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The Desire of India

1908

The melting of the summer snows and the cataclysm of the loosened avalanche probably suggested to the imagination of the bard the ocean falling from 'heaven. [...] The Deccan ( = the South ") with the low-lying coast-lands at the foot of the Ghats is the India of the earlier years of the British Empire. [...] 9. Mention the.most important characteristics of the following parts of India : The Himalayas the Ganges Valley the Punjab the Vindhyan slopes the Deccan the coast-lands of the south. [...] What are the distinguishing marks of the Rajputs the Jats the Bengalis the Gurkhas the people of the North-West frontier the inhabitants of the Ganges Vtdley (AryDravidian) the Marthas the Dravidian races of the south? [...] The wonderful skies the fields in many shades of green and gold the crisp sharp cold of the northern plains and the distant hills draw to themselves the attention of the traveller and cause him momentarily to forget the meanness of the huts and the squalor and insanitation of the village streets where disease and death are 'fostered by the ignorance of the inhabitants.
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Pages
356
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144681
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Cover
i-i Surendra Datta view
Frontmatter
i-xii Surendra Datta view
Chapter I. The Land and its Inhabitants
1-34 Surendra Datta view
Chapter II. The Life of the People
35-71 Surendra Datta view
Chapter III. India’s Search
72-111 Surendra Datta view
Chapter IV. India’s Invaders 1
112-146 Surendra Datta view
Chapter V. Christianity in India
147-191 Surendra Datta view
Chapter VI. Problem and Methods
192-229 Surendra Datta view
Chapter VII. The Indian Church
230-265 Surendra Datta view
Chapter VIII. The Need of India
266-285 Surendra Datta view
Chart of Indian History
286-287 Surendra Datta view
Appendices
288-296 Surendra Datta view
Bibligraphy
297-302 Surendra Datta view
Index
303-i Surendra Datta view

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