Six Months in India, Volym 1Longmans, Green, 1868 |
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... customs of his country - which impose strict seclusion on ladies of position , and oblige them to treat their husbands with a deference bordering on servility and to regard his wife in every respect as an equal . Staying for some months ...
... customs of his country - which impose strict seclusion on ladies of position , and oblige them to treat their husbands with a deference bordering on servility and to regard his wife in every respect as an equal . Staying for some months ...
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... liberally supplied with provisions at the Government bungalow , and that our friend had also brought his contribution , a custom which appears VOL . I. D general and necessary in railway travelling in India . We THE FIRST JOURNEY . 333.
... liberally supplied with provisions at the Government bungalow , and that our friend had also brought his contribution , a custom which appears VOL . I. D general and necessary in railway travelling in India . We THE FIRST JOURNEY . 333.
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... custom , and were anxious to bring Western civilisation into their own country . This meeting was a happy one to all of us , and we felt it to be an omen that we should realise long - cherished hopes and aspirations . CHAPTER II ...
... custom , and were anxious to bring Western civilisation into their own country . This meeting was a happy one to all of us , and we felt it to be an omen that we should realise long - cherished hopes and aspirations . CHAPTER II ...
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... custom of the country . All members of the family are at their own disposal until they assemble for a substantial breakfast at about ten , earlier or later according to circumstances . Sometimes . special excursions are planned for ...
... custom of the country . All members of the family are at their own disposal until they assemble for a substantial breakfast at about ten , earlier or later according to circumstances . Sometimes . special excursions are planned for ...
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... custom in India to ap- point a gentleman of the Civil Service to superintend the jails , most commonly the surgeon . Ahmedabad jail was originally a Mahometan college , and was con- verted to its present purpose in 1820. It is a fine ...
... custom in India to ap- point a gentleman of the Civil Service to superintend the jails , most commonly the surgeon . Ahmedabad jail was originally a Mahometan college , and was con- verted to its present purpose in 1820. It is a fine ...
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Ahmedabad appeared attention Baboo beautiful benevolent Bengal Bombay Bombay Presidency boys Brahmin Calcutta caste Christian civilisation classes condition countrymen course criminal Dadabhai Naoroji David Sassoon desire devoted duty efforts England English ladies enlightened established European evident excellent existing feel female education Female Normal female teachers friends girls give Government Hindoo honour hope idolatry important improvement India influence inhabitants institution instruction intercourse interest jail Keshub Chunder Sen kind kindly labour language Madras Mahometan Marathi Mary Carpenter meeting ment mind Miss Carpenter mission missionary moral morning native gentlemen native ladies Normal School object observe obtain official Parsee persons pleasure present received reformation reformatory religion remarkable residence respect rupees servants Sir Bartle Frere Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy social society superintendent Surat sympathy taught teaching tion vernacular women young zenana
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Sida 74 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Sida 173 - The consequence of my long and uninterrupted researches into religious truth has been that I have found the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral principles and better adapted for the use of rational beings, than any others which have come to my knowledge...
Sida 207 - has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Sida 157 - SOMAJ. 1. I shall worship, through love of Him and the performance of the work He loveth, the Supreme Being, the Creator, the Preserver, the Destroyer, the Giver of Salvation, the Omniscient, the Omnipotent, the Blissful, the Good, the Formless, the One only without a second ; and none of the created objects, subject to the following conditions.
Sida 173 - Here we observe an individual, born and bred in a country benighted under the most gross idolatry and superstition, who, by a just use of that understanding which our gracious Creator has given to mankind to guide them to all truths, having discovered the falsehood of that system of idolatry and the absurdity of those superstitions, conscientiously abandoned both, and thereby subjected himself to inconveniences and dangers of which persons living in more enlightened societies can hardly form an idea....
Sida 157 - ... 4. This sacrifice, and this only, shall I make to existing prejudices. But I shall never endeavour to deceive any one as to my religious opinions, and never stoop to equivocation or hypocrisy, in order to avoid unpopularity.
Sida 193 - IV . of this Act, may be punished with whipping in lieu of any other punishment to which he may be liable under the Indian Penal Code.
Sida 174 - Blessed with the light of Christianity, he dedicates his time and his money not only to release his countrymen from the state of degradation in which they exist, but also to diffuse among the European masters of his country, the sole true religion — as it was promulgated by Christ, his apostles and his disciples.
Sida 61 - The existence of such a class of men cannot possibly be disputed. They regard the Natives as one of the vilest nations on earth, hopelessly immersed in all the vices which can degrade humanity, and bring it to the level of brutes. They think it mean even to associate with the Natives.
Sida 171 - Without disputing the authority of his father, he often sought from him information as to the reasons of his faith. He obtained no satisfaction ; and he at last determined, at the early age of fifteen, to leave the paternal home, and sojourn for a time in Thibet, that he might see another form of religious faith.