. Indian life in town and country . vercrowding transcends the Jews quarters inWhitechapel. Under such conditions, caste, andeven custom, have to give way to convenience, or,at least, what is practicable, and domestic privacyin its rural state becomes impossible except for thewealthy. For rents have to be paid, and that isa very disagreeable form of expenditure in a landwhere, although the population is as poor as theproverbial church mouse, yet it is a fact that morethan four fifths of the people pay no rent, but livein their own houses! To summarise the Indian home, you may saythat it afford
. Indian life in town and country . vercrowding transcends the Jews quarters inWhitechapel. Under such conditions, caste, andeven custom, have to give way to convenience, or,at least, what is practicable, and domestic privacyin its rural state becomes impossible except for thewealthy. For rents have to be paid, and that isa very disagreeable form of expenditure in a landwhere, although the population is as poor as theproverbial church mouse, yet it is a fact that morethan four fifths of the people pay no rent, but livein their own houses! To summarise the Indian home, you may saythat it affords shelter from the sun and rain, andsupplies that amount of privacy which walls canafford. But when you seek for comfort, taste, I40 Indian Life and decoration, you seek in vain. In its socialaspect, it is entirely wanting in that spirit whichlends enchantment to our own idea of home life,and leaves us little cause to regret that in his self-ishness and suspicion the native of India is prac-tically always ** not at home to
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