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India

1925

The popular belief in India is still that the four great castes or divisions of Hindu society proceeded respectively at the creation of mankind from the head and the shoulders and the thighs and the feet of the creative Brahma. [...] Of all the customs which in most of the higher castes at least have acquired the force of law those that regulate marriage are the most immutable for upon marriage depends the continuity of the Hindu family essential to the salvation of the living and the dead in past and future generations. [...] Before the coming of the Mogliuls Nanak who taught the unity of God and condemned the servitude of caste was the founder of religious Sikhism in the Punjab and not until two centuries later did Mohammedan persecutions under Aurangzeb and his successors drive the Sikhs into creating the military organization which they used to carve a powerful Sikh state out of the ruins of the Mogliul Empire. [...] The Portuguese never penetrated far beyond the coast and when they Were at the height of their power in the middle of the XVIth century Southern India was absorbed in the long struggle between the Mohammedan Sultans of Middle India and the great Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar the last one to make a prolonged stand against the inrush of Islamic conquest. [...] Yet the splendour and extravagance of the Moghul Court and of other Mohammedan Courts were not altogether new in the history of India and were equalled and even perhaps exceeded at the Hindu Court of Vijayanagar the last of the great Hindu kingdoms of the south to fall before the sword of Islam.
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Pages
358
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145777
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I. Bird’s-Bye View of India
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Chapter II. The Bedrock of Hinduism
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Chapter III. Mohammedan Domination
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Chapter IV. The Governing Principles of British Rule
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Chapter V. The Flqwing tide of Western Influence
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Chapter VI. The First Wave of Anti-Western Reaction
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Chapter VII. The Partiti0N of Bengal
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Chapter VIII. The Tangle of Western Education
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Chapter IX. The Great War
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Chapter X. The Silent Masses
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Chapter XI. The Industrialization of India
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Chapter XII. The Non-Co-Operation Movement
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Chapter XIII. India’s New Constitutional Charter
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Chapter XIV. The First three years of the Reforms
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Chapter XV. The Reactions of World-Forces on India
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Chapter XVI. The Swarajist Plan of Campaign
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Chapter XVII. The Flight From Swaraj
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Chapter XVIII. The Strength and Weakness of the Raj
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Chapter XIX. A New Stage in the Great Experiment
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Index
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