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Hindu Manners Customs and Ceremonies

1906

The Abbe's description might be compared with the experience of the modern Hindu who will find that while the influence of English education is effecting a quiet and profound change and driving the intellectual and physical faculties of the people into fresh grooves the bulk of the people whom that influence has not reached have remained substantially unaltered since the time of the French Mis [...] The reports sent from India by the Peke Cceurdoux (1787) and published by Barthelemy in the Memoirs of the French Academy the letters of the Porevi PREFATORY NOTE Calmette (1733) and of the Pere Pons (1740) are full of curious information anticipating on many points the later discoveries of Sir William Jones and other members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal founded in 1784. [...] I am of opinion that in a political point of view the information which the work of the Abbe Dubois has to impart might be of the greatest benefit in aiding the servants of the Government in conducting themselves more in unison with the customs and prejudices of the natives.' The purchase of the MS. [...] t have now the honour of submitting to the Board the reply of the Abbe Dubois to a reference which I made to him on this subject and it will thence be perceived that notwitstanding the very favourable manner in which the accuracy of the facts stated in the M8. [...] events and duration of the different dynasties : about the heroes of India and their prowess in war ; about the various revolutions which occurred in the country and the circumstances which led to them ; about the beghmings of Hindu polity ; about the discoveries and progress in science and art ; in a word about all the most interesting features of history —all information of this kind is as it
philosophy religion
Pages
780
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143824
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii Abbe Dubois view
Frontmatter
i-xxxiv Abbe Dubois view
Author’s Preface
1-13 Abbe Dubois view
Part I General View of Society in India and General Remarks on the Caste System
14-159 Abbe Dubois view
Part II The four States of Brahminical Life
160-541 Abbe Dubois view
Part III Religion
542-684 Abbe Dubois view
Appendix
685-722 Abbe Dubois view
Index
723-741 Abbe Dubois view
Some Opinions of the Press
i-ii Abbe Dubois view

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