. Indian life in town and country . d about the streets and railway stationsand sold in the bazaars. This betokens a revolu-tion in religious sentiment, for the typhoid germswhich Western nations believe to lurk in foulwater are not so dreaded as the spiritual pollutionthe pious Hindu conceives he must be subjectedto by the use of the purest, ay, of distilled, water,touched by a Christian. In the same way withice, essentially an Knglish luxury, and utterlyforeign to the native of India. There are ice-factories in most of the large towns in the country,and you may often see an Aryan brother suc
. Indian life in town and country . d about the streets and railway stationsand sold in the bazaars. This betokens a revolu-tion in religious sentiment, for the typhoid germswhich Western nations believe to lurk in foulwater are not so dreaded as the spiritual pollutionthe pious Hindu conceives he must be subjectedto by the use of the purest, ay, of distilled, water,touched by a Christian. In the same way withice, essentially an Knglish luxury, and utterlyforeign to the native of India. There are ice-factories in most of the large towns in the country,and you may often see an Aryan brother suckingaway at his farthings worth quite is a luxury that has entered into native lifewithin the last few years, as the tomato and ban-ana have in the West. But whilst such innova-tions mean nothing to the Anglo-Saxon, exceptan increase of his blessings, they imply the snap-ping of another link in the fetters of caste. Mybearer aforesaid, who declined the boots, came inafter years habitually to pilfer my snow, in which. Caste 33 were laid to cool such abominations as tinnedbrawn made of calves heads, the very mention ofwhich would have sent him flying to holy Gungatwenty years before. (And I may here paren-thetically mention that in the hill district in whichI lived, on the slopes of the Himalayas, I was al-ways able to get a load of snow down from themountains, even in the hottest weather, thoughthe mercury might register 103 degrees in myverandah!) With regard to umbrellas, thereby hangs an-other tale. The umbrella was as great a sign ofpresumed gentility in India as a silk hat and pairof gloves in London. When I first went to India,thirty years ago, a rising native thought twice be-fore committing himself to the responsibilities ofcarrying an umbrella, and it was the etiquette tofurl it in the presence of a superior. I have seenold Anglo-Indians of the pre-Mutiny period al-most go into a fit because in passing strange na-tives on the high-road they were not comp
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