388 Pages
by
Routledge
388 Pages
by
Routledge
388 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is Volume VIII of eleven in a series on India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1891, this includes a impressions, notes and essays on the modern India of the time including the five gates of India- Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim and Aden and looking at Indian famines, religion, travel accounts of North and Southern India and funeral ceremonies.
The Five Gates of India—Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim, and Aden; First Impressions; The Villages and Rural Population of India; Sam?dh, Sacrifice, Self-immolation, and Self-Torture; The Towers of Silence, and the P?rs? Religion; Funeral Ceremonies and Offerings to Ancestors at Bombay, Benares, and Gay?; Indian Rosaries; Indian Famines; A Relief Camp; General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Northern India; General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Southern India; Indian and European Civilization in their relation to each other and in their effect on the Progress of Christianity; Indian Muhammadanism in its relation to Christianity, and the prospects of Missionary Enterprise towards it; The Three Religions of India compared with each other and with Christianity; Progress of our Indian Empire. Part I. Progress of our Indian Empire. Part II. Promotion of Goodwill and Sympathy between England and India.
Biography
Sir Monier Monier-Williams
