. Indian life in town and country . IILadies Last ,98 CHAPTER VIIIWomans Wrongs 113 V vi Contents CHAPTER IX PAGE The Indian at Home 127 CHAPTER XIn The Sunshine .141 CHAPTER XIThe Goi^den East .155 CHAPTER XIIOn the Path oe Progress 168 AngIvO Indian Life CHAPTER XIIIThe Land oe Exii,e 183 CHAPTER XIVAngivO-Indian Castes 199 CHAPTER XV IvlEE 2X2 CHAPTER XVIOUT-OE-DOOR LlEE 227 CHAPTER XVIISepia Surroundings 244 CHAPTER XVIIIThe Cry 259 Index 273 ILLUSTRATIONS A Group of Brahmins . . Frontispiece A MUSSUIyMAN AND A BRAHMIN CI^ERK . . 20 View of the Taj Mahai, at Agra ... 32 The
. Indian life in town and country . IILadies Last ,98 CHAPTER VIIIWomans Wrongs 113 V vi Contents CHAPTER IX PAGE The Indian at Home 127 CHAPTER XIn The Sunshine .141 CHAPTER XIThe Goi^den East .155 CHAPTER XIIOn the Path oe Progress 168 AngIvO Indian Life CHAPTER XIIIThe Land oe Exii,e 183 CHAPTER XIVAngivO-Indian Castes 199 CHAPTER XV IvlEE 2X2 CHAPTER XVIOUT-OE-DOOR LlEE 227 CHAPTER XVIISepia Surroundings 244 CHAPTER XVIIIThe Cry 259 Index 273 ILLUSTRATIONS A Group of Brahmins . . Frontispiece A MUSSUIyMAN AND A BRAHMIN CI^ERK . . 20 View of the Taj Mahai, at Agra ... 32 The Harbour at Cai^cutta 58 The Jain Tempi^e at .... 64 A Street Scene in Jeypore 78 Parrati Hii<i. and IvAke at Poonah ... 90 The Benares Ghats 104 The Tumma Musjid and Quadrangi,e at Dei^hi 122The Tomb of Zenab Ai^iya at Lucknow . .138 A Visit to the Camp 164 A Group of Mahomedans Vlll Illustrations PAGE214 A Dak Bungai,ow at Narkunda . Thej Camping Ground 228 The Hoi,y Tank in Bombay 240 An Indo-Mongoi,ian Woman 264. INDIAN LIFE IN TOWN ANDCOUNTRY NATIVE INDIAN LIFE INDIAN LIFE IN TOWNAND COUNTRY CHAPTER I INDIA AS IT IS IT is a habit of current speech to refer to In-dia much as one does to France, Spain, orGermany, conscious only that it is a far moreextensive country. In the map of the world, it isdepicted as an all-red possession, which tends tothe suggestion of a homogeneous land. But it is,in fact, a conglomeration of distinct kingdoms andpeoples, differing as widely in conditions and char-acteristics as Russia and Portugal, or the Nor-wegian and the Turk. The term Indian should convey to the mindthe same cosmopolitan suggestion as the expres-sion ** European. Under this really generic de-signation are grouped numerous races as distinctand individual as the Frenchman and the German,the Dutchman and the Greek. And when we3 4 Indian Life come to discuss * Our Neighbour the Indian, itmust be understood we are arbitrarily makingconcrete what is in the abstract a he
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