intelectual storm ; but as the appearance of Mahomet took place at the time of the deep degradation of the Greek Church and as Luther protested against the errors of the Ro
philosophy religion
Pages
505
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142877
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xii Robert Cust view
Chapter I. The Countries Betwixt the Rivers Satlaj and Jamna in North India
1-23 unknown view
Chapter II. Sikhland Or the Country of Baba-Nanak
24-55 unknown view
Chapter III. The Ramayana : a Sanskrit Epic
56-106 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Religions of India
107-143 unknown view
Chapter V. The Languages of the East Indies
144-171 unknown view
Chapter VI. The Collector of Land-Revenue in India
172-197 unknown view
Chapter VII. Civil Justice in the Panjab
198-223 unknown view
Chapter VIII. An Indian District During a Rebellion
224-251 unknown view
Chapter IX. A Tour in Palestine
252-288 unknown view
Chapter X. Mesopotamia
289-313 unknown view
Chapter XI. Egyptology
314-341 unknown view
Chapter XII. The Phenician Alphabet
342-369 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Monumental Inscriptions in All Parts of the World
370-410 unknown view
Chapter XIV. The International Congresses of Oriental Scholars
411-459 unknown view
Chapter XV. Oriental Scholars
460-481 unknown view
Index
482-484 unknown view
Trubner’s Oriental Series
i-viii unknown view

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