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India Old and New

1921

It was extended to connote the various stratifications into which Hindu society was settling and in the stringent rules which governed the constitution of each caste and the relations between the different castes the old exclusiveness of tribal customs was perpetuated and intensified To the supremacy which the Brahman as the expounder of the scriptures and of the laws deduced from them and th [...] There and in his annual wanderings through the country he delivered to the poor and to the rich to the Brahman and to the sinner to"n THE ENDURING POWER OF HINDUISM 27 princes and peasants to women as well as to men his message of spiritual and social deliverance from the thraldom of the flesh and from the tyranny of caste. [...] They are to be seen to the present day cut into granite pillars or chiselled into the face of the living rock in almost every part of what was then the Empire of the Mauryas from the Peshawar district in the north to Mysore and the Madras Presidency in the south from the Kathiawar Peninsula in the west to the Bay of Bengal in the east. [...] But they doubtless helped also to stimulate the growth of the more definite forms of anthropomorpism which characterised the development of Hinduism when the ancient ritual and the more impersonal gods of the Vedas and of the Brahmanas gave way to the cult of such very personal gods as Shiva and Vishnu with their feminine counterparts Kali and Lakshmi and ultimately to the evolution of still [...] The first day is a sort of farewell tribute to the waning glory of Buddha and the second to the ancient majesty of the Vedic gods ; but they only prepare the way for the culminating worship on the third day of the terrific figure of Shiva who had already been raised to one of the highest if not the highest in the Hindu pantheon which he still retains
history
Pages
329
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142643
Segment Pages Author Actions
Foreword
i-x Valentine Chirol view
Chapter I. The Clash of Two Civilisations
1-14 unknown view
Chapter II. The Enduring Power of Hinduism
15-45 unknown view
Chapter III. Mahomedan Domination
46-65 unknown view
Chapter IV. British Rule Under the East India Company
66-83 unknown view
Chapter V. The Mutiny and Fifty Years After
84-110 unknown view
Chapter VI. The First Great Wave of Unrest
111-124 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Morley-Minto Reforms
125-138 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Through The Great War to the Great Indian Reform Bill
139-164 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Emergence of M. Gandhi
165-192 unknown view
Chapter X. Bide-Lights on the Elections
193-213 unknown view
Chapter XI. Cross Currents in Southern India
214-226 unknown view
Chapter XII. The Birth of an Indian Parliament
227-245 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Economic Factors
246-267 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Shoals and Rocks Ahead
268-285 unknown view
Chapter XV. The Inclined Plane of Gandiiiism
286-298 unknown view
Chapter XVI. The Indian Problem A World Problem
299-310 unknown view
Index
311-319 unknown view

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