. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . CHARACTER OF INDIAN RACES. 427 tions comprised within the limits of British India, I will endeavourto complete the picture by adding a few lines relative to their HI>DOO WASHERilEX. Were an opinion upon this subject formed from the majority ofbooks published on Indian toi>ics, or from
. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . CHARACTER OF INDIAN RACES. 427 tions comprised within the limits of British India, I will endeavourto complete the picture by adding a few lines relative to their HI>DOO WASHERilEX. Were an opinion upon this subject formed from the majority ofbooks published on Indian toi>ics, or from the oral evidence of travel-lers and others, we should indeed arrive at a most unfavourable con-clusion, and feel inclined to place our Indian fellow-subjects the verylowest in the scale of humanity. But, unwilling to do this, we consultsome of those few who have passed a long life amongst those dwellersin the provinces, who have been beyond the contaminating influenceof the larger towns and cities, free from the inoculation of Indo-Euro-pean morality ; and we there learn other and far better things of thebulk of the people. That falsehood, deception, perjury, timidity, if not actual cowardice,form the leading characteristics of most Hindoos, in all their inter-course with Europeans, there can be but little doubt. Equally true isit that the same race of people can be attached, faithful, honest, and, 428 THE THREE PRESIDEXCIES OF INDIA. on emergencies, brave
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