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Modern India and the Indians. Being a Series of Impressions Notes and Essays

1891

Tangier is a sea-port of Morocco and is now the property of the Moors under the Emperor of Morocco ; the capital of the province Fez being about a hundred miles inland. [...] As to the Musman Laskars the best of them come from Kathiwar (more correctly written Kathi-fivald the aboill of the Kithi tribes) and the neighbourhood of the Portuguese settlement of Daman. [...] Then there are the natives on the bank in their picturesque costumes the sturdy half-naked Arabs at work in the water the strings of camels with their burdens the feluccas in the lagoon with their lateen sails the myriads of -7ater-fowl and in the horizon long lines of flamingoes extending literally for miles and standing motionless like regiments of soldiers in white uniforms. [...] The only difference in the level of the sea at the Mediterranean and Red Sea extremities is mused by the difference in the tides the variation at the Mediteranean end being i8 in. [...] There is also a palace built by the Khedive for the sole purpose of receiving the Empress Eugenie the Emperor of Austria and other royal personages (but no representative from England) during the festivities at the opening of the Canal in November 187o 1. On we steamed through the lake and thence through a cutting to the second or great bitter lake where we anchored for the night soon after s
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Frontmatter
i-iii Monier Monier-Williams view
The Five Gates of India—Gibraltar Malta Port Said Perim and Aden
1-26 Monier Monier-Williams view
First Impressions
27-38 Monier Monier-Williams view
The Villages and Rural Population of India
39-63 Monier Monier-Williams view
Samadh Sacrifice Self-Immolation and Self-Torture
64-79 Monier Monier-Williams view
The Towers of Silence and the Parsi Religion
80-96 Monier Monier-Williams view
Funeral Ceremonies and Offerings to Ancestors at Bombay Benares and Gaya
97-107 Monier Monier-Williams view
Indian Rosaries
108-115 Monier Monier-Williams view
Indian Famines
116-120 Monier Monier-Williams view
A Relief Camp
121-124 Monier Monier-Williams view
General Impressions and Notes After Travels in Northern India
125-179 Monier Monier-Williams view
General Impressions and Notes After Travels in Southern India
180-224 Monier Monier-Williams view
Indian and European Civilization in their Relation to Each other and in their Effect on the Progress of Christianity
225-237 Monier Monier-Williams view
Indian Muhammadanism. in its Relation to Christianity and the Prospects of Missionary Enterprise Towards it
238-245 Monier Monier-Williams view
The Three Religions of India Compared with Each other and with Christianity
246-262 Monier Monier-Williams view
Progress of our Indian Empire. Part I.
263-300 Monier Monier-Williams view
Progress of our Indian Empire. Part II.
301-342 Monier Monier-Williams view
Promotion of Goodwill and Sympathy Between England and India
343-366 Monier Monier-Williams view
Index
367-377 Monier Monier-Williams view

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