. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . nglo-Indian periodicals. In time smallvolumes appeared in India—De-partmental Ditties, The Storyof the Gadsbys, Studies in Blackand White, and Under the Deo-dars. Since then have been pub-lished his chief works, Plain Talesfrom the Hills, and also SoldiersThree, The Courting of DinahShadd, and Other Stories, and thePhantom Rickshaw. Tales notin these volumes are appearing inthe periodicals, and the young au-thors ill-health is the penalty he has had to pay for his rapidauthorship. His works have produced a remarkable bre
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . nglo-Indian periodicals. In time smallvolumes appeared in India—De-partmental Ditties, The Storyof the Gadsbys, Studies in Blackand White, and Under the Deo-dars. Since then have been pub-lished his chief works, Plain Talesfrom the Hills, and also SoldiersThree, The Courting of DinahShadd, and Other Stories, and thePhantom Rickshaw. Tales notin these volumes are appearing inthe periodicals, and the young au-thors ill-health is the penalty he has had to pay for his rapidauthorship. His works have produced a remarkable brevity of his stories, the rapid movement, the unfailing hu-mor, the knowledge of camp-life, the cynical treatment of societyat Simla, and familiarity with the grotesque qualities of the nativecharacter, place Kipling high above all writers in the Englishlanguage who have revealed the lighter shades of India to theAnglo - Saxon peoples. The strong Indian coloring which isfound in all his pages is a new and welcome element in ourcommon English RUDYARD KIPLING. * Andrew Lang, Biographical and Critical Sketch, in American edition of The Courting of Dinah Shadd, and Other Stories, pp. vii-xii. CHAPTER XLVT. THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA. I.—Braiimamsm. Brahmanism is that system of religion which was taught bythe Brahmans, or priestly caste, who predominated over all othercastes of the Aryan conquerors. Even the kings were subordi-nate to the Brahman priesthood. To the Rig Veda, or old col-lection of hymns, were added later three other service books. <<//,? -??///1
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