Modern India and the Indians

by Monier Monier-Williams

Overview

This is Volume VIII of eleven in a series on India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1891, this includes a impressions, notes and essays on the modern India of the time including the five gates of India- Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim and Aden and looking at Indian famines, religion, travel accounts of North and Southern India and funeral ceremonies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138862166
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2014
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sir Monier Monier-Williams

Table of Contents

The Five Gates of India—Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Perim, and Aden; First Impressions; The Villages and Rural Population of India; Samadh, Sacrifice, Self-immolation, and Self-Torture; The Towers of Silence, and the Pārsī Religion; Funeral Ceremonies and Offerings to Ancestors at Bombay, Benares, and Gay?; Indian Rosaries; Indian Famines; A Relief Camp; General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Northern India; General Impressions and Notes after Travels in Southern India; Indian and European Civilization in their relation to each other and in their effect on the Progress of Christianity; Indian Muhammadanism in its relation to Christianity, and the prospects of Missionary Enterprise towards it; The Three Religions of India compared with each other and with Christianity; Progress of our Indian Empire. Part I. Progress of our Indian Empire. Part II. Promotion of Goodwill and Sympathy between England and India.