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A Woman of India Being the Life of Saroj Nalini

1929

13A WOMAN OF INDIA The house was within a stone's-throw of the right bank of the river Hooghly a branch of the Ganges which is regarded by the Hindus throughout Bengal as the holiest branch of the sacred Ganga (Ganges) and to which her mother grandmother and the other females of the house went on foot every moring and performed their daily ablution ending up with the usual prayer while s [...] I was then the District Officer of Khulna and the Government steam launch in which I was touring was anchored off the southern limits of the Sundarbans on the edge of the Bay of Bengal. [...] She loved to keep her own cow for the milk and herself looked to its feed as well as to the clealiness of the stables and also to the milking of the cow. [...] The point of Mr Das's cross-examination was that the adoption had actually taken place after the death of the Maharanee and that another woman had persoated the Maharanee at the time of the ceremony and had imitated her voice from behind the screen. [...] She had the wonderful gift of harmonising the duties of her life at home and her social life outside and never allowed the one to stand in the way of the other.
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Pages
144
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.147267
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-6 G. S. Dutt view
Introduction
7-12 C. F. Andrews view
Chapter I Childhood
13-17 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter II Married Life
18-23 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter III Home Duties
24-28 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter IV Indian Womanhood
29-41 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter V Some Traits of Character
42-53 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter VI Ideal of Marriage
54-57 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter VII Love of Music
58-63 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter VIII Patriotism
64-81 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter IX In an Indian Village
82-87 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter X Mahilā Samitis
88-109 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter XI Life in Calcutta
110-112 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter XII A Central Organisation
113-120 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter XIII The Call of the Infinite
121-122 G. S. Dutt view
Chapter XIV A Growing Movement
123-144 G. S. Dutt view

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