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America Through Hindu Eyes

1918

We read with interest the impressions of the Frenchman Max O'Rell aboutEDITOR'S FOREWORD John Bull and his Island." If the customs and manners of England appear peculiar and odd to the people of the neighbouring country of Prance how much more would the ways and habits of the Americans strike a visitor from the other side of the globe ! It is impossible of course to speak of the people of so v [...] the early history of the United States the present system of government the different political parties the system of slavery that existed before the Civil War the race question which is perhaps the greatest problem of the United States at the present time the practice of lynching that is in vogue in some of the States of the Union the growth of American literature the diffeent religious [...] On account of the mixture of races the hair of the American is not of one uniform colour as the red of the Anglo-Saxon or the black of the Latin people ; neither are his eyes of one particular colour as the light 4AMERICA AND AMERICANS blue of the English or the dark eye of the Italian or Spaniard. [...] One of the statements I heard in America is that the civilization of a country is measured by the amount of sugar consumed ; and that the per capita consumption of sugar being higher in the United States than in any other country the United States is the most civilized country on the face of the earth. [...] She is the only country in the world where the garb 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.
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Pages
369
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143701
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xxviii Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter I. America and Americans
1-12 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter II. America and Americans—Continued
13-26 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter III. The American Woman
27-39 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter IV. My First Impressions of an American University—at Yale (1905)
40-54 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter V. Before Richmond Women’s College (1908)
55-63 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter VI. Random Notes
64-80 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter VII. The American Globe-Trotters in India
81-86 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter VIII. American at-Homes
87-98 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter IX. Things Popular in the United States
99-100 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter X. Tim Alma Mater
101-133 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter XI. The Control Cosmopolitan Club
134-161 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter XII. Titbits
162-195 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter XIII. Reminiscences of a Dead Town
196-205 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter XIV. The Queen of the Antilles
206-224 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter XV. The Queen of the Antilles—Continued
225-251 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Chapter XVI. My Trip to America
252-274 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Appendices
275-316 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view
Indexes
317-334 Victor Narayan, Indu De Majumdar view

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