. 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 . to sacrificeone or two Englishmen. This aggravated wickedness at once arousedthe ire and activity of the authorities, who, regardless as they had solong been of the wholesale sacrifice of Hindoo life, could not tolerate theidea of one of their own order being included in the list of mandate w
. 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 . to sacrificeone or two Englishmen. This aggravated wickedness at once arousedthe ire and activity of the authorities, who, regardless as they had solong been of the wholesale sacrifice of Hindoo life, could not tolerate theidea of one of their own order being included in the list of mandate went forth for their suppression; and although many ofthem contrived to elude the vigilance of the parties placed on theirtrack, their final extinction as a body has at length become a fact, andThuggee is now a matter of past history. If India has produced its gangs of desperate thieves and murderers,it also furnishes society with sects of an opposite character. TheCharans and Bhats are peculiar races regarded by all ranks in a sacredlight. These people devote thonselves to the protection of propertyand often of life through dangerous tracts of country where mere physi-cal demonstration would avail but little. Malcolms Central India, vol. ii. p. 130. 424 THE THREE PRESIDENCIES OF A KIDIIUTGAR. The many sections into wliicli native Indian society is split by theinstitution of caste, are sensibly felt by the European, who finds himself obliged, however moderate his wantsmay be, to maintain from a dozen totwenty domestics. The kidmutgarwho waits at table, and has charge ofthe plate, glass, &c., does not meddlewith the food or diinkables, which arein the custody of a higher domestic,a sort of butler. Gentlemen are attended in theirdressing-rooms by a bearer, whoenacts the part of a Hindoo valet jwhilst lower still in th^ grade of do-mestics is the mater, who sweepsout the rooms, cleans the dinner-ser-vice, (fee. The large cities in India have no water laid on in their houses
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