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Studies from an Eastern Home

1913

In the early part of the year 1905 a dangerous illness befel Sister Nivedita and this was followed in the autumn of 1906 by a long spell of malarial fever the result of the visit of inquiry and service described in this volume which she paid during the rainy season of that year to Eastern Bengal where the people were suffering miserably from famine and flood. [...] She had unbounded faith in the reserve power of the Indian people and herscall to the younger genertion was a ringing challenge to them to rise not only to the height of the past but to the demand of the future. [...] Here is the neighbourhood of other women for the roof of one zenana Ss often accessible to another ; here are coolness and merry talk in the long hours of summer nights when all the girls of the family steal away to deep where it is also possible to breathe ; and here also is that glimpse of the Ganges that is the lightener of toil and.bringer of refreshment as of worship. [...] For this terrace of ours this hearth of the soul is silent and hidden and distant from the world and whether at minight in the starlight or seated in the daytime within the shadow of the wall or even lingering in the sun about the doorways it is impossible there to forget Crivelli's Angel or to do aught but await passive and hall-expectant the inflood of the Divine upon the heart of ma [...] It takes months of familiarity to enable tho ordinary observer to appreciate to the full the long curves of the veil the dainty poses of the head and the exquisite adjustment of every movement to the drapery.
history
Pages
253
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.142137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Sister Nivedita view
Margaret Noble: in Memoriam
vii-xxx S.K. Ratcliffe view
A Few Tributes
xxxi-xliii Patrick Geddes view
Life in the Hindu Quarter of Calcutta
1-9 unknown view
Our Zenana Terrace
10-15 unknown view
The Hindu Widow and the Zenana
16-25 unknown view
The Sacred Year
26-33 unknown view
Dol-Jatra
34-39 unknown view
Janmastami: The Day of the Great Birth
40-47 unknown view
The Saraswati Puja
48-56 unknown view
The Durga Puja
57-63 unknown view
The Festival of Ras
64-69 unknown view
The Plague
70-81 unknown view
The MediÆVal University Of India
82-86 unknown view
An Old Collegiate Village
87-96 unknown view
The Holy City
97-100 unknown view
Chitore
101-104 unknown view
An Indian Amulet
105-112 unknown view
King Parikshit and the Frog Maiden
113-123 unknown view
Gopaler-Ma: The Mother of the Christ-Child
124-128 unknown view
The Indian Ash or Tree of Healing
129-140 unknown view
The Dread Seven
141-149 unknown view
The Kashmir Shawl
150-158 unknown view
The Land of the Water-Ways
159-188 unknown view
The Northern Pilgrimage
189-206 unknown view
Note to the Northern Pilgrimage
207-208 unknown view
The Ship of Flowers
209-210 unknown view

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