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A Hindu’s Reminiscences of America

1916

On account of this mixture of races the hair of the American is not of a uniform colour as the red of the Anglo-Saxon or the black of the Latin people ; neither are his eyes of one particular kind as the light blue eye of the English or the floating eye of the Irish or the dark eye of the4 REMINISCENCES OF AMERICA Italian or Spaniard. [...] and there also you will be toldAMERICA AND AMERICANS 7 that the statue of Washington in the Capital Park is the best not only in Virginia not only in the United States but there also the same expression the best in the world." Forget the old world for the time being. [...] She is' the only country in the world where the garit 'of the labourer is the garb of the victor in life and the farmer of to-day is the head of the State to-morrow. [...] She is like the plant of the forest that can stand the hail and the rain and the wind and the storm depending on nature alone for her growth and development without the protection and the fosteing care of man. [...] The northern woman is in her literary mood ; she is Minerva the Goddess of Wisdom.) In the west the American woman impresses the spirit ; in the south she impresses"Ti' AMIORICA/N 'WOMAN 428 the heart ; in the north she impresses the mind.
history
Pages
118
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.141777
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editoe’s Foreword
i-xii Indu De Majumdar, Victor Narayan view
Chapter I. America and Americans
1-10 unknown view
Chapter II. America and American—Continued
11-19 unknown view
Chapter III. The American Woman Through Hindu Spectacles
20-29 unknown view
Chapter IV. My First Impressions of an American University—At Yale (1905)
30-41 unknown view
Chapter V. Before Richmond Women’s College 1908
42-51 unknown view
Chapter VI. Cornell at-Homes 1906-1907
52-62 unknown view
Chapter VII. A Dead Town in the Undeveloped South
63-69 unknown view
Chapter VIII.Random Thoughts
70-81 unknown view
Chapter IX.The American Globe Trotters in India
82-87 unknown view
Chapter X.Things Popular in the United States
88-89 unknown view
Chapter XI.My Trip to the United States
90-106 unknown view

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